49 Quotes by Douglas Conant

The packaged food business environment is very Darwinian. You're fighting for survival every year; you evolve and grow or you die. It's really that simple.

People lead complicated lives and aren't hanging on your every word or the company mission statement. You have to become a broken record of your expectations of the organization and show people why it is relevant and how it works in specific ways.

If you cultivate a relationship in a genuine, thoughtful way, people will be more inclined to want to help you even though they don't have to help you.

The action is in the interaction.

If you have people who are high-performing working for you, it's so easy to do your job. Otherwise, you can't even agree on the time of the meeting or who will bring the coffee.

Courage means feeling all those hard human emotions - all that uncertainty and anxiety - and getting the job done anyway.

You can't talk your way out of something you behaved your way into. You have to behave your way out of it.

To win in the marketplace you must first win in the workplace.

Integrity means having the courage to do what is right, and what is aligned with your values, no matter the situation.