Life As Leadership

Douglas Conant is the CEO and Founder of ConantLeadership, a mission-driven community of leaders and learners who are championing leadership that works. He is the former CEO of Campbell Soup and former President of Nabisco, as well as author of the new book The Blueprint: 6 Practical Steps to Lift Your Leadership to New Heights. He is the only former Fortune 500 CEO who is a New York Times bestselling author, a top 50 leadership innovator, a top 100 leadership speaker, and a top 100 most influential author in the world. LEADERSHIP INSIGHTS - A good book needs to be aspirational and approachable. It needs to help the reader lift their sights while also still being touchable. - The key to becoming the leader you are meant to be is your life story. You need to learn how to access this and bring it to life. - Your leadership approach must be developed and implemented in a way that will fit into the culture where you are leading. - Forget perfection. Try. Learn. Iterate. - The best way to be a more effective lea