Author: Douglas Conant

Quotes

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.

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.

- Douglas Conant

The corporate world has the resources to improve the world. It's where people live and work.

The corporate world has the resources to improve the world. It's where people live and work.

- Douglas Conant

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.

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.

- Douglas Conant

Extroverts may get places faster, but for introverts it's all about working at the pace you need and, at the end of the day, performing at your best.

Extroverts may get places faster, but for introverts it's all about working at the pace you need and, at the end of the day, performing at your best.

- Douglas Conant

I have a foundational belief that business results start with culture and your people.

I have a foundational belief that business results start with culture and your people.

- Douglas Conant

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.

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.

- Douglas Conant

There's no evidence that large, diversified food companies win over time.

There's no evidence that large, diversified food companies win over time.

- Douglas Conant

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