Doug Conant: ...that becoming a leader was about becoming myself

Nobody Told Me!

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Joining us on this episode is someone we’ve wanted to talk with for a long time. He is Doug Conant, who is an internationally respected business leader who’s served at the most senior levels of Nabisco Foods, Campbell Soup and Avon Products. Doug is the founder of ConantLeadership, which is a mission-driven community of leaders and learners who are championing leadership that works in the 21st century.

Doug is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author whose latest book is called, The Blueprint: 6 Practical Steps to Lift Your Leadership to New Heights.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me.
0:11.9	And I'm Laura Owens.
0:13.5	And joining us on this episode is someone who we've wanted to talk to for a long time.
0:18.5	He's Doug Conant.
0:19.7	He's an internationally respected business leader who served
0:22.7	at the most senior levels of Nabisco foods, Campbell's Soup, and Avon products. Doug is the founder
0:28.5	of Conant Leadership, which is a mission-driven community of leaders and learners who are championing
0:33.6	leadership that works in the 21st century. Doug is also a New York Times and Wall Street
0:38.9	Journal bestselling author whose latest book is called The Blueprint, Six Practical Steps to
0:45.6	Lift Your Leadership to New Heights. Doug, we thank you so much for joining us. Well, I'm excited
0:51.3	to be here. Thank you for having me. We wanted to start it off by getting your
0:55.6	definition of leadership. What is it in your view? Well, believe it or not, I've actually thought about
1:03.5	this a little bit. My definition of leadership is it's the art and the science of influencing people
1:10.6	in a specific direction.
1:13.0	It's not it is these are human beings we're trying to influence and there's an art and a
1:19.3	science to it just like there's an art and a science to being a good teacher or being a good
1:23.2	parent or being a good podcast host. And so you need to know the science, but you also need to
1:31.2	have a feel for the art. How did that art change when everything turned virtual last year,
1:38.5	right before the book came out? Well, right after the book came out, pardon me. Well, right when the book came out.
1:46.3	It's a funny thing.
1:47.6	We launched the book on March 5th on Park Avenue in New York, and on March 6th, we started
1:54.5	canceling the book launch.
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