There is power in helping people get excited about what they do and inspiring and motivating them to unleash their full potential.
I think leadership is service and there is power in that giving: to help people, to inspire and motivate them to reach their fullest potential.
For us, giving back is not an extracurricular activity.
I've bought companies in response to the seismic shifts - the consumer preference for food and health and well-being and a gravitation toward more fresh and natural and organic.
Not every great idea needs to be Campbell-generated. It's clear that partners and vendors and other external sources will generate innovative ideas for us.
It is not about finding a work-life balance, but, rather, it's about work-life integration. I've learned to integrate my work and life so that the two exist as harmoniously as possible and priorities can be set.
The single most important ingredient in the recipe for success is transparency because transparency builds trust.
We need to be in front of consumer trends and translate those trends into insights and foresights.
There are going to be priorities and multiple dimensions of your life, and how you integrate that is how you find happiness.
The path to diversity begins with supporting, mentoring, and sponsoring diverse women and men to become leaders and entrepreneurs.
People need to be in charge of their development plan. They need to seek out their sponsors and their mentors and be very strategic.
You can't become a CEO without working hard and delivering results, but that will only take you so far. Building and leveraging strong relationships with mentors and sponsors will take you the rest of the way.
Networking is working.
Sustainability is important because we all are responsible to nourish our planet. And real food should be delicious, safe, affordable, and accessible to all. All without compromise.
Consumer preferences for food have changed... Changed radically. I call them seismic shifts.
The best thing you can do as a leader when people are pressed is get the obstacles out of their way.
I purposely put myself in new, stressful situations so that I can continuously learn.
Leadership is service to others.
Most corporations have human-resources processes that involve discussions with your manager, performance evaluations, calibrations for performance and potential succession planning.
My parents had job jars because my father would say, 'Kids today have too much time, too much money and no responsibility. You're going to have no time, no money and a lot of responsibility.'