Food is art and science. So, you take something out, you have to work with the recipe to make sure that you're providing delicious food with cleaner labels.
Denise Morrison
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.
The single most important ingredient in the recipe for success is transparency because transparency builds trust.
Innovation requires an experimental mindset.
Leadership is service to others.
I think of feedback as constructive, not positive or negative. You choose to do what you want with it.
The leader is the person who brings a little magic to the moment.
You need to set a tone at the top that inspires trust - and encourages open and honest 2-way communication. So you hear the brutal facts, and you listen to the good news and the bad news - so that, in the spirit of continuous improvement, you can make changes.
The path to diversity begins with supporting, mentoring, and sponsoring diverse women and men to become leaders and entrepreneurs.
I see the world through Irish eyes, and they are smiling.
I feel strongly about the need for diversity, and with good reason. I'm from a generation of women that found it exhilarating to shatter the glass ceiling. We viewed obstacles as opportunities and earned our seat at the leadership table.
I know there are no sure bets or overnight miracles.
The attitude of giving a full commitment to the partnership will usually result in getting the same commitment in return.
We must form public-private partnerships to collectively improve children's health.
I'm from a generation of women that shattered the glass ceiling. We didn't wait for doors to open. The lesson I learned is that you need to open some doors for yourself in pursuit of career advancement.
You embrace disruption. I think it's a good thing.
There are going to be priorities and multiple dimensions of your life, and how you integrate that is how you find happiness.
The thing that I learned early on is you really need to set goals in your life, both short-term and long-term, just like you do in business. Having that long-term goal will enable you to have a plan on how to achieve it.
We are exploring creative models to pursue innovation outside the confines of our normal process, taking calculated risks and learning from them.
The things that worked for us in the past wasn't going to work the same way going forward.
We tend to treat eating and diets as one size fits all. But the human body is very personalized.
The best companies will build culturally diverse leadership teams and workforces with divergent backgrounds, perspectives, and ideas.
People are literally tracking everything. People are becoming more empowered and knowing what's going into their body.
Health and wellness does mean different things to different people.
I've always believed consumers have a right to know what's in their food.
I want to treat people the way I like to be treated and be very straight with them.
I believe women need to take charge.
Evolving our culture to operate and think differently is no small task. We are challenging our employees to be the best of both small and big companies - they should operate with the soul and spirit of a startup, while leveraging the scale, resources and capabilities of Campbell - with the goal of ultimately becoming the biggest small company.
The next frontier in nutrition will be about reconfiguring diets according to individual specific physiology, lifestyle, and health goals.
Life's a balancing act. You have multiple roles and goals, and you can do it all - just not all at once.
I think you have to see two steps ahead of things. That's just the way I roll.
I describe my career path as a zigzag, not a ladder.
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.
I talk to my parents a couple of times a week. I talk to my daughters every day.
I was so results-oriented.
You need to be strategic about how you define your leadership journey and where that takes you.
If you want a CEO role, you have to prepare for it with a vengeance.
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.'
I've been preparing to run a big company all my life.
At Campbell's, we're listening to consumers. We recognize that real and healthier food is better for our consumers and our business. Our goal is to be the leading health and well-being food company.
We've navigated a lot of change at Campbell's. The best thing for me to be able to do is to discuss that change with people.
For us, giving back is not an extracurricular activity.
Through the Internet of things, 'connected kitchens' will alert consumers if they're running low on broth and when their salad dressing needs to be replenished.
My mother taught us that ambition is part of femininity and really taught us to have substance but also style.
It's okay to fail if you learn from it.
For me, living a balanced life means nurturing the academic, physical, and spiritual aspects of my life so I can maintain a sense of well-being and self-esteem.
The top principle for disruptive and sustaining innovation is that it has to have a laser focus on customers. Innovation begins with their needs and expectations.
The first step in changing a culture, I believe, starts with the senior leadership team - and with the CEO.
I see more people taking charge of their well-being through the use of data and digital sensors, wearable health bands, and smartphone apps that can track and quantify everything from their heart rate, blood pressure, and sleep quality to steps walked and calories consumed.
The personal mission statement was important for me because I believe that you can't lead others unless you have a strong sense of who you are and what you stand for.
