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TouchPoints
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TouchPoints

Creating Powerful Leadership Connections in the Smallest of Moments

Jossey-Bass, 2011 mais...


Editorial Rating

8

Qualities

  • Innovative
  • Applicable

Recommendation

You can become a great leader if you take to heart the message and the methods of Campbell Soup Company president and CEO Douglas Conant and executive management training consultant Mette Norgaard. They describe an innovative leadership model based on making the most of “TouchPoints,” those seemingly innocuous but quite powerful interpersonal events that pepper the daily lives of corporate leaders. Many executives resent “pesky” interruptions, but the authors reframe them as golden opportunities for leaders to move their strategic agendas forward via personal connections with their employees. Conant and Norgaard based their approach on the philosophy of “leading in the moment” that Conant developed and used to turn Campbell’s around when it was distressed. getAbstract recommends their book to executives seeking a workable model for creating and honing a personal leadership style.

Take-Aways

  • Wise leaders view interruptions as “TouchPoints,” opportunities to interact with, influence, and lead another person or a group in pursuit of common goals.
  • Each TouchPoint encounter has three parts: a leader, another party and an issue.
  • Leaders initiate TouchPoints by asking how they can help.

About the Authors

Douglas Conant is president and CEO of Campbell Soup Company. Mette Norgaard is a training consultant who works with executive management.


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