Belinda Johnson Quotes

There has to be a willingness to constantly accept critical feedback and rapidly iterate to make things better.

We tell prospective hires, 'If you want an environment that is never going to change, don't come here. This is not the place for you.'

The only way to avoid disruption is to constantly do what you would if you were just starting out.

As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong.

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.

In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.

You can't just keep doing what works one time, everything around you is changing. To succeed, stay out in front of change.

One of the things I benefited from when I started this business was that I didn't know anything. I was just instinct with no preconceived notions. This enabled me to learn and change quickly without having to worry about maintaining any kind of status quo, like some of my bigger competitors.

Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.

There is no single way to train, or do anything well. You have to keep thinking, keep doing things.

An open-minded person running a business might catch a problem faster than a closed-minded person. And when they identify a problem, they can fix it much faster.

It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.

In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don't learn. So the last part to me is the key, especially if you have had some initial success. It becomes even more critical that you have the learning 'bit' always switched on.

I never stop making sure that what I say is the best of what could be said about a particular thing. It's a constant evolution. If I planted a tree one way yesterday, and somebody tells me of a better way to plant a tree, I think, 'You know, they're right, that's better.' Then I change my way to accommodate the new way of planting trees.

My company survives because I've learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.

A mistake is simply another way of doing things.

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

We need to build change in to our systems and let these systems evolve as circumstances change. Change is inevitable, but we need to do a better job of dealing with it, because when we start building huge gleaming monoliths, I think we start getting into trouble.

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

On every job you do, you've got to raise your game. My ambition is to just get better and better every job you do - you should never stop trying to get better. You have to teach yourself new things - I don't think you necessarily learn them from other people because you have your own style of doing things, but hopefully you get better.

You have to stay on top and learn from mistakes.

… in an age of accelerating change, when even the most sophisticated skills are quickly outdated, we will find many allies in the developing world who are coming to understand that the most important skill anyone can learn is the ability to go on learning.

The basic DNA we've got to implant in leaders now is adaptability: not to get wedded to the solution to a particular problem, because not only the problem but the solution changes day to day. Creating people who are hardwired for that is going to be our challenge for the future.

Experience should be a plus as long as it doesn't become complacency. If you say, 'We're not going to change; we didn't do it that way before,' then you've become too old.