Indra Nooyi
Former CEO, PepsiCo. On 1 show, 2 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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1said about them ↓ Everything Indra Nooyi said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Nooyi: Choosing to work from home limits promotional opportunities
“However, I'm also of the belief, Shane, that if you choose to work from home, male or female, I don't care. If you choose to work from home, you might also want to accept that your promotional challenges may be, your promotional opportunities may be limited.”
Nooyi: Outgoing CEOs should not stay on the board
“I think an outgoing CEO should just leave, should not sit on the board, because then you're sort of curbing what the new CEO can do, because they're now always looking over their shoulder to see if they can take a direction that's different than the CEO sittin…”
Nooyi: Reviews judge men on potential and women on subjective trajectory
“Performance appraisals for men is like, you know, he didn't deliver on all his goals. Yeah, I agree, but the guy's got really, he's got great potential. With the women, it was, she delivered on all her goals, but I think, you know, her future trajectory is not…”
Nooyi: PepsiCo tracked 400 high-potential employees as 'corporate assets' for succession
“I think there's about three or 400 that were corporate assets, and one watched them all the time, because these are people who in 15 years could be CEO.”
Nooyi: Leaders must 'zoom in before you zoom out' on operations
“So my philosophy was Zoom in before you zoom out. So in everything I've done, I always went deep into whatever the business was, the company was, tried to understand things from the ground level. Then I'd zoom out and say, what's missing here?”
Nooyi: Sourced Competitor Plant Satellite Photos via FOIA Request
“If you did an FOI, a Freedom of Information request to the Intelligence Department, and ask them to give you satellite photographs of the plant from different altitudes, they can give you a pretty good picture. And I did that, and in a few days, I got the pict…”
Nooyi: PepsiCo tied executive bonuses to internal stretch goals, not Street guidance
“We always had internally stretch goals, and we promised the street something more reasonable. That way, we never got paid if we didn't make the stretch goals, the bonus. We never paid out bonuses without the stretch goals.”
Indra Nooyi: Work-life balance and harmony do not exist
“There's nothing called balance. What balance? You know, anytime you use the word balance, I think of this beam sitting on a fulcrum that's perfectly still. It doesn't exist. It's juggling all those roles. It's not even harmony. Sometimes it's not very harmonio…”
Nooyi: You cannot become CEO while being the perfect parent or spouse
“But you don't get to be CEO by being the perfect mom, the perfect wife, the perfect everything. You don't. You do the best you can, and that's all I did.”
Nooyi: Business School Strategy Is Taught by People Who Never Ran Companies
“Yes, definitely the latter, because very often strategy is, as it is taught by people who've never run a company, never implemented strategy.”
Nooyi: Crises were tougher for female CEOs due to heightened scrutiny
“And it was even tougher for a female CEO because, you know, women CEOs got a lot more attention than men.”
Nooyi: PepsiCo shielded operating staff from activist investor distractions
“When we had our second activist investor in the stock, it was a crisis for the company because nobody likes to have an activist in the stock. I did a town hall, and I told everybody, I said, look, I'll give you regular updates on the activist. You'll see it on…”
Nooyi: Treat activist investor white papers as free consulting reports
“So why don't we look at this white paper as a free consulting report? And let's pour through it. If he has any ideas that we haven't implemented in the company, let's take those ideas. But we're not going to make big changes to the company just because Nelson …”
Nooyi: Activists with 1-2% stakes should not agitate for board seats
“Oh, 15% or so, 10, 15%, maybe, maybe. But one to two percent, and you try to agitate for a board seat, I think that's really wrong.”
Nooyi: Token diversity prevents organizations from practicing true inclusion
“Usually when you have one or two diverse people in the organization, you can't really practice how to be inclusive.”
Nooyi: Retail shelf presence is owned media that outperforms rented advertising
“When your consumer sees the product on a shelf, that's the media talking to you. So to me, the media you own is very important to the consumer because the media you rent is your TV and your advertising. Many people don't see it. But they see that billboard eff…”
Nooyi: Amazon and Philips corporate cultures have no braggers
“Even Amazon has no braggers. Philips, the other company I said on the board of, the MedTech company from the Netherlands, not at all. Nobody brags. Everybody's talking about what can we do together to move the company forward.”
Nooyi: Conflict-avoidant managers leave underperforming employees misinformed about their status
“People don't like conflict. People don't like to deal with issues directly. They like to beat around the bush and then leave saying, I think I gave the person the message.”
Nooyi: US students had bandwidth for innovation because daily survival was easier
“I was more in awe of them rather than they don't work so hard. It's just that the working hard part was on stuff that Was made easy in the United States.”
Nooyi: Encouraging top talent to leave for outside experience enables boomerang rehiring
“Sometimes selfishly, I look at this and say, I'm actually better off if this person goes and gets this completely different experience, because I can bring them back. So you always look at this in a nice, selfish way. I don't mean in a negative, selfish way. I…”
Nooyi: Executives must master unit-level economics to align with frontline teams
“So if you don't understand the business at the most granular level, you come at it in a very different perspective, and people don't understand you because you're talking in tens of millions and hundreds of billions, and they're like, I'm selling a 25 cent bag…”
Nooyi: In the US, Business Data Is Always Available If You Dig
“And a big lesson I learned is that in the United States, don't ever say the data is not available. Say you didn't look hard enough, because the data is available somewhere.”
Nooyi: PepsiCo required certain managers to maintain 8 to 10 direct reports
“We see certain levels of people have to have at least eight reports or 10 reports.”
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