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Mental Models That Change How You Think | Bill Gurley
- ▶ 7:33 Bill Gurley You're interviewing for a job at P&G or Pepsi out of college, and there's 20 people there, and you're the one that understands the masters of marketing more than the others, and you're able to bring that up in the interview.
Panera Founder Ron Shaich
- ▶ 21:18 Ron Shaich We had everybody from Pepsi and Sara Lee, um, attempt to take us on or buy us out or take it, take us out.
- ▶ 25:50 Ron Shaich You can take, um, soft drinks, uh, once had been local soft drink manufacturers that had become Coke and Pepsi. 2 times in the scene
Former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi: Lessons from the Top
- ▶ 0:13 Shane Parrish How did that candid conversation influence how you ran PepsiCo? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00 Shane Parrish My guest this week is Indra Nooyi, the former chairman and CEO of PepsiCo, who led a global transformation at the company as one of the most remarkable leaders of a generation. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:41 Shane Parrish Has that changed how you, when you were like the CEO of Pepsi, did that change how you developed people, where the best thing for Pepsi might have been for them to stay, but the best thing for them might have been for them to leave? 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:41 Shane Parrish How did that help you at PepsiCo when you were CEO in terms of understanding, you know, the right side of the decimal place at the low level, and then also, you know, 30,000 foot view, setting strategy for a huge company?
- ▶ 27:46 Shane Parrish Obviously, in a company the size of PepsiCo with hundreds of thousands of employees, there's a little bit of politicking going on, but how do you minimize that, and how do you find and promote the best people?
- ▶ 29:21 Indra Nooyi Companies like PepsiCo, at least in my time, I can only talk about the time when I was there, um, you know, we had very good scorecards to measure productivity, uh, spans and layers, uh, and we monitored that constantly. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:01 Shane Parrish You mentioned kids, and one of my favorite stories from your book, and I'm going to read this because I want to make sure I get it right, is when you got promoted to the president of PepsiCo, and you drove home after work, and you were so… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:04 Shane Parrish And when you were CEO of Pepsi, your kids were pretty young.
- ▶ 38:46 Indra Nooyi So, as you go from the bottom layer of managerial positions to the top, think of it, in PepsiCo, in the bottom layer, probably 14, 15,000 people.
- ▶ 41:01 Indra Nooyi Especially for a company like PepsiCo, which has a great leadership development, people came and grabbed them. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:28 Indra Nooyi And I mean, I, my first years at PepsiCo, my early years as CEO,
- ▶ 49:08 Indra Nooyi So from our perspective, if I go into, into the company and say, I want power of one, I want PepsiCo to practice power of one, as opposed to Frito-Lay beverages, I'm not going to say, oh,
- ▶ 52:09 Indra Nooyi PepsiCo was consumer-focused, but these are customer-obsessed companies, first.
- ▶ 53:27 Shane Parrish You've led directly as CEO through many crisis, including, uh, I think you had a food safety scare while you were CEO PepsiCo. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:49 Indra Nooyi I want this company to do well. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:02 Indra Nooyi But he knew the consumer world, he knew PepsiCo, and so, you know, he actually added a lot to the board.
- ▶ 1:00:30 Shane Parrish When you became CEO of PepsiCo, you were the first woman CEO in the S&P. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:16 Shane Parrish Was that what happened when you quit PepsiCo?
- ▶ 1:09:01 Shane Parrish How did that candid conversation influence how you ran PepsiCo? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:12:24 Shane Parrish Steve Jobs inspired the design thinking at Pepsi. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13:45 Shane Parrish I mean, you, you had a conversation with Jobs, you worked with Jeff Bezos on the board of Amazon, where you're like, oh, that's a really good idea, really clever, I wish I would have known that before, or ones that you did implement while…
- ▶ 1:19:32 Indra Nooyi Because PepsiCo's merchandised us perfectly.
- ▶ 1:21:51 Shane Parrish When you look at an aisle of Frito-Lay or PepsiCo products, what, what draws your attention?
- ▶ 1:25:48 Shane Parrish You were involved in a lot of acquisitions, uh, of companies through strategy and through, um, being the CEO of PepsiCo. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:29:05 Shane Parrish If somebody had an unfair advantage in PepsiCo and they were just constantly like knocking it out of the park all the time, what would be the behaviors and traits that that person would have or the skills? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:33:03 Indra Nooyi You know, when I ran PepsiCo, I ran it on that motto. 3 times in the scene
Anna Wintour: Vogue [Outliers]
- ▶ 38:37 Shane Parrish Pepsi pulled her sponsorship.
#116 Jeff Immelt: Leadership In A Crisis
- ▶ 45:01 Jeff Immelt It was me and Ken Chenault from American Express, Sam Palmisano, and then Jenny Romney from IBM, Steve Reimann, and then Indra Newey from Pepsi, and Bill Weldon, and then Alex Gorski from J&J.
#25 Gary Taubes: Is Sugar Slowly Killing Us
- ▶ 15:37 Gary Taubes Pepper first, and then Coca-Cola and Pepsi, and by the early 20th century that these foods have just exploded, and they're everywhere, and all the major food producers that we deal with today that