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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: 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: 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: 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: Amazon's customer obsession surpasses PepsiCo's consumer focus
“So, I've never been part of such a customer-obsessed company, ok? PepsiCo was consumer-focused, but these are customer-obsessed companies, first.”
Nooyi: 10% female CEOs is not real progress given MBA demographics
“You know, when you're at 10%, it's not really progress because 50% of the MBA graduates are women. Ok, so somewhere the pipeline is leaky.”
Indra Nooyi: Dating after getting married supported her lasting marriage
“Maybe that's the reason we're happily married, because we started to date each other after we got married. And we started to discover each other after we got married. So we had that long process of discovery. And in spite of that, we kind of liked each other, …”