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Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader

source: - "Together with Business Studies XI". Book by Rachna Sagar (p. 225), 2016.

Topics: People, Leader, Earth, Women Leadership, Great Leadership

quote leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder but if you can get people indra nooyi Quotes

Every year in consulting is like three years in the corporate world because you have multiple clients, multiple issues - you grow so much.

Topics: Issues, Years, Clients, Consulting, Corporate World

The distance between number one and number two is always a constant. If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the organization gets pulled up with you. That is a big lesson. I cannot just expect the organization to improve if I don't improve myself and lift the organization, because that distance is a constant.

Topics: Distance, Organization, Two, Improving Yourself

Anything that's done to address unemployment in terms of massive stimulus spending is going to exacerbate deficits. And anything that's done to address deficits in the short-term is going to exacerbate unemployment

Topics: Unemployment, Done, Addresses

The one thing I have learned as a CEO is that leadership at various levels is vastly different. When I was leading a function or a business, there were certain demands and requirements to be a leader. As you move up the organization, the requirements for leading that organization don't grow vertically; they grow exponentially.

Topics: Moving, Organization, Leader

There is nothing like a concrete life plan to weigh you down. Because if you always have one eye on some future goal, you stop paying attention the the job at hand, miss opportunities that might arise, and stay fixedly on one path, even when a better, newer course might have opened up.

Topics: Jobs, Eye, Opportunity, Missing Opportunity, Future Goals

The biological clock and the career clock are in total conflict with each other.

source: - "Why Aren't Men Asked If They Can 'Have It All'?". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. July 8, 2014.

Topics: Careers, Conflict, Clock, Biological Clock

I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else

Topics: Organization, Important, Insane, Sweating

When I was president of the company, I said, 'Okay, I can do this - piece of cake.' Then when you are the CEO, the responsibilities multiply enormously because you worry about everything.

Topics: Responsibility, Cake, Worry

At the end of the day, don't forget that you're a person.

source: - "Sun Tzu for Women: The Art of War for Winning in Business". Book by Becky Sheetz-Runkle, December 18, 2010.

Topics: Motivational, The End Of The Day, Forget

We pretend we have it all. We pretend we can have it all.

Combating climate change is absolutely critical to the future of our company,Green Cooler customers, consumers-and our world. I believe all of us need to take action now. PepsiCo has already taken actions in our operations and throughout our supply chain to 'future- proof' our company-all of which deliver real cost savings, mitigate risk, protect our license to operate, and create resilience in our supply chain.

Topics: Real, Taken, Believe, Supply Chain, Cost Savings

Most importantly, we want to create a company where every employee can bring their whole selves to work.

Topics: Self, Want, Employee

I'm very honest - brutally honest. I always look at things from their point of view as well as mine. And I know when to walk away.

Topics: Views, Looks, Honest, Brutally Honest

Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent.

Topics: Doe, Assuming

If I hadn't had mentors, I wouldn't be here today. I'm a product of great mentoring, great coaching... Coaches or mentors are very important. They could be anyone-your husband, other family members, or your boss.

Topics: Husband, Boss, Coaching

When I grew up there was no web, blogging or tweeting. In fact, where I grew up there was not even television! I met a lot of my friends in school and in college, and they are still my friends today.

Topics: School, College, Television

Most companies target women as end users, but few are effectively utilizing female employees when it comes to innovating for female consumers. When women are empowered in the design and innovation process, the likelihood of success in the marketplace improves by 144%!

source: - "Sports: By Women and For Women" by Indra Nooyi, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 13, 2013.

Topics: Design, Innovation, Female, Utilizing

I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president

Topics: Mother, Dream, School

But the good news was that my elder sister refused to get married straight away and I couldn't get married until she did so I had the licence to go off and dream

Topics: Dream, News, Married

When you assume negative intent, youre angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response.

source: - "The best advice I ever got". Fortune Interview, archive.fortune.com. 2008.

Topics: Emotional, Negative, Assuming

Take a stand. Be known for your courage and confidence.

My father was an absolutely wonderful human being. From him I learned to always assume positive intent. Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent.

Topics: Powerful, Father, Doe

PepsiCo did not have a woman in the senior ranks, nor a foreign-born person who was willing to think differently

Topics: Senior, Thinking, Born

An important attribute of success is to be yourself. Never hide what makes you, you.

Topics: Being Yourself, Passion, Important

Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent. You will be amazed at how your whole approach to a person or problem becomes very different.

Topics: Doe, Different, Assuming

Just because you are CEO, don't think you have landed. You must continually increase your learning, the way you think, and the way you approach the organization. I've never forgotten that.

source: - "How Pepsi’s Indra Nooyi Learned To Be A CEO". Interview with Gary Burnison, www.fastcompany.com. April 29, 2011.

Topics: Thinking, Organization, Way, Business Leaders

I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.

Topics: Yale, Boston, Years, Consulting

There will never be a replacement for that ongoing physical contact. But I don't think blogging is meant to replace the face-to-face of friendships and meetings. Blogging is a way to keep in touch with a larger group of people on an ongoing basis, in a more efficient way.

Topics: Thinking, People, Groups

My guilty pleasures are the websites where you can look at the fashions and see how different outfits will look. You can even take a picture of yourself and download it and play with the fashions! I love playing with these websites to see what I can learn.

Topics: Fashion, Play, Different, Guilty Pleasure, Outfits

I think innovation as a discipline needs to go back and get rethought and revived. There are so many models to talk about innovation, there are so many typologies of innovation, and you have to find a good innovation metric that truly captures the innovation performance of a company.

Topics: Thinking, Discipline, Innovation, Typology

Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.

Topics: Real, Information, Way

As a leader, I am tough on myself and I raise the standard for everybody; however, I am very caring because I want people to excel at what they are doing so that they can aspire to be me in the future.

source: - "Together with Business Studies XI". Book by Rachna Sagar, p. 225, 2016.

Topics: Positive, Caring, People

Women helping each other - coaching, mentoring, and providing tips - is a great way for us to be our own force.

source: - Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

Topics: Coaching, Way, Helping, Helping Each Other

The glass ceiling will go away when women help other women break through that ceiling.

Topics: Helping Others, Glasses, Break Through, Glass Ceiling

I wouldn't ask anyone to do anything I wouldn't do myself.

Topics: Asks

If you give up the guilt, that's a huge load off your shoulders.

source: - Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

Topics: Giving Up, Guilt, Shoulders

Market growth alone doesn't give you enough tailwind. You have to create your own. The way to do that is by designing products for consumers that wow them.

source: - "Dynamic Duos: PepsiCo’s Indra Nooyi And Mauro Porcini On Design-Led Innovation". www.fastcodesign.com. September 23, 2013.

Topics: Giving, Design, Growth

My parents made us dream that we could be anyone that we wanted to.

Topics: Dream, Parent, Made

What i would not do is flaunt my Indianess by wearing a saree to work everyday, because it distracts from the Job. So, i would not do that. When in Rome, do as the Romans do. Social events are different. If i feel comfortable in a saree for a social event, I wear it.

source: - "Personal side of Indra Nooyi". Interview with Nandan Nilekani, economictimes.indiatimes.com. February 7, 2007.

Topics: Social Events, Sari

Lots are written about how 'she shows up at board meetings in the saree.' My God, I have never worn a saree to board meetings; people play it out in different ways. I think I have never shied away from the fact that I am an Indian, and I don't intend to, but you can be at home with both cultures.

source: - "Personal side of Indra Nooyi". Interview with Nandan Nilekani, economictimes.indiatimes.com. February 7, 2007.

Topics: Sari, Board Meetings

I don't think women can have it all. I just don't think so...My husband and I have been married for 34 years, and we have two daughters. And every day you have to make a decision about whether you are going to be a wife or a mother. In fact, many times during the day you have to make those decisions...We co-opted our families to help us. We plan our lives meticulously so we can be decent parents. But if you ask our daughters, I'm not sure they will say that I've been a good mom.

Topics: Good Mom, Two Daughters

In today's world of blogging and tweeting, conversation has become a bit more staccato. In many ways we're more efficient, but I think the amount of longer conversations that radiated more warmth may have gone down.

source: - Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

Topics: Today's World

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