Indra Nooyi: Doing

“Aristotle once said that the unexamined life is not worth living. I think it's time to examine what we do once more in the spirit of a critical friend. Let's pause for a moment to consider what we need to examine.”

Indra Nooyi

CEOs need to change: Indra Nooyi

Life , Thinking , Time

“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. 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.”

Indra Nooyi

Quoted in [Together with Business Studies XI, http://books.google.com/books?id=_XKtUpinyXcC&pg=PA225, Rachna Sagar, 978-81-8137-098-3, 225–]

People , Future

“India needs to grow at 7 to 8 per cent to ensure full employment and we all will do our part to invest in India to make sure India achieves its growth potential.”

Indra Nooyi

Narendra Modi question elicits 'no comment' from PepsiCo chief Indra Nooyi

Parting

“Do you remember campaigns like Keep America Beautiful? What about ‘buckle up’? I believe we need an approach like this to attack obesity. Let us be good industry that does 100% of what is possibly can-not grudgingly, but willingly.”

Indra Nooyi

Her exhortation to her executives with her mantram “Performance with a Purpose” quoted in [Nelson, Debra L., Quick, James Campbell, Organizational Behavior.: Science, the Real World, and You, http://books.google.com/books?id=hSnFaZ9ddnsC&pg=PA99, 9 February 2010, Cengage Learning, 978-1-4390-4229-8, 99–]

Beauty

“There were many times that I felt like a fish out of water, times that I really said to myself, 'do I even fit in.”

Indra Nooyi

Quoted in How PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi gave up cricket for baseball!, 25 March 2012, 18 December 2013, Economic Times http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-05-25/news/31852241_1_ceo-indra-nooyi-bat-and-ball-sport-david-novak,

Fish , Water , Time

“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.”

Indra Nooyi

Top 15 quotes from PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi

People , Future

“[moot issue is that ] we should talk about is not just lessons in leadership or what the leaders need to do today but what can India do to bring those leaders back to India, so India itself can become an even more powerful economy going forward.”

Indra Nooyi

Quoted in "A Learning CEO Can Power Through Tough Times: Indra Nooyi".

“Indra can drive as deep and hard as anyone I have ever met, but she can do it with a sense of heart and fun.”

Indra Nooyi

Roger Enrcio, Chief Executive, quoted in [Runkle, Beck Sheetz-, Sun Tzu for Women: The Art of War for Winning in Business, http://books.google.com/books?id=Q9V9mNj0Wd0C&pg=PA112, 18 December 2010, Adams Media, 978-1-4405-1178-3, 112–]

Sense , Heart

“One such way was to do with her lifelong love of cricket. No one in this country (the US) followed the game, but they did follow baseball, another bat-and-ball sport. So she threw herself into baseball and into the local team, the New York Yankees, reading everything she could on the subject until she could comfortably talk about it.”

Indra Nooyi

Quoted in "How PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi gave up cricket for baseball".

Sport , Reading , Country , Game