A Conversation With PepsiCo C.E.O. Indra Nooyi (Ep. 316 Update)

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🗓️ 7 August 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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One of the world’s biggest and best-known companies just announced that its C.E.O. would be stepping down in the fall. We interviewed her as part of our series “The Secret Life of a C.E.O.," and we thought you might like to hear that episode again, or for the first time if you missed it back then.

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0:00.0	One of the world's biggest and best known companies, PepsiCo, announced on August 6th that
0:11.8	its CEO, Indra Nui, would be stepping down in the fall.
0:15.2	We interviewed Nui in 2017 as part of our series The Secret Life of a CEO, and we thought
0:21.0	you might like to hear that episode again, or for the first time, if you missed it back
0:24.6	that.
0:26.5	Indra Nui of PepsiCo is one of the most prominent female CEOs in the world and one of the most
0:32.0	accomplished.
0:33.2	But Nui herself isn't hugely visible, which seems to be just how she likes it.
0:39.1	She's not flashy, just smart, reliable, forward looking, and just about any other positive
0:45.6	adjective you can come up with.
0:47.1	If CEOs got reviews like on Amazon, this one would have five stars.
0:52.6	Some people who shop for CEOs for a living, like David Rubenstein, the Carlisle Group.
0:58.2	I've known her for quite a while, and I think she's done a spectacular job.
1:01.6	From other members of the relatively tiny group of women who run big companies, like former
1:07.0	tech CEO Carol Bartz.
1:09.1	Anytime we can put up someone like her, hold her up as an example of what females can do,
1:16.5	and she did.
1:17.5	She did things against the, I don't want to say advice, but against popular opinion.
1:23.3	She's been very strong.
1:25.5	And from professional CEO Watchers, like Jeff Sondonfeld, at the Yale School of Management.
1:30.9	She wants to delegate authority for others to grow and allow them to make some mistakes.
1:36.6	That she knows she could have prevented.
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