Hi, it's Bob Safian. You've been hearing me as the host of rapid response in this feed for a few years now,

with short newsy interviews alongside the deeper dives of Masters of Scale. Well, I'm excited to share that rapid response is expanding into its own feed.

We'll be putting out shows twice a week, focusing on the urgent issues that business leaders are dealing with in real time.

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I'll see you on the other side.

So just imagine this big room.

With shiny red floors.

And not much furniture, there's probably one chair in that entire room,

but right in the middle hangs this rosewood swing.

And it's hanging on chains that were built into the wall. That's Indra Newy, former CEO of Pepsico, and that Rosewood swing she's describing

was the centerpiece of her childhood home in Madras, now Chennai in India.

And it's in use all the time because the various women in the house in particular would

come and sit on a swing.

And they'll be chatting away on politics and family,

in gossip, and children's grades. And then when the elders got together, it was all

about, let's match all the horoscopes for the various girls and boys that need to be matched.

And when they were not there, the kids jumped on the swing, and boy, did we have a rocking time?

It just went as high as it could.

All the cousins would sort of pile onto the swing and we'd sing.

We all had the same repertoire songs, the Beatles and Beach Boys and Cliff Richard.

So for about two hours we could sing all voice and

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