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Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing

Indra Nooyi on Leadership, Culture, and Steve Jobs

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing

The Motley Fool

Business, Investing

4.33.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

During her 12-year run as CEO of Pepsi, Indra Nooyi helped the company grow sales by 80%. Despite her success as one of the most powerful women in business, she's happy to be out of the world of “bits and bytes.” Motley Fool co-founder and CEO Tom Gardner caught up with Nooyi to discuss: - Other CEOs she's learned from - Building a culture of ownership - Decision-making as an art and a science Companies mentioned: PEP, AAPL, AMZN, PFE Indra Nooyi's best-selling book is "My Life in Full: Work, Family, and Our Future". Host: Tom Gardner Guest: Indra Nooyi Producer: Ricky Mulvey Engineers: Heather Horton, Dan Boyd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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But I will say something, this is based on my biases from my past.

0:05.4

I don't know how you build a corporate culture until people, unless people come together.

0:10.3

I really don't know.

0:11.9

There's something to be said about the human interaction.

0:14.6

I don't know how you do leadership development unless you have people coming together.

0:17.8

I don't know, you judge people unless you have people actually physically coming together.

0:21.7

The best thing I did when I was CEO across the world, I visited people.

0:26.8

I met them, I shook hands with them, talked to them, saw them in action.

0:31.3

It was just an unbelievable feeling.

0:37.7

I'm Chris Hill and that's Indra Nui.

0:40.4

She joined Pepsi in 1994 as a senior vice president of strategic planning.

0:46.2

Over the next decade, she rose to become president and chief financial officer,

0:50.9

and in 2006 was named CEO, a position she held for 12 years.

0:56.8

Motleyful co-founder and CEO Tom Gardner caught up with her for a conversation

1:02.1

at our company's recent annual meeting.

1:04.5

And we're bringing you part of that conversation today.

1:07.4

They talk about the business leaders she's learned from and her path to the corner office at Pepsi.

1:17.7

What was the process like for you in becoming CEO at Pepsi?

1:20.7

How was the idea introduced?

1:23.0

Were you an applicant? Had that been something that you considered part of your pathway

1:28.1

at different stages along the way at Pepsi and what was that onboarding like?

1:32.8

All Pepsi co-CEOs had run big businesses.

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