Success or Failure !!!??? - Indira Nooyi , CEO of Pepsico
Consider the words of the PepsiCo CEO, Indira Nooyi from Chennai.
"“I hear my own daughters talking about big companies polluting the environment and then I realise they are talking about companies of which one I am running.
“But when I tell them to read the things we are doing, then they realise we are doing good things. ” she observed.
Surely, Pepsico's products DIRECTLY retard the health of many , mainly children and youngsters, in addition to polluting the environment, which Nooyi herself admits . Therefore should she be given credit for her becoming the CEO of PepsiCo !!???
It is high-time,society re-consider distribution of rewards and credits to individuals, whose actions/KARMA must with-stand the test of TIME.
Link :http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/indra-nooyi-attributes-her-success-to-indian-upbringing/article5616314.ece
Consider the words of the PepsiCo CEO, Indira Nooyi from Chennai.
"“I hear my own daughters talking about big companies polluting the environment and then I realise they are talking about companies of which one I am running.
“But when I tell them to read the things we are doing, then they realise we are doing good things. ” she observed.
Surely, Pepsico's products DIRECTLY retard the health of many , mainly children and youngsters, in addition to polluting the environment, which Nooyi herself admits . Therefore should she be given credit for her becoming the CEO of PepsiCo !!???
It is high-time,society re-consider distribution of rewards and credits to individuals, whose actions/KARMA must with-stand the test of TIME.
Link :http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/indra-nooyi-attributes-her-success-to-indian-upbringing/article5616314.ece
The Hindu Jan 25, 2014
Indra
Nooyi attributes her success to Indian upbringing
Indra Nooyi during a session at the annual meeting of the
World Economic Forum in Davos on Friday.— PHOTO: REUTERS
In the midst of business talks and meetings, India-born
Indra Nooyi on Friday recalled how her views underwent a sea change after a
visit to her mother in Chennai soon after she became PepsiCo chief in 2006.
While talking about the need for CEOs to engage and bond
with the employees at a personal level, Ms. Nooyi said, “When I became CEO in
2006, I went to visit my mother in Chennai. The next morning she asked me to
wake up and I said I am on a vacation and want to sleep till noon, but she
refused and said people were coming home.”
“When friends and relatives came, they all told my mother
that she had got a great daughter. But it is not about me, but about my parents
who brought me up so well,” Ms. Nooyi said.
Ms. Nooyi, who is PepsiCo’s Chairman and CEO, is here to
participate in the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting.
“So when I came back, I wrote to parents of all my
directors thanking them for bringing up their respective children so well that
I got them as directors. It was an emotional decision and all of them replied
very emotionally,” she said.
Narrating another incident, Ms. Nooyi said there was an
individual whom the company was trying to hire but he had another offer. Since
the company was very keen on hiring him, Ms. Nooyi said she spoke to the
individual’s mother.
“I called her [his mother] and when he went home, he told
her he had two offers but he would not join PepsiCo. But his mother insisted that he join PepsiCo and he
had to join us,” she said, sending the audience into peals of laughter.
According to the PepsiCo chief, it is bad to see that parents today pay tuition
fees for their children, but do not see their report cards. “I have always insisted
on getting the report cards,” she said.
Talking about the young population, Ms. Nooyi said she has
got “two of them at home and this generation is well-informed.”
“I hear my own daughters talking about big companies
polluting the environment and then I realise they are talking about companies
of which one I am running.
“But when I tell them to read the things we are doing, then
they realise we are doing good things. But millennials are really a great lot,”
she observed.
Social media
On social media, Ms. Nooyi said it had actually made things
worse for people.
“Someone told me that whatever you do, will be in public
domain. It is not easy to accept that whenever we go out, we have to be always
conscious about what we are talking, what we are doing, what we are wearing.
“It is not easy living in that little glass house. Many
people on social media do not have accountability. All of us CEOs are learning
to live in this environment, as this is the real life today. It is like a
reality show for all of us,” she said. — PTI
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/indra-nooyi-attributes-her-success-to-indian-upbringing/article5616314.ece
“Parents
today pay fees, but do not see their children’s report cards”
With social
media, it’s like a reality show for all us, says PepsiCo chief
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