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India is a country with huge potential, and it remains an attractive high priority market for PepsiCo. We believe we have only scratched the surface of long term growth opportunities that exist for PepsiCo and our partners.
Indra Nooyi / Business Person
Attractive
Partners
Remains
Term
High Priority
Scratched
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Do you remember campaigns like 'Keep America beautiful'? What about 'Buckle up'? I believe we need an approach like this to attack obesity. Let's be a good industry that does 100% of what it possibly can - not grudgingly, but willingly.
Indra Nooyi / Business Person
Campaigns
Obesity
Attack
Willingly
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I spent some time at a university for traditional Chinese medicine. There's a resurgence of people eating according to traditional Chinese medicine. So our challenge is, How do you marry traditional Chinese medicine with PepsiCo's products?
Indra Nooyi / Business Person
Chinese
Medicine
Products
Resurgence
Traditional
According
Marry
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Before blogs, it was all about physical presence. We used to send out videos and audiotapes to communicate. Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.
Indra Nooyi / Business Person
Blogging
Communicate
Dump
Information
Internet
One Way
Real
Used
Allow
Time Internet Information
Before
Conversations
Engage
Opposed
Physical
Presence
Real Time
Send
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My guilty pleasures are the websites where you can look at the fashions and see how different outfits will look. You can even take a picture of yourself and download it and play with the fashions! I love playing with these websites to see what I can learn.
Indra Nooyi / Business Person
Different
Fashion
Guilty
Outfits
Play
Download
Fashions
Love Look Yourself
Websites
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BlogHer is an incredibly important conference because it really taps into the power of women. It gives women an ability to do what they do - take care of the home, go to work - and, at the same time, spread their power through the power of the digital world.
Indra Nooyi / Business Person
Digital
Digital World
Spread
Take Care
Time Work Power
Conference
Work Time Women
Incredibly
Same Time
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What i would not do is flaunt my Indianess by wearing a saree to work everyday, because it distracts from the Job. So, i would not do that. When in Rome, do as the Romans do. Social events are different. If i feel comfortable in a saree for a social event, I wear it.
Indra Nooyi / Business Person
Jobs
Comfortable
Everyday
Rome
Event
Work Feel Comfortable
Wear
Romans
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Most companies target women as end users, but few are effectively utilizing female employees when it comes to innovating for female consumers. When women are empowered in the design and innovation process, the likelihood of success in the marketplace improves by 144%!
Indra Nooyi / Business Person
Women
Design
Consumers
Female
Innovation
Likelihood
Marketplace
Process
Target
Users
Utilizing
Women Are
Companies
Effectively
Employees
Few
Improves
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There will never be a replacement for that ongoing physical contact. But I don't think blogging is meant to replace the face-to-face of friendships and meetings. Blogging is a way to keep in touch with a larger group of people on an ongoing basis, in a more efficient way.
Indra Nooyi / Business Person
Blogging
Contact
Efficient
Face To Face
Faces
Meetings
Ongoing
People
Thinking
Keep People Will
Touch
Basis
Meant
People Way Will
Friendships
Group
Physical
Replace
Replacement
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I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president
Indra Nooyi / Business Person
Dream
Mother
School
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I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.
Indra Nooyi / Business Person
America
Boston
Consulting
Excellent
Half
Permission
Scholarship
Six
Study
Yale
Applied
Asked
Encouraged
Group
Half Years
Worked
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I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.
Indra Nooyi / Business Person
Dream
Marriage
Achieve
Becoming
Catholic
Catholic School
Grew
Household
Mother
President
Prime Minister
Roman Catholic
Said
School
Arrange
Hindu
Encourage
Minds
Roman
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I think innovation as a discipline needs to go back and get rethought and revived. There are so many models to talk about innovation, there are so many typologies of innovation, and you have to find a good innovation metric that truly captures the innovation performance of a company.
Indra Nooyi / Business Person
Company
Discipline
Innovation
Models
Needs
Thinking
Captures
Performance
Metric
Revived
Truly
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There is nothing like a concrete life plan to weigh you down. Because if you always have one eye on some future goal, you stop paying attention the the job at hand, miss opportunities that might arise, and stay fixedly on one path, even when a better, newer course might have opened up.
Indra Nooyi / Business Person
Jobs
Opportunity
Eye
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By five or six, when the heels start to hurt, I kick off my shoes and walk bare feet. But that's not a big deal. Nobody else is at the office at that time, and as for singing loudly, I don't sing loudly. I might hum a tune at times when I am thinking about something, but that's all fine.
Indra Nooyi / Business Person
Bare Feet
Big Deal
Heels
Shoes
Time Start Thinking
Time Thinking Walk
Bare
Hum
Loudly
Nobody Else
Tune
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When I talk football with my friends, I don't talk about Tom Brady's hair. I talk about how he handles the blitz, or how he runs his offense. I talk as a fan. I don't want pink jerseys, and I don't want dumbed-down content. I want to be treated as a real fan - because I am proud to be one.
Indra Nooyi / Business Person
Blitz
Brady
Offense
Content
Pink
Runs
Tom
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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.
Indra Nooyi / Business Person
Big Companies
Doing Good
Environment
Good Things
Millennials
Daughters
Good Great I Am
Companies
Polluting
Realise
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In 1994, when I came to PepsiCo, there were really three businesses. They were soft drinks, which included both bottling and the concentrate company. There were salted snacks - Frito Lay. And restaurants where we had, we all talk of them, Pizza Hut, KFC and a whole bunch of casual dining chains.
Indra Nooyi / Business Person
Bunch
Casual
Chains
Dining
Pizza
Restaurants
Snacks
Drinks
Hut
Included
Lay
Pizza Hut
Soft
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When it comes to women, there has been a tendency to define women in sports in the context of their relationships - they watch games because their husbands watch. They're interested because their kids play a sport. They buy tickets to a sporting event because it's a way to spend time with family.
Indra Nooyi / Business Person
Tickets
Time Family Women
Context
Define
Event
Family Time Women
Husbands
Sporting Event
Tendency
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Lots are written about how 'she shows up at board meetings in the saree.' My God, I have never worn a saree to board meetings; people play it out in different ways. I think I have never shied away from the fact that I am an Indian, and I don't intend to, but you can be at home with both cultures.
Indra Nooyi / Business Person
Home
Different Ways
Indian
Play
Thinking
Worn
Board
Cultures
Intend
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Companies the size of PepsiCo is like running a little republic, there is no question about it. The only difference is that I don't have to worry about the media hounding me every day, on every word that I say. I have a board of directors that runs the country in the interest of the stake holders.
Indra Nooyi / Business Person
Directors
Republic
Size
Board
Me Day Country
No Question
Only Difference
Runs
Stake
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When I was a kid, I would come home from school, throw my bag, go out to play. My daughter comes home from school, throws her bag, goes to play, but sitting in front of the computer because their definition of play has changed. They don't go out to play. They play on the computer with their friends.
Indra Nooyi / Business Person
Daughter
Changed
Computer
Sitting
Bag
Definition
Front
Throw
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When you have to do as much as women do, the Internet allows you to - from home - figure out a way to extend your reach and power in the world. It allows you to do what job you've done traditionally, and create aspirations by carrying on a job and using the Internet to amplify everything you're doing.
Indra Nooyi / Business Person
Amplify
Aspirations
Carrying
Extend
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We are in a bit of a policy box and it's going to require us being willing to give up one of the two, which is it's okay to take on more deficits but lets put in some massive spending. Alternatively to say, 'we're going to go through structural unemployment for a while because we want to address deficits.'
Indra Nooyi / Business Person
Massive
Okay
Spending
Unemployment
Box
Deficits
Lets
Require
Structural
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The one thing I have learned as a CEO is that leadership at various levels is vastly different. When I was leading a function or a business, there were certain demands and requirements to be a leader. As you move up the organization, the requirements for leading that organization don't grow vertically; they grow exponentially.
Indra Nooyi / Business Person
Leadership
Ceo
Function
Leader
Levels
Moving
One Thing
Organization
Requirements
Exponentially
Learned
The One Thing
Vastly
Vertically
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To be a CEO is a calling. You should not do it because it is a job. It is a calling, and you have got to be involved in it with your head, heart and hands. Your heart has got to be in the job; you got to love what you do; it consumes you. And if you are not willing to get into the CEO job that way, there is no point getting into it.
Indra Nooyi / Business Person
Calling
Ceo
Hands
Heart
Involved
No Point
Willing
Job
Consumes
Getting
Got
Head
Point
To Love
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The medical system in the United States is among the best in the world, if not the best. What if we were to make the United States a medical destination? That would bring a lot of people here because there are a lot of sick people around the world. If they can get U.S. treatment, they will take it, but now think about what that will do.
Indra Nooyi / Business Person
Destination
Sick
Treatment
What If
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The distance between number one and number two is always a constant. If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the organization gets pulled up with you. That is a big lesson. I cannot just expect the organization to improve if I don't improve myself and lift the organization, because that distance is a constant.
Indra Nooyi / Business Person
Constant
Distance
Organization
Two
Myself Always Yourself
Myself
Between
Cannot
Expect
Number
Gets
Improve
Lesson
Lift
Pulled
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Combating climate change is absolutely critical to the future of our company,Green Cooler customers, consumers-and our world. I believe all of us need to take action now. PepsiCo has already taken actions in our operations and throughout our supply chain to 'future- proof' our company-all of which deliver real cost savings, mitigate risk, protect our license to operate, and create resilience in our supply chain.
Indra Nooyi / Business Person
Believe
Real
Taken
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I don't think women can have it all. I just don't think so...My husband and I have been married for 34 years, and we have two daughters. And every day you have to make a decision about whether you are going to be a wife or a mother. In fact, many times during the day you have to make those decisions...We co-opted our families to help us. We plan our lives meticulously so we can be decent parents. But if you ask our daughters, I'm not sure they will say that I've been a good mom.
Indra Nooyi / Business Person
Daughter
Family
Leadership
Wisdom
Mom
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