Indra nooyi a biography
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Indra Nooyi - A Biography
When I first came to the US, I was dirt poor. At Yale, I worked at the reception counter from midnight to five a.m. to make money. When you don't even have clothes for job interviews, all of a sudden life gives you a wake-up call and you realize you have got to work extremely hard to make it happen for you.
Indira Nooyi's meteoric rise and success has been charted by every newspaper and business journal in the world, but how many of us know the person behind the image? The Secret of Success: The Story of Indira Nooyi gives us a rare insight into Nooyi's life, her childhood, the choices she made, the struggles she faced and the lessons she learnt on her way to the top.
The accolades came later, and there were many. In she was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the president of India. In and , Time magazine listed her among the most influential people in the world. In , Forbes named her the third-most powerful woman in business while Fortune ranked her
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Indra Nooyi: A Biography
Taking a sneak peak into the life of former CEO of PepsiCo was like taking a series of mental notes of qualities that one must inculcate. The importance of having a strong foundation is what caught my eye the most. Indra was trained for greatness right from her childhood, not because she was a genius but because she was taught to dream big and develop her self confidence. Humility, persistence, giving all you can to a task, quick decision making, etc, etc. - her life is sprinkled with such qualities right from school till her stint as CEO.
I didn't quite enjoy the book as there are not many anställda insights. It seemed like a collection of interviews. But it certainly coaxed me to look her up in detail and inspired me to borrow few traits from her.
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Indra Nooyi, a business leader and strategic thinker, is widely considered to be one of the top CEOs in the worldfor her leadership of the global behemoth PepsiCo for 12 years. She was the first woman of color and first immigrant to head a Fortune 50 company. Under her leadership, the company increased its profitability while also working to improve environmental sustainability and the healthiness of its food offerings. Nooyi is also a major philanthropist. Her donation to her alma mater Yale School of Management makes her the school’s largest alumni donor and the first woman to have endowed a Chair at a top business school.
Indra Krisnamurthy was born in Madras (now called Chennai), India, on October 28, She grew up in a close family with two siblings, her parents, and her grandparents. Her father was a bank official, and her mother was a house wife. Nooyi’s family was middle class and, like most of their neighbors, devout Hindus and relatively conservative. Nooyi remains close to