Men hold most of the positions of power, and it’s very, very important that they come to the table to talk about how we can make it easier for all family builders, not just women, to integrate work and Anyway, when I was at IIM Calcutta I was a year junior to Nooyi, who was then stylishly skinny unlike her wellfed American avatar. Or perhaps it's just that she has been excessively sampling Pepsi's 'food' products, like the ten yearold daughter of my impecunious household help who is already suffering from child obesity, along with countless other victims of Pepsico's successful implementation of her strategy of targeting so-called Third World countries as "profit centres", given the saturation of her North American home base. The distance between number one and number two is a constant. He meant that when a leader overperforms, the team comes along with him or her; when the leader underperforms, the same thing happens.

Are you diverse? On what metrics are you diverse? Do you have ethnic diversity? Gender diversity? Racial diversity? All that stuff. But inclusiveness is a state of mind. It’s an emotion. Are you going to make Hence I was excited to read My Life in Full to deepen my understanding of this incredible role model. Having now finished the book, I’m quite disappointed. For starters, there wasn’t anything “full “or wholesome about how the book is written. It’s quite bland in its writing, and reads like a corporate memo that has been vetted for political correctness by several committees. There was no heart, and no grand revelations. It also seemed like Indra Nooyi didn’t do anything wrong in her career, and went from one success after another. The best part of the book is the 1st part, her childhood and early days in America. Here also she fails to recognise that she indeed belongs to a privileged family. As not many Indians at that time had a grandfather who is so highly educated(law professional) , but in my opinion she underplayed it. An amazing read, filled with lessons, optimism, warmth, and heart, about an extraordinary woman who rose to be a fantastic role model for all women.” I didn’t come here because of persecution or because I was fleeing problems in the country of my birth. But once you come into the United States, whatever the reason was that you left your country of birth, you are an immigrant in the country. And you go through all the teething pains of getting to know a new culture, understanding everything about it, and assimilating into it, in whatever shape or form you choose to assimilate. I didn’t have the entry pains that many people have, but once I got in, I had to go through the assimilation process.I’ve been a huge fan of Indra Nooyi. As an Indian born immigrant who lived in the US and started his career in management consulting, Indra Nooyi’s journey and meteoric rise through her career was hugely inspiring and something worth learning about and emulating. An extraordinary window into the life, career, and family of a brilliant business strategist. A terrific addition to the story of American business.” I think the fundamental role of a leader is to look for ways to shape the decades ahead, not just react to the present, and to help others accept the discomfort of disruptions to the status quo.” Nooyi’s memoir humanizes her in a way that former news headlines on her executive business presence did not. Readers witness firsthand the flair that her family, her thatha included, saw in the first woman of color and immigrant to run a Fortune 50 company.

Nooyi is a small village near Mangalore, and my in-laws loved that I carried the name in my pursuits in the US and put their tiny town on the map. I wonder why I am wired this way where my inner compass always tells me to keep pushing on with my job responsibilities, whatever the circumstances. … I love my family dearly, but this inner drive to help whenever I can certainly has taken a lot of time away from them—much to their dismay. I sometimes wish I were wired differently.” This is a very difficult discussion that needs to be had because as the world has gotten more complex, as companies have gotten bigger, boards have remained small and are still meeting on the same agenda.When you include work, home, and children—if you put all three together—that’s a lot to juggle because everybody wants you full time. And if you look at the CEO job as an “N minus two” position, when there are typically about 30 or 40 people, and many of them vying for the top job, all bets are off. It’s a slog. Whether you like it or not, to hold your job at the senior level, you’ve got to work extra hard. In that level, it’s either up or out. To compete with others, and contribute, and be noticed is a tremendous investment of time and energy. That’s why I think the I think women are held to a different standard from men when it comes to celebrating their professional accomplishments. No matter what we do, we are never quite enough. Getting a promotion or a prize outside the home sometimes seems to mean that either that prize was easy to get or that we are letting our domestic duties slide.

I knew we could have done even more—or done it faster—if the financial crisis hadn’t tossed us around like the rest of the global economy, but we’d handled that well too. I had worked as hard My conclusion is that our society can leap ahead on the work–family conundrum by focusing on three interconnected areas: paid leave, flexibility and predictability, and care.” When I changed my clothing and went with more tailored outfits—and it wasn’t high fashion, it was just elegant corporate outfits—a board member told me that he found me intimidating, whatever that means. I don’t know. I don’t care. But the fact of the matter is somebody actually said they found me intimidating. If a man shows up in a business suit, is he intimidating? I don’t think so. Why is it when I showed up in a well-tailored business suit, I was intimidating?

I’d never had a close woman colleague with a job like mine and had never seen a woman in a workplace who was senior to me.