Indra Nooyi

interview she received a phone call and denied it immediately. Which showed a sign of respect and professionalism? As I continued I began asking who is a person she would like to meet one day and why? She said “Indra Nooyi because of her revolutionary thinking regarding business strategy’s.” Indra Nooyi is an Indian America business executive and the Chief Executive Officer of Pepsi Co. A fun fact is that I did not know even who she was and just being around her, I began learning new thing.…

Blisters, calluses, pain, and swelling are all consequences of wearing heels. Yet some employers require woman to wear heels. For example, Nicola Thorp, a receptionist, was told by her employer that she must wear heels to work, she refused, arguing that it would impair her from doing her job. When she was sent home, without pay for her incompliance, she began a petition stating that allowing companies to force women to such policies were sexist. Does a woman’s footwear make her work more…

the movie, iconic and empowering women are shown to prove to the viewers that you do not need to be stick skinny, have the perfect hair or flawless skin to have a leadership role. Hattie Caraway, Dr. Condoleezza Rice, Rosa Parks, Hilary Clinton, Indra Nooyi, Ursula Burna, Andrea Jung help to prove that empowered women do not need to use your sexuality to obtain empowerment in the world but we do not see these women represented in the media. Instead we see the Kardashian family, Paris Hilton, or…

In 1962, Michael Friedman proposed a doctrine in which he states that a company whose goal is to increase profits (legally) has the only social responsibility of a company is to pass on the profits to its stakeholders. In other words, the company does not do justice to its stakeholders by utilizing part of their profits for supporting social welfare causes. Friedman points out stakeholders would not invest in a company from which they cannot the maximum benefits. [1] Over the years, this…

PRINCIPLE: • Managing a Diverse Workforce have been proven to be a daunting task, which comes with it fair share of scrutiny and large amount of censure from a political, ethical, and religious stance. The United States is more diverse than it’s ever been, reflecting the entry of women into the workforce, immigration from other countries, the aging of the population, and shifting pattern of work and retirement (Lawrence & Weber, 2014). • Managing a Diverse Workforce a manager is required to…

Sheryl Sandberg image flashed in front of me. As I dropped my daughter and walked back – I wondered why Sheryl was my option A. I grew up in South India. I often saw a younger version of my mother in Indra Nooyi. That fits. She personifies what hard work and good luck can weave. If Indra is a phenomenal immigrant story, Sheryl is the precursor of what is to come. Snippets of why Few months ago, my…

and keeping it clean. Nonetheless, Coke had become the more frequent targeted company in India than Pepsi. The reason that Pepsi has an Indian CEO cannot be used to justify why Coca-coal is under more scrutiny because, the case was in 2003, and Indra Nooyi became Pepsi’s CEO in 2006. Therefore, the products were already under scrutiny even before Pepsi taking in an Indian CEO. In addition, the pesticides levels/contaminations in the Coke products were higher (45 times) compared to Pepsi’s (37…

Discover Your True North, by Bill George describes the expectations for today’s leaders have drastically changed from traditional views. The financial crisis a few years ago occurred in part because leaders consumed themselves with fame, fortune, and power. These self-serving leaders ultimately did not benefit themselves or the companies they led, making today’s leaders take notice. A great number of today’s workforce is comprised of the Millennials, who have very different expectations for…

Organizations lack diversity in there higher ranks of leadership. Women make up 24 of the 500 CEOs on the fortune 500 hundred companies. While most statistics state that women make up a substantial portion of the workforce and even middle management, they fail to reach the highest ranks of an organization. There are several barriers which prevent women from moving into higher management. Some of this may be due to men who are intimidated by women and do not believe they should be in high…

Leadership is so vast a concept that every person who has studied it has produced a definition of their own. It can, however generally be described as a guiding process which facilitates goal achievement (Stogdill, 1950 cited from Huczynski and Buchanan, 2013). There are numerous theories and ideas that attempt to decipher leadership and its effect in organizations. This essay examines some of these theories, while also pondering upon its dependence on culture, and the belief that it is an…