My Life in Full: Work, Family and Our Future

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I never set out to write a memoir. I started off wanting to write a bunch of policy papers on how to grease the skids for women to reach the top of a company. And then, coming out of the pandemic, I wanted to make it easier for our frontline workers to be able to do whatever they do and still have a support structure for them to take care of their families. 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.” For the lady who worked day and night, having almost equally ambitious husband, her family life seems to be too much trouble free, except for the housing and schooling issues, rest i assume is kept undercover.

I developed my own research routines. For a company that made citrus processing machines, I crawled through juice plants in Brazil and Florida and learned the intricacies of squeezing oranges with different commercial machines. I hung out in a bar in Green Bay, Wisconsin, nursing a lemonade, to listen to competitors' factory workers talk about their troubles on their tissue lines, and then drew lessons for my clients. (Alok - Meaningful insights take tons of hard work to gather!) women. Women are a potent force in the economy. As somebody said, they represent the biggest emerging market opportunity in the United States. Bottom line is, in this book you won't find any major revelation, as very less REAL life is disclosed. As a reader you hardly have any professional take away from such a successful person, apart from "working passionately/hard can be key to success" . She is the woman who broke the glass ceiling, an immigrant who became CEO of a Fortune 50 company, and an inspiration to so many around the world, including me. So, my boyfriend gifted me this book. In the book, Indra Nooyi talks about her life, starting from her early childhood, telling what moulded and prepared her to reach the heights in her career. We still have relatively few women with the experience and fortitude to be considered for the position of CEO of a multibillion-dollar enterprise. This is a real issue because we are not enabling so many talented young women to achieve their full potential—a loss for the overall economy.”

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Nooyi takes us through the events that shaped her, from her childhood and early education in 1960s India, to the Yale School of Management, to her rise as a corporate consultant and strategist who soon ascended into the most senior executive ranks.The book offers an inside look at PepsiCo, and Nooyi’s thinking as she steered the iconic American company toward healthier products and reinvented its environmental profile, despite resistance at every turn. We are investing in your education to help you stand on your own two feet," he said. "The rest is up to you. Be your own person." (Alok: JUST the advice we've given to our daughters :) I wouldn’t take much inspiration from her because she’s terribly steeped in privilege and opportunities just seemed to fall in her lap (or that’s how she portrays in her book). The only personal takeaways I had were: a) keep learning throughout your life, especially about whatever work you’re gonna do; b) give your best & more to whatever you do.

One of two things has to happen for us to really make boards think about D&I in a wholly different way. Boards need to change their mindset so they can start to embrace these notions, and they need The writing is a bit dry, very factual- a lot of space dedicated to PepsiCo's efforts to be a 'sustainably capitalist' company. I felt I could have read these else where as well if I was interested enough. What was probably missing were more insights into any struggles and her feelings navigating through difficult situations. Wherever included, even these are matter of fact! But maybe, that's the person she is and that's what helped her have such an immensely successful career! I would probably give this book a 3.5 if Goodreads allowed it. rounded up to 4. It's a book for a certain type of audience, I think. The writing is very dry and to-the-point. I only kept going because I wanted to hear more of her story, not just in her own words but also in her own voice. The Indian woman so many Indian parents want their daughters to learn about, look up to, and emulate - what did she do different?I think women today are held to a different standard. They’re too loud or too soft. They’re too emotional or not emotional enough. They’re too strident, or they’re too weak or passive. Every possible badge is given to women. It’s disconcerting because you can feel it. You get these badges. You can see the looks among men when women dress a certain way. It’s the environment we live in, whether we like it or not. And that ranges from every business event you go to, every social event you go to, and sometimes even in boardrooms. As usual, I am unsure how to treat an autobiography considering the author isn’t obliged to preach anything, their only obligation is to tell their story.