Monday, June 02, 2008
Indra Nooyi
In the June 2008 issue of The Costco Connection, their quarterly magazine, Richard Deitsch wrote about his interview with the President/CEO of PepsiCo, Indra Nooyi, which showed a lot more respect for her achievements and business perspectives and a lot less appeal to prurient interests than you’ll find at Porfolio.com (Conde Nast) and sometimes Fortune Magazine or the Wall Street Journal.
First, Ms. Nooyi is clothed, not undressed or posed to maximize the exposure of her breasts, legs or thighs. Second, she speaks intelligently about PepsiCo’s core leadership values: “Performance with Purpose.” Third, when Ms. Nooyi looked at the March 2008 article about her in Fortune Magazine, she had the good grace and decency to be “visibly uncomfortable” because she knows she has yet to deliver real results and because she is ready and willing to be tested on her merits.
“I am just getting my feet wet. I am earning my stripes. I want those stripes to be bright. I want them screaming. Then you can write about me.”
What you learn from the Costco Connection article are her “Five C’s to Success.”
Competence: “you can’t move up in any job or in life unless you are damn good at something.”
Courage and confidence: “if you are not willing to break some china in speaking up, when you think something is not being done right, what is the value of having all that competency?”
Communication: “if you can’t communicate what you are going to do in a compelling way, that is a wasted thing.”
Compass: “if you don’t have moral integrity, it is all for naught.”
Coaching: “Mentors find you. You don’t find them. A mentor has picked you because you have the competence, the courage and confidence, you are a great communicator and you have a moral compass. They say, ‘I want to hitch my horse to yours because I think you are going to go places and you will take me with you. Not because I need it, but because I like the ride.’”
The Costco Connection, June 2008, page 20 ff.:
http://www.costcoconnection.com/connection/200806/?u1=texterity
First, Ms. Nooyi is clothed, not undressed or posed to maximize the exposure of her breasts, legs or thighs. Second, she speaks intelligently about PepsiCo’s core leadership values: “Performance with Purpose.” Third, when Ms. Nooyi looked at the March 2008 article about her in Fortune Magazine, she had the good grace and decency to be “visibly uncomfortable” because she knows she has yet to deliver real results and because she is ready and willing to be tested on her merits.
“I am just getting my feet wet. I am earning my stripes. I want those stripes to be bright. I want them screaming. Then you can write about me.”
What you learn from the Costco Connection article are her “Five C’s to Success.”
Competence: “you can’t move up in any job or in life unless you are damn good at something.”
Courage and confidence: “if you are not willing to break some china in speaking up, when you think something is not being done right, what is the value of having all that competency?”
Communication: “if you can’t communicate what you are going to do in a compelling way, that is a wasted thing.”
Compass: “if you don’t have moral integrity, it is all for naught.”
Coaching: “Mentors find you. You don’t find them. A mentor has picked you because you have the competence, the courage and confidence, you are a great communicator and you have a moral compass. They say, ‘I want to hitch my horse to yours because I think you are going to go places and you will take me with you. Not because I need it, but because I like the ride.’”
The Costco Connection, June 2008, page 20 ff.:
http://www.costcoconnection.com/connection/200806/?u1=texterity
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