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Good Time Show: Performance with Purpose with Indra Nooyi

Episode Summary

Indra Nooyi is the former chairperson and CEO of PepsiCO, a current board member of Amazon, and consistently named one of the most 100 influential women in the world. In short, she's had quite the career, and in this Good Time Show, she shares her favorite management hack, why she chose PepsiCo over GE, how she handled the loneliness of leadership, and what Steve Jobs taught her about design.

Episode Notes

• Indra didn't plan her career -- and that was a good thing [2:15]
• The personal tradeoffs of professional success [4:24]
• Deciding between a job at GE and PepsiCo [7:27]
• Rising up the ranks of PepsiCo [12:13]
• Transitioning PepsiCo to healthier foods... and doing well by doing good [16:34]
• Management hack: writing letters to parents [19:04] 
• "Performance with Purpose" -- what is it and why does it matter? [22:15]
• Work-life balance requires tradeoffs [23:24]
• Meeting Steve Jobs and learning the power of design [31:02]
• The loneliness of leadership [33:15]

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