Indra Nooyi: A Leader's Path to Success

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Introduction
This paper is based on the professional career path of Indra Nooyi and how her leadership
skills helped to achieve the goals for Pepsi. Indra Nooyi, one of the most successful business
executive has been ranked among the 100 most powerful women in the world (Nelson,
2015). She became the CEO and President in 2006 of the company (Clinebell, 2014). She has
guided the international strategy of the company for more than a decade and led to the rise in
profit of the company. She was ranked second in the Fortune List of most powerful women.
Nooyi's deliberate redirection of the company has been mainly successful. She reclassified its
products into three categories: fun for you, better for you and good for you (Singh &
Manisha, 2013). She stimulated corporate expenditure away from the fast foods and to the
healthier alternative, with the objective of improving the healthiness of the fun
offerings. Nooyi played a key role in the brand expansion and diversification of PepsiCo,
which was mainly focused on the soft drinks. Nooyi during her career has learnt to be more
firm with her team to grow and achieve greater heights. The paper implies on the leader’s
management roles and functions to improve the organization’s structure, operations and
communications.
Career path and leadership skills
Nooyi intensely values her principles working on effective communication skills from a very
young age and learning how to encourage a group of people. Turning around a doing well
company for a CEO, can be more tough as most of the people do not realize the necessity or
the need. What has motivated Nooyi to break hindrances and achieve constantly is her ability
to be inquisitive, lively, and a lifelong student (Vinay & Singh 2015). Nooyi showed the
impact that great leaders can truly have on others things such as creating a vision, having
courage of the conviction, and unveiling the power of the people. Results have shown that

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under her possession as CEO of PepsiCo speaks itself. The revenue of the company grew
from $35 billion to $63.5 billion and by the end of the year; a sum of shareholder return was
almost 162 percent. (Miranda, 2013). She had introduced the Performance with Purpose
vision, a program to oblige long-term expansion while leaving behind a positive print on
society and the environment. Indra stepped down as a CEO, leaving behind the company that
is finely placed for the future. Therefore, it is not at all amazing that she is a treasured and
influential leader in the big business world. During her career, she explains that she has
seized to her 5 C’s Model of Leadership, which are competency, courage, confidence,
communication skills and compass and these obvious qualities have led to the growth as a
leader and her success as well as the company (Vinay & Singh 2015). One of them is
imagining self as the President. This approach helped to build Nooyi's confidence. She
managed and pushed through, secured in her skill and ability. She would talk to herself, that
she could to a task better than anyone else and she explained this at a 2015 talk in New York.
She also added that if everything failed, she could fix it as she knew she is that good.
Secondly, she believed to develop a niche skill. When issues arose, she wanted people to
think of her as the only person who can resolve the problem. By reflecting on the top skills
and by knowing what an individual wants, can help become an individual a go-to person in
the team. She said if someone has a competence that no one else he or she can become more
valuable. Thirdly, to think like the customers is another style of her. As a CEO, Nooyi
overlooked more than 26,000 employees worldwide that included more than 100 brands and
trademarks (Periyasamy, Anantharaman & Balasubramaniam, 2014). She used to take
pictures of the product’s packaging and assignment, and sent the critiques to the design and
promotion teams. Therefore, while thinking beyond an individual mission or assignment to it
is on the whole vision or mission can focus the person. Lastly, the adopted habit is surprise
with gratitude. Shortly after her promotion to CEO, Nooyi visited India to see her mother.