I really like Indra Nooyi who worked as both President and CEO of PepsiCo for about 12 years. Here are little things I enjoyed loads ka:
- As a mother, she didn't have much time to be with her daughters so she made her office 'an extended family'. For example, her daughter would call to talk with 'my mom' and it would be her secretary to handle the girl's request sometimes. Nooyi was saying that once her daughter wanted to play nintendo and so her secretary had a list of questions she had to go through before a 'yes' was granted. Then, the secretary would report it to her.
My thinking:
1. Could it be that she was born in India in the extended family culture, which could lead her to apply it into her life and work?
2. Would it be regarded 'crossing the line between work and family' in the workplace especially by asking her secretary to help with it in western culture?
3. I feel we've already gone too far in our Thai culture to use office staff as our extended family (to run personal errands) and it could cause so many complicated issues like nepotism, unfair treatment, etc. Agree mai ka?
- Her sense of humor and wit shone ka. She talked about her husband who said her priority list had work work work on top, followed by her two girls and then him down below. She then jokingly said that her husband should be happy he was still on the list. Her husband was in the audience and siting there smiling! They two must have joked about it quite a bit too ka.
She was also jokingly talking about an armchair she had to sit for an interview which wasn't so friendly to women wearing skirts. She put it nicely to say more women needed to help design chairs ka!
My thinking was that in the first joke, with her big smile and shining eyes, it was filled with love and that made the joke a good fun to hear. For the second one, it was so true designs have to respond to different angles of usage including outfits.
- As a new CEO when looking back, she wished she could have made changes in haste so progress could be seen much faster. She was trying to change the mindsets of people but took real long without much achievement seen lae ka. She said those people would need to leave if they didn't want to go along.
She said people should look at 'how the company spends in its operation', not 'what their CSR is'. It was because things could be carefully considered from all dimensions before starting working instead of spending money on CSR out of guilt to help better the envi ka! This is also what has been on my mind to เริ่มตนที่ต้นทาง na ka.
I also like it a lot when she shared her thought about 'sustainability'. She said leaders tended to look at the quarterly profits during their tenure over sustainable gains and so it was their successors to pick up the debris after these senior leaders were gone.
My thinking right away was about our politicians and sorry to say some university presidents as well. Some seriously wanted their policies to come up with short-term success without much thinking about longer-term impacts mai ka?
Hit and run dee gwa kaaa!
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