{"id":5329,"date":"2022-02-22T05:07:31","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T05:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precog.iiit.ac.in\/blog\/?p=5329"},"modified":"2022-02-22T05:14:48","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T05:14:48","slug":"my-life-in-full","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precog.iiit.ac.in\/blog\/?p=5329","title":{"rendered":"Excerpts from \u201cMy Life in Full: Work, Family, and Our Future\u201d by Indra K. Nooyi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As I was reading Blackstone \/ Steve’s story (my blog<\/a>), I got stumbled on Indra Nooyi’s story; such books instantly strike a cord with me. Book was so engaging, that I finished the book in Jan itself, i.e. 2 books in a month, not very common these days \ud83d\ude1b Was fascinating to read the book that has reference to Chennai a lot, my hometown too! My last book with so much of Chennai reference was Biography of A R Rahman (my blog<\/a>), there is something lovely about reading books \/ personalities that has roots to Chennai! I loved the reference to Thata<\/strong> (grandfather in Tamil language) in the book. Book was very engaging, sharing some of the most interesting lines below. #Book2of2022 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[Page Xiii] 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 expect the discomfort of disruptions to the status quo. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

[4] My childhood was not a world of “Great Job!” it was more like “That was so-so” or “Is this the best you can do?” We were optimized of honesty, not false encouragement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

[7] Greek philosopher Epictetus’s saying “We have two ears one mouth so that we can listen to it twice as much as we speak.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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[182]  Often, Raj would tell me, “Your list is always PepsiCo, PepsiCo, PepsiCo; then your  kids [as if they were only mine]; then your mother; then, at the bottom, there’s me.” He was right. But my joking response was “At least you are on the list!” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

[184] The trappings of leadership in our world —- money, travel, meeting famous and fascinating people, beautiful living and workspaces —- become easy to adapt to and accept. But true leaders must keep their feet firmly rooted to the ground and focus on responsibilities of their job. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

[214] This kind of pulling together to address a societal issue was very encouraging to me. It is possible. It just doesn’t happen enough. Private industry —- with its incredible ability to move fast and efficiently —- in partnership with the government, with its broad mandate, is perhaps the most powerful force we have for positive change in society. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

[222] I had to muster the courage to change my mind when the environment changed and required a different approach to business. That was leadership.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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[278] As Professor Rangan describes the course, “Students have to decide whether they want to make just a career or also a contribution.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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As I was reading Blackstone \/ Steve’s story (my blog), I got stumbled on Indra Nooyi’s story; such books instantly strike a cord with me. Book was so engaging, that I finished the book in Jan itself, i.e. 2 books in a month, not very common these days \ud83d\ude1b Was fascinating to read the book that has reference to Chennai a lot, my hometown too! My last book with so much of Chennai reference was Biography of A R Rahman (my blog), there is something lovely about reading books \/ personalities that has roots to Chennai! I loved the reference to Thata (grandfather in Tamil language) in the book. Book was very engaging, sharing some of the most interesting lines below. #Book2of2022 [Page Xiii] 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 expect the discomfort of disruptions to the status quo.  [4] My childhood was not a world of “Great Job!” it was more like “That was so-so” or “Is this the best you can do?” We were optimized of honesty, not false encouragement. [7] Greek philosopher Epictetus’s saying “We have two ears one mouth so that we can listen to it twice as much as we speak.”  [57] [106] [182]  Often, Raj would tell me, “Your list is always PepsiCo, PepsiCo, PepsiCo; then your  kids [as if they were only mine]; then your mother; then, at the bottom, there’s me.” He was right. But my joking response was “At least you are on the list!”  [184] The trappings of leadership in our world —- money, travel, meeting famous and fascinating people, beautiful living and workspaces —- become easy to adapt to and accept. But true leaders must keep their feet firmly rooted to the ground and focus on responsibilities of their job.  [214] This kind of pulling together to address a societal issue was very encouraging to me. It is possible. It just doesn’t happen enough. Private industry —- with its incredible ability to move fast and efficiently —- in partnership with the government, with its broad mandate, is perhaps the most powerful force we have for positive change in society.  [222] I had to muster the courage to change my mind when the environment changed and required a different approach to business. That was leadership. [246] [278] As Professor Rangan describes the course, “Students have to decide whether they want to make just a career or also a contribution.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1452,1530],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-excerpts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/precog.iiit.ac.in\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/precog.iiit.ac.in\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/precog.iiit.ac.in\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/precog.iiit.ac.in\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/precog.iiit.ac.in\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5329"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/precog.iiit.ac.in\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5380,"href":"https:\/\/precog.iiit.ac.in\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5329\/revisions\/5380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/precog.iiit.ac.in\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/precog.iiit.ac.in\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/precog.iiit.ac.in\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}