The TV talk-show “Yang Lan On on On” is pretty welcomed in China for interviewing a large number of celebrities domestically and abroad . I pick up one interviewee to describe—-Indra Nooyi , who comes from India trying her best to realize her values from a blue collar to a top manager in the manly mastered business industry.
Since Indra took the helm six years ago, PepsiCo has done a pretty good job. However, she also had to meetand overcome an urgent lifestyle-disease trend : obesity was moving beyond its role as the West’ s worst health problem and becoming a concern in emerging markets. For a company that urges billions of people to consume ever more snack foods and soft drinks,that’s a problem. With the severe difficulties and weak US economy, Indra observes “ Courage in leadership is very difficult, especially for a woman from foreign country ”. So she persuaded the board of directors and some of them still doubt her to hire a previously pharmaceutical research director and chief of the Diabetes, Endocrine, and Nutritional Trials unit of the Mayo Clinic, and asked him to build a big new program which could take sugar, salt, and fat out of products as much as possible, in addition, she set foot in producing new healthy and nutritional foods and beverages. Those efforts show that it has been growing, earning high profit margins to the company and stockholders.
After watching the legendary woman’s story, I am impacted and
encouraged by her experiences and spirits. I believe everyone can achieve his dreams if you have courage and faith.
Sounds interesting, but I wonder how long the interview lasts. Will it be at least an hour?
The interview lasts one hour and half played in two episodes.
OK, thanks.