Indra Nooyi, former CEO of PepsiCo, says being a youngest sibling helped her cultivate leadership skills from an early age. Here's how.
Indra Nooyi speaks on stage during Watermark Conference For Women 2020 at San Jose Convention Center on February 12, 2020 in San Jose, California.Youngest siblings can feel like they're at a disadvantage, from receiving hand-me-downs to getting blamed for things they didn't do.CEO who stepped down in 2018, being the youngest of three siblings gave her a professional advantage: It taught her how to debate and speak up for herself, she said at the Aspen Ideas Festival on Tuesday.
She and her siblings would often ask each other questions like, "If you were president of this country, what would you do?" and "If you were chief minister of the state, what would you do?" and make their case for whose ideas were better, Nooyi explained."When you're a little child, you want to debate even more, because you're always the forgotten child," she said. "I won the lottery of life, in that way.
Nooyi implemented some of those learnings upon becoming PepsiCo's CEO in 2006. Under her decade-plus of leadership, Building confidence often starts with training your brain to reject self-doubt, millionaire investor Matt Higgins
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