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Teaches Leading with Purpose

Indra Nooyi

Teaches Leading With Purpose

Indra introduces herself, offers a glimpse into her journey as CEO of PepsiCo, and provides an overview of what she will cover in the class.

1. Meet Your Instructor

Meet Your Instructor

Indra shares an overview of her leadership formula—the “7 Cs”—and provides a lesson on the first three Cs of this philosophy: Competence, Creativity, and Courage.

2. 7 C's of Leadership: Your Core Abilities

7 C's of Leadership: Your Core Abilities

In this lesson, Indra provides insight into how to be a great communicator—as well as how communication provides a pathway for successful mentorship and relationships with coworkers.

3. 7 C's of Leadership: Working With Others

7 C's of Leadership: Working With Others

Indra takes you through her final two Cs—Compass (aka integrity) and Citizenship—and shares her thoughts on how to build and nurture community.

4. 7 C's of Leadership: Creating A Better World

7 C's of Leadership: Creating A Better World

Learn how a personal stake in every interaction can drive great first impressions.

5. Make Great First Impressions

Make Great First Impressions

Indra demonstrates how you can ensure every meeting leads to action by effectively engaging with participants and listening to every voice in the room.

6. Take Charge Of Meetings

Take Charge Of Meetings

Learn what innovation means to Indra as she shares her philosophy of zooming in and out when exploring big ideas.

7. Zooming in and Zooming Out

Zooming in and Zooming Out

Using her experiences, from the top level of a global corporation to riding on truck routes with her delivery team, Indra stresses the importance of engaging with your front-end workers when strategizing for your business.

8. Connect With Your Team

Connect With Your Team

In this lesson, Indra breaks down the differences between a customer and a consumer, and introduces important terminology and strategies, including trading area analyses and capitalizing on big holidays.

9. Harness The Consumer Pull

Harness The Consumer Pull

Indra shares her approach on using competition to better your own business. She provides a case study of the process she followed at PepsiCo to launch Bubly, a billion-dollar sparkling-water brand.

10. Study Your Competitors

Study Your Competitors

In this lesson, Indra shares her approach for long-term strategic thinking, designed to challenge assumptions and breed innovation.

11. Strategic Thinking: A Future Back Perspective

Strategic Thinking: A Future Back Perspective

During her time at PepsiCo, Indra used megatrends to develop “Performance With Purpose,” PepsiCo’s guiding strategy. She’ll take you through the data and the trends, and how they led her team to develop a new strategic direction.

12. Performance With Purpose: Crafting The Dream 

Performance With Purpose: Crafting The Dream 

In this lesson, Indra shares her “outside-in” approach to developing a blueprint for a business, and explores how you can use megatrends to guide your own strategy.

13. Assess and Use Megatrends

Assess and Use Megatrends

In this lesson, Indra discusses how she sold “Performance With Purpose” to her team and her skeptics, and kept the company on track through the global launch.

14. Creating Buy-In and Courting The Skeptics

Creating Buy-In and Courting The Skeptics

Indra provides a lesson on resource segmentation, shares her advice on how to allocate resources, and highlights the importance of effectively delegating responsibility on a project.

15. Resourcing Turns A Dream Into A Reality

Resourcing Turns A Dream Into A Reality

In this chapter, Indra demonstrates how you can use her 7 Cs of Communication and Coaching to be a great manager, and encourage your direct reports to achieve their full potential.

16. Monitor Risks and Progress

Monitor Risks and Progress

Indra strongly believes that purpose-driven goals are as important as financial goals. She shares how she worked with her team to become a positive transformational force in the communities in which they operated.

17. Global Change On A Local Level

Global Change On A Local Level

In this lesson, Indra assesses the successes and failures of "Performance With Purpose" to demonstrate how she exercised her 7 Cs. She also discusses the resulting transformation, supply chain changes, and environmental sustainability achieved.

18. Evaluating Success Against the Original Goals

Evaluating Success Against the Original Goals

Organizational changes are part and parcel of building a business. In this lesson, Indra shares her process of working through growing pains and transitioning to new organizational structures.

19. Organizing Your People With Care

Organizing Your People With Care

Indra discusses the megatrends she sees today and analyzes their impact on society. She challenges members to find the opportunities presented by these trends in their own field.

20. Case Study: My Megatrends of the 2020s

Case Study: My Megatrends of the 2020s

Indra provides insight into crisis management at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, when she was brought on board a task force to reopen the state of Connecticut and strike a careful balance between saving businesses and keeping everyone safe.

21. Case Study: Leadership In A Crisis

Case Study: Leadership In A Crisis

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