For PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi, Adaptability is Key to Business Success

May 17, 2012 3:00 PM ET

For PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi, Adaptability is Key to Business Success

Indra Nooyi has deep connections to the restaurant industry. She came aboard PepsiCo in 1994 to steer the foodservice division, visiting front- and back-of-the house operations across America to build the company’s struggling restaurant business. So when this dynamic Chairman and CEO took the stage Tuesday to keynote at the Restaurant Leadership Conference in Scottsdale, Arizona, she had lots of cred with the1,000+ operators in the audience. Her message— “we’re all in the same business today—the business of adaptability. Failure to adapt can be fatal.”

How do you adapt when rules are written on the fly? Under Nooyi’s leadership, PepsiCo has developed a model of adaptability to keep it performing and transforming in a changing world. She shared four strategies with the attendees.

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