Workaholic at work! Indra Nooyi answers e-mails even at midnight

PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi has a way of not letting her tremendous workload take the fizz out of her. How? By reveling in it. So much so that in an interview to a business magazine, the firebrand leader of the beverage company said that she barely sleeps, checking and answering emails in the middle of the night too.

“I struggle to sleep, so all night the e-mails ping, and I’ll get up every hour and answer. There are people who thrive on it, and people who struggle with it. I thrive on it still,” she said, adding that this is the pace she is used to and comfortable working with.

With the way the industry and world around is changing, Nooyi feels it’s only wise to keep up, rather than be pessimistic about the change. “I’m looking at the world and saying, ‘Interesting times.’”