Emcure’s Namita Thapar learnt the ‘F-word’ from Indra Nooyi's 2016 Women Summit talk

Thapar recently shared a one-minute clip of a talk that Nooyi gave, that taught her a lot.

By Rashmi Menon, ET Bureau | Aug 22, 2018, 08.36 AM IST

While Pepsi CEO Indra Nooyi’s decision to step down came as a surprise to many, closer home, another woman business leader took to social media to shower praise on the soon to be former CEO. Pune-based Emcure’s executive director Namita Thapar recently posted a one-minute clip of a talk that Nooyi gave at the 2016 Women in the World Summit panel, which taught her a lot.

In the video, Nooyi shared how women didn’t help women enough at the workplace. When women gave constructive feedback to the other, it was often construed in a negative manner.

“We assume that feedback from women means something’s wrong but if that same feedback came to us from men, we are willing to accept it. Or worst still, we don’t give feedback to women the way we should, even though we know they are not doing well. I think we have to change our whole approach,” she said.

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“I take a lot of inspiration from Indra Nooyi, CEO of PepsiCo. She is an accomplished business leader who describes herself as an ordinary woman born in a conservative and middle-class family. Being a woman and immigrant made it thrice as difficult for Nooyi to reach this position. But her mantra of working twice as hard as her male counterparts has set her apart. Her rise to power has lit up a fire in every aspirant and proves that nothing is impossible if you are determined.”