"If you ask our daughters," she said in a frank interview on work-life balance, "I'm not sure they will say that I've been a good mom."
Conor Friedersdorf
The Atlantic - Jul 1 2014
ASPEN, Colo.—While interviewing Indra K. Nooyi, the CEO of PepsiC0, at the Aspen Ideas Festival Monday*, David Bradley, who owns The Atlantic,
asked two questions that elicited as frank a discussion of work-life
balance as I've seen from a U.S. CEO. Below is a lightly edited
transcript. The second question was preceded by a brief discussion of
Anne-Marie Slaughter's "Why Women Still Can't Have It All."
Q. You come home one day as president of the company, just
appointed, and your mom is not that impressed. Would you tell that
story?
This is about 14 years ago. I was working in the office. I work very
late, and we were in the middle of the Quaker Oats acquisition. And I
got a call about 9:30 in the night from the existing chairman and CEO at
that time. He said, Indra, we're going to announce you as president and
put you on the board of directors... I was overwhelmed, because look at
my background and where I came from—to be president of an iconic
American company and to be on the board of directors, I thought
something special had happened to me.
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