“Indra Nooyi is American in the energy, enterprise and innovation she brings to her professional life; yet, she manages this without sacrificing the Indianness that is an essential ingredient in her personality. Her saris, her prayers are all the stuff of legend, an image of Ganesha has pride of place on her work table, and visitors are as apt to be drawn into a discussion of the elephant-headed god’s place in Hindu iconography as into discussing the best practices of business.
