Indra Nooyi

I said, we have the best interests of the company at heart, but we will keep you informed.

But your job is to keep driving the performance.

Now, deep down inside, you know, I was in turmoil because I had to deal with all of this stuff instead of just focusing on the company.

However, to the employees, I had to show that I was calm,

I was in control and that I was going to take them to a better place.

So I think boards pick leaders for resilience, ability to manage through crises, and can you stay calm through it?

Nelson Peltz, yeah.

It was a typical activist book.

He wrote a white paper and he gave it to me.

I mean, I knew Nelson Pels for years.

I liked him, actually.

So there was no strangers walked off the street with a white paper.

It wasn't that way.

He'd done his work.

Most activists pick data selectively to make their case.

And so when he gave me the white paper, I didn't sit here going, I'm not going to listen to you.

I said, look, let me study his white paper because he may be the external activist.

I'm an internal activist.

I want this company to do well.

So why don't we look at his white paper as a free consulting report?