Indra Nooyi

I remember there was a Walmart senior executive, Greg Foran, who was running North America Walmart.

And he was in Kiwi and he was turning around Walmart North America.

people thought he was very difficult.

And I went to meet him.

And Doug McMillan, the CEO, told Greg Foran, hey, Indra is a good friend of mine.

And Greg Foran said, well, if you really want to learn Walmart...

follow me on a store tour and you know these guys go to a store every day some region so greg would say i'm going to be in pittsburgh from 8 a.m to 6 p.m on the 23rd of march so i'd fly to pittsburgh i'd meet him there and my job was just to trail greg foran to see how he looked at every aisle how he looked at how clothing should be merchandised what product was married with what i

And where did he stop and say, redo this entire display for the consumer?

So I was learning from Greg Foran, but he allowed me to tell him.

Okay.

And so I felt it was a gift he gave me.

And at lunchtime, he would only take a half an hour break.

He said, tell me what you learned.

Let me tell you what I think you should have taken away.

Greg now runs Air New Zealand.

I was in New Zealand a year ago with him.

We were reflecting on our market experiences.

He taught me more than I would have learned from anybody.

But this is the advantage of being open to ideas, open to learning.

And you can learn a lot from CEOs and become a better person yourself.