Indra Nooyi

I went to the Boston Consulting Group in Chicago.

We had just opened up.

And I had never been in consulting before.

And so this was a new experience.

First of all, the caliber of people is just fantastic.

Each one is pushing the other.

You're operating at the highest level of a corporation.

And in BCG, you worked on two different assignments at the same time.

So you had to understand two industries, the value drivers, two non-competitive industries.

What are the value drivers?

How do you think about adding value to the client in the assignment you're working on?

And so it challenged me in profound ways.

First, to learn industries, learn the economics of the industry, the value drivers.

Think beyond the industry to see what insights you can bring to the industry.

and learn about dealing with leaders at very high positions, which I'd never done before in the United States.

I mean, I'd looked at these leaders as, my God, so-and-so is the CEO, and now I'm sitting in the same room with the CEO.

How do I behave?

How do I, you know, articulate my point of view without sounding like I'm a know-it-all?

There's so much I had to learn.

In my six and a half years at BCG, I think I grew 10 or 15 years.