Woman in Leadership: Indra Nooyi

Posted on by Lohra Miller

Pepsi CEO Indra Nooyi has built a career that many people are envious of. One of the most influential women leaders in today’s society, Indra credits much of her success to a tough love atmosphere growing up. Her mother, despite Nooyi’s position running a multi-billion dollar company, affectionately tells her to “leave that damned crown in the garage” when she goes home. Such an outlook on life contributes to some of the best career advice she has to give others.Unknown

Embrace Tough Assignments

The woman who ranked at the number 14 position in the 2014 Forbes World’s 100 most powerful women says that the path of least resistance doe not take you to the promised land for any career. Common practice says to take the easiest assignments, and excel at them. This will push you up the corporate ladder faster. Unfortunately for those who have been following this wisdom, the inverse is closer to the truth.

Management and bosses understand when a task is a difficult one, and take note of a good job done on such tasks. By challenging oneself to a more difficult problem, you not only stand out from the crowd, but train yourself for difficult tasks in the future.

It pays to be a contributor to an organization, not just a taker. In order to show those in charge you are worth your weight in gold, it is going to take some elbow grease.

Indra Nooyi has been named one of America’s Best Leaders by U.S. News & World Report in 2008 as well as being elected to the Fellowship of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has ranked on Forbes 100 most Powerful Women in Business seven times, and Fortune’s 100 Most Powerful Women in Business five times.

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Restorative Justice in the Cloud

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As cloud computing continues to gain adoption in our personal and professional lives, a new take on this concept is also gaining mass appeal. The Turning Point Justice’s Cloud Justice platform harnesses the power of the cloud that we interact with in our daily lives, be it to upload photos from your mobile device or uploading documents to collaborate on a project with co workers. In a similar fashion, the Cloud Justice platform allows retailers across multiple locations to share information relevant to loss prevention efforts.Businessman drawing a Cloud Computing diagram

Instead of having to rely on separate databases and case management systems to handle all loss prevention needs, retailers can integrate all relevant databases into this cloud computing platform for easy access across multiple venues. Cloud Justice collects data that is needed for law enforcement and justice system reports and becomes available to other retailers with the proper system. Since the platform is flexible and customizable, all data also integrates with whatever existing system may be in place which removes the need for duplicate information.

Prior to innovations like the Cloud Justice platform, it has been increasingly difficult and costly for a retail chain to share information which detracts from even the best efforts to curb shoplifting. Paying for physical storage space is not the most cost effective method, not to mention that our current increasing demand for data and storage space is harmful to the environment. Cloud computing, on the other hand, offers large amounts of data storage space at a much lower price point than traditional data centers. Turning Point Justice, in working to develop Cloud Justice, has realized that for retailers to adopt more modern loss prevention tools, that it would need to avoid being costly.

To that end, TPJ is offering the Cloud Justice Platform for free to retailers. Costs associated with the platform are instead passed onto the offenders, who pay offender participation fees. Of course, all of that relies on the offender being a first time, petty shoplifter and choosing to participate in the Court Alternative Program provided by Turning Point Justice in partnership with the National Association for Shoplifting Prevention (NASP).

 

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