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What I Would Not Do Is Flaunt My Indianess By Wearing A Saree To Work Everyday, Because It Distracts From The Job. So, I Would Not Do That. When In Rome, Do As The Romans Do. Social Events Are Different. If I Feel Comfortable In A Saree For A Social Event, I Wear It.

When You Assume Negative Intent, You're Angry. If You Take Away That Anger And Assume Positive Intent, You Will Be Amazed. Your Emotional Quotient Goes Up Because You Are No Longer Almost Random In Your Response.

Pepsico Did Not Have A Woman In The Senior Ranks, Nor A Foreign-born Person Who Was Willing To Think Differently

There Is Nothing Like A Concrete Life Plan To Weigh You Down. Because If You Always Have One Eye On Some Future Goal, You Stop Paying Attention The The Job At Hand, Miss Opportunities That Might Arise, And Stay Fixedly On One Path, Even When A Better, Newer Course Might Have Opened Up.

I Think Innovation As A Discipline Needs To Go Back And Get Rethought And Revived. There Are So Many Models To Talk About Innovation, There Are So Many Typologies Of Innovation, And You Have To Find A Good Innovation Metric That Truly Captures The Innovation Performance Of A Company.