Every company has president, board chairman or leader. For the most ways we agree that someone individually needs to head a business and social institutions. The success of a business or an industry is determined by the leaders it chooses or inherits. How does someone earn the designation of being a great leader? One of the greatest things about leadership is that everyone bring something different to the table. If we were to read articles on good leadership qualities, we would usually see factors like integrity, effective communication and influence. These are wonderful qualities of a leader. 

Leader is focused much more on the individual capability of the leader: "Leadership is a function of knowing yourself, having a vision that is well communicated, building trust among colleagues, and taking effective action to realize your own leadership potential."(Warren Bennis)

One such leader is a lady superstar, a CEO  of a fortune 500 bussiness entity. we discuss today  here is about Ms. Indira Nooyi, CEO Pepsico India. Indira Krisnamurthy Nooyi, the 62 year-old, chennai-born, Nooyi, was in 2006 appointed as the first female boss of the $63.5 billion turnover company where she has spent over two decades by now. Over the years she became a flag bearer for working women striving to balance the personal with the professional life.

Nooyi has been vocal about the extraordinary leadership traits Indians bring to organisations. An ability to live in a "volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world" makes Indians more resilient and flexible to change, she feels.  

A graduate of Indian Institute of Management Calcutta and later  Yale, Nooyi is credited with earning top degrees, mostly unknown for women in India of her times. Nooyi credits India's pedigreed education system for picking out strong leaders. She has consistently ranked among the world's 100 most powerful women in 2014, she was ranked number 13 on the forbes list of the world's 100 most powerful women, and was ranked the 2nd most powerful woman on Fortune list in 2015.

Nooyi believes in constant reinvention. "The minute you've developed a new business model, it's extinct, because somebody is going to copy it."

Nooyi who is from India, is the first foreign-born CEO of pepsi and the first woman to lead the chips-and-soda company. Her departure thins the ranks of female CEOs running S&P 500 companies and comes at a time when Pepsi's North American beverage unit is stagnating amid a general decline in soda consumption. In 24 years at Pepsi, including 12 years as chief executive, she has helped the Frito-Lay unit grow in a challenging industry and added healthier drinks and snacks to portfolio that includes cheetos and Mountain Dew.