Women play a couple of roles. They are in professional schools and increasingly producing the talent to keep the engines of the economy growing, but they're also the nurturers and the caregivers.

Women helping each other - coaching, mentoring, and providing tips - is a great way for us to be our own force.

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.

If you give up the guilt, that's a huge load off your shoulders.

The glass ceiling will go away when women help other women break through that ceiling.

Just because you are CEO, don't think you have landed. You must continually increase your learning, the way you think, and the way you approach the organization. I've never forgotten that.

PepsiCo did not have a woman in the senior ranks, nor a foreign-born person who was willing to think differently