In 2006, when she became CEO, She spent some time with Steve Jobs at Apple. Apple, in many ways, opened everybody’s eyes to design. Jobs, who was a driven and sometimes ruthless manager , told Nooyi that there is a time and a place to throw temper tantrums.
The best advice she got, Lee said, came from Marissa Mayer when Lee considering taking a job at Google. Mayer said her own favorite choices had come when she followed the more difficult road. “’Are you learning, are you growing, are you challenging yourself?’†Lee recalled Mayer asking. “I always define my career in terms of that.â€
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