Shiv Shivakumar
Operating Partner at Advent International; former Chairperson & CEO of PepsiCo India and former CEO of Nokia India, and author of "The Right Choice" and "The CEO Mindset".
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Sep 4, 2026
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When you are a CEO, people tend to come to you with a set of data, with a set of slides to say, this is where we think it is headed and we want your decision on this.
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The first rule for any good CEO is challenge and question the assumptions being made.
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If you don't challenge and question the assumptions being made, you will end up with the wrong decision.
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Robert McNamara, who was Secretary of State under President Kennedy, said this very important thing.
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He said in that room in the Oval Office, we assume that Vietnam will go communist.
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Next thing is, is there anything in the product that you can pull out dramatically and do something? Let me give you an example.
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