{"id":23551,"date":"2010-12-21T04:04:48","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T04:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/steve_reinemund_ceo_of_pepsi_co-_gives_his_views_on_a_life_in_business\/"},"modified":"2010-12-21T04:04:48","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T04:04:48","slug":"steve_reinemund_ceo_of_pepsi_co-_gives_his_views_on_a_life_in_business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23551","title":{"rendered":"Steve Reinemund, CEO of Pepsi Co., Gives His Views on a Life in Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last summer, Steve Reinemund, got a surprise phone call from the CEO of Coca Cola thanking him for an enormous favor. But Reinemund, at the time the CEO of Pepsi Co., had no idea what that favor had been.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out an unsuspecting Pepsi Co. administrative assistant received a package in the mail containing confidential Coca Cola documents. In keeping with Pepsi&#8217;s commitment to high ethical standards, the employee notified the appropriate company manger and the entire contents were immediately returned to Coke&#8217;s headquarters in Atlanta. Only two Pepsi employees were directly involved, and they both knew what they had to do right away. No executives at Pepsi so much as glanced at the secrets contained within that envelope.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Reinemund recounted this story to a rapt group of 250 in February as an example of the type of integrity he believes is \u201d\u201c&#8221;within the very DNA&#8221;of Pepsi&#8217;s corporate character.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redeemer.com\/news_and_events\/articles\/ceos_views.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last summer, Steve Reinemund, got a surprise phone call from the CEO of Coca Cola thanking him for an enormous favor. But Reinemund, at the time the CEO of Pepsi Co., had no idea what that favor had been. It<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23551\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,40,42,589,149,168,419,597,154,184,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-evangelicals","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}