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One question I always get from people is why the career change. From Mine Overseer at Anglo American Thermal Coal to being the founder of a company in meat processing. It wasn’t just a career change, it was a leap into a whole new world. Moving from the structured safety protocols of mining to the meticulous quality standards in food processing has required constant adaptation. Every day is a learning day.  What continues to drive me in this new phase is the unchanging pursuit of excellence. Whether it's ensuring safety in the mines or guaranteeing the highest quality of meat products, the core mission remains the same—excellence is non-negotiable. 🌱 Each day brings fresh insights and new skills, reminding me that the thirst for learning and improving should never cease, no matter the industry.  . . . . . #OperationalExcellence #entrepreneurialjourney #Leadership

🏆𝟯𝟲𝟱 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗽𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴! Have you ever looked back at a year and marveled at how much has changed, how much you've learned, and how much you've grown? 𝗥𝗲𝗳𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗮𝘁 𝗖𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗲𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗟𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱, 𝗶𝘁'𝘀 𝗮𝗺𝗮𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗲𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗼𝗳 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗹𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗲 𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗱. 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗷𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘆 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗻𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻𝗲, 𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘄𝘁𝗵 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗲𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘆. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗲𝗹 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗶𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗲𝘀, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀. 𝗔𝘁 𝗖𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗲𝗹, 𝘄𝗲 𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘀𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗱𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗸𝗲𝗽𝘁 𝗽𝘂𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗰𝘂𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴-𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗲𝘀. If you're on a similar journey, remember to keep your mind open to continuous learning. Engage with industry changes, be adaptive, and never hesitate to ask questions. These small steps ensure that the learning never stops. Here's to another year of learning, growth, and success #LearningJourney #GrowthMindset #ContinuousLearning #Innovation #SteelIndustry #ProfessionalDevelopment #Leadership #CareerGrowth #EmbraceChange #ChallengesToOpportunities #CaptainSteel #IndustryInsights

From Digital Marketing to Nonferrous Metals: A Journey of Reinvention Reinvention fuels innovation. My career shift from leading Korea’s top digital marketing agency to entering the nonferrous metals industry has been a lesson in growth and adaptability. What I’ve Learned: 1. Leverage Existing Skills: Data and analytics are essential in both marketing and supply chains. 2️. Stay Open to Opportunities: The metals market is ripe for innovation and digital transformation. 3️. Build Strong Networks: Success is a team effort, relying on collaboration and partnerships. 🔄 Your career doesn’t have to be linear. What changes have shaped your success? Share your experiences! #Leadership #CareerGrowth #Innovation #NonferrousMetals

best chemistry thing I ever heard and learnt andddd most importantly retained...#kotafactoryseason3 #pookamadamchemistryclass #chemistryclasses #chemistry #chemistrylesson #iit #neet🙂🙂#Motivation #Inspiration #MotivationalMonday (or the specific day of the week) #Success #PersonalGrowth #Leadership #Mindset #SelfImprovement #PositiveThinking #CareerGrowth

What Physics can teach us about managing innovative breakthroughs and incremental improvements. Critical things to learn are: 1. For growth, phase change is critical. We need to boil things up! We can't get a lot of work done with warm water. 2. It is important that the two phases be separated and yet be in dynamic equilibrium. It is the primary task of the top management to ensure that the organization structure is right to balance both the phases - systems and outcomes. 3. Just because steam has more energy than water, we can't boil out the source. We need to constantly top up the water. For both the organization to sustain growth, building talent density is critical. Subodh PS: Ignore typos. I wrote this blog to be productive while sitting on a back table of a stereotypical meeting 😀😀

Here's a scenario: 👎 You have a customer that has historically low product usage.  👯 However, when you have a call with this customer, the key stakeholder and the stakeholder's team attend the call. 🎉 The customer realizes that they have work to do to "relaunch" the product internally and are looking for strategic guidance. BUT 🛑 You never follow up with that strategic guidance. In fact, from call to call, you never provide anything other than promises to follow up. You're going to kick the can until you can get answers. The above scenario could be indicative of a CSM who is not performing optimally OR it means that the "best practices" are simply not available and that the work to uncover and collect them is still undone. Here's the bottom line: Part of growing as a CS team means doing the hard work of documenting your knowledge and mining it so that others can use it to empower the work that they do with customers every day. This is true of leadership and individual contributors. Until growing organizations realize this, CSMs will always tailspin in the scenario I described above. Knowledge management is key to growth, enablement, and ultimately scale. #themoreyouknow #customersuccess #leadership

Tricky problems must be shaped before they can be solved. To start that process, and stimulate novel thinking, leaders should look through multiple lenses. Finding innovative solutions is hard. Precedent and experience push us toward familiar ways of seeing things, which can be inadequate for the truly tough challenges that confront senior leaders. After all, if a problem can be solved before it escalates to the C-suite, it typically is. Yet we know that teams of smart people from different backgrounds are more likely to come up with fresh ideas more quickly than individuals or like-minded groups do.2 When a diverse range of experts—game theorists to economists to psychologists—interact, their approach to problems is different from those that individuals use. The solution space becomes broader, increasing the chance that a more innovative answer will be found. #Problemsolving #innovation #solutions

Please join us in congratulating Asim K., our Managing Director, who holds a PhD in Mining Engineering Optimization and **over a decade of experience in leading and implementing complex projects**, who has reached a remarkable milestone – 10 years with A+I! Since co-founding the company in 2014 as a partnership, Asim has been a driving force behind A+I's growth and success. His leadership and expertise have been instrumental in achieving key milestones. ❇First project in 2014 ❇First Technical Presentation in 2015 ❇Incorporation and First Employee in 2016 ❇First International Project in 2015 ❇First Project in Aerospace 2017 ❇Expanding into the Supply Chain industry in 2019 ❇Entering the Food Industry in 2020 ❇Integrated Solutions Partnerships in 2024 ◾ Highlighting Asim's Achievements: He has been involved in many different challenging and rewarding projects over the last decade. His memorable experiences have always been projects where he has been able to work with people at each level of the organization from the C-Suite to the value generators on the floor; understanding opportunities, translating returns for each level that people can get behind, and delivering quick and sustainable results. ◾Personal Growth: Asim emphasizes the valuable applied skills he's gained during his tenure, particularly in tackling technical and people-related issues. Importantly, he highlights his ability to map out improvement strategies and deliver rapid, tangible results. He believes in utilizing the right tool for the job and not picking a favorite tool or methodology to apply everywhere. ◾Celebrating the Team: He acknowledges the 10th anniversary as a testament to A+I's dedication, perseverance, and decade-long journey and expresses his gratitude to the entire team, past and present, for their dedication, hard work, and loyalty. He has been looking forward to the exciting journey since 2014 and expresses enthusiasm for A+I's future. Let's give a big shoutout to Asim for achieving a major milestone! #AandI #10YearAnniversary #Leadership #Success #Teamwork #ClientSuccess

I had a meeting with a mining executive this morning and this came to mind... Results Don't Come from Focusing on Results As counterintuitive as it may seem, you don't achieve great results by obsessing over results themselves. The key to breakthrough performance lies in cultivating the right habits and behaviours that naturally lead to those outcomes. Too often, leaders fixate on lagging indicators - sales figures, market share, profitability. But these are merely the end products of countless small actions and decisions made day after day. To drive real change, we must shift our attention upstream to the inputs that shape those outputs. Consider the case of Alcoa under Paul O'Neill's leadership in the late 1980s. When O'Neill took over as CEO, he didn't set ambitious financial targets. Instead, he zeroed in on one critical behaviour: workplace safety. By relentlessly focusing on reducing workplace accidents, O'Neill catalysed a cultural transformation that ultimately quintupled the company's income. This principle applies equally to personal development. In a landmark study at University College London, researchers found it takes an average of 66 days to form a new habit. Participants who consistently performed small daily actions eventually automated those behaviours, leading to sustainable long-term changes. The lesson? Stop fixating on the scoreboard and start optimizing your practice. Identify the key habits and behaviours that drive success in your domain. Then design systems and environments that make those behaviours inevitable. Remember, excellence is not an act, but a habit. What daily practices will you commit to today? #Leadership #PersonalDevelopment #OrganizationalChange

We’re excited to feature Vijay K Singh, Group Director of Balasore Alloys Limited, on the cover of our latest issue The Most Inspirational Leaders in Business to look out for 2024. Under Vijay's visionary leadership, Balasore Alloys has excelled in the ferrochrome industry by embracing technology, enhancing system agility, and focusing on sustainability. His strategic approach has positioned the company as a leader in innovation and operational excellence. Click to read more! 🤩 - https://lnkd.in/d_wU2WkE Stay tuned for the digital link to the complete magazine! #OnlinePublication #DigitalSolutions #TheFortuneLeader #OnlineBusinessMagazine #BusinessSolutions #BusinesseMagazineforEntrepreneursinIndia  #GlobalCoverage #thefortuneleader #businessmagazine  #coverstory #Leadership #Innovation #BusinessExcellence #VijayKSingh #BalasoreAlloys #Ferrochrome #Sustainability #TechAdvancement #OperationalExcellence #IndustryLeader #NextGenerationManufacturing #BusinessStrategy #Inspiration