A few years back, a nightmare woke me up at 3 am in the morning. That thought was “What am I doing with my life?”. I was in my early twenties following the herd mentality, doing what everybody else around me was doing, without creating any impact. What happened? Growing up, I always dreamt of creating an impact on this world and making it a better place. But at that moment I felt like I was changing nothing; just surviving.
Aditya Birla Group has become synonymous with luxury these days with Brands like Forever 21, Allen Solly, Pantaloons and many more. Gone are the days when the group’s core competency was restricted to a few segements. Under the dynamic leadership of Mr. Kumaramangalam Birla, the group has diversified into fashion, telecom, Financial Services, Metals while retaining it’s core competency which is the cement business. Aditya birla group touches more people’s lives everyday in more ways than one can imagine. To quote a few figures, Every second car in the world has a tyre which is made from Birla carbon, Every third aluminium can is made from novelis aluminium and Vodafone Idea is the world’s second largest telecom operator. However, despite such rapid strides the group still adheres to resposible business practises and at it’s core believes in stakeholder value creation.
The conglomerate, Aditya Birla Group touches lives of millions of individuals in India and around the world. So has it mine. With products spread across diverse sectors, ranging from textiles to telecom, cement to finance, it plays an important role in individual’s lives as well as economy as a whole.
Challenges are the staircase to engagement and progress in our lives. We all have challenges. We have to face them, embrace them, defy them, and then conquer them. Challenges bring out the real version of ourselves, they chisel us and helps us shine brighter.
We, humans, have evolved from thousands of years. Evolving, improving, adapting day by day year by year and are still evolving. Evolution didn’t happen in the course of a few years or a few centuries as a matter of fact. Every day, every minute we as humans found something extraordinary in ordinary and constantly improved ourselves. Similarly, the key to success is improving, adapting and most importantly finding something extraordinary in the ordinary.
Well, challenges are a part of everyone’s life be it commoner like me or someone special like Mr. Kumar Mangalam Birla and it’s been said that the way you approach a challenge is what defines you. I have a little different perspective on this you don’t have to have an approach for every challenge you face the only thing that you got to do is say “YES” to every challenge and then figure out how to go about it.
Aditya Birla Group working with a mission to deliver superior values to the customers, shareholders, employees and society at large, has touched upon the lives of every Indian, in whichever domain you look around. With over seven decades of responsible work, their business has grown into various sectors. In textile, brands such as Allen Solly and Van Heusen have huge customer bases, similar is the case with the Cement Industry, where Ultratech is considered as a synonym for cement. They have also made a mark in sectors such as telecom, Aluminium etc.
Kumar Mangalam Birla believes that we must follow our passion and do something which is close to our heart, in order to be successful and happy.
