It is a highly unpredictable phenomenon of how and when you come across someone and how someone can touch your lives. I was a school kid when I used to stay in a small coastal town of Gujarat. The only big company known around the place was L&T Cement. Kids in the town would often visit this factory and be awed by its enormous operations. After a few years, we were introduced to the scale Aditya Birla Group works when ABG took over this huge cement manufacturing firm and made it into Ultratech Cement.
For me, Ultratech Cement was something that provided employment to the skilled/unskilled workers of my town. It provided more than just employment opportunity, an opportunity of evolution to the town. ABG with such a huge number of executives working tirelessly and a large clientele helped in setting up of several executive hotels in the town. That increased the number of people getting involved in this culture. It also helped open up English medium schools in the town to accommodate the kids of officers posted in the town. This set up a culture of English Medium academies and the town today has more than 4 such schools. Due to the high requirement of limestone for cement manufacturing, the surrounding limestone-rich area became a creamy estate. The farmers of this barren region now earned money by providing their land for limestone mining and could purchase better lands to till. Town’s port now became more crowded with ships moving in raw materials and moving out the finished product. This unique town where the railway tracks once met now had special cargo trains loading and unloading materials.
This is just one impact a company of this scale achieved unintentionally. With multiple companies and brands across the nation, I just wonder how many lives the Aditya Birla Group would have impacted!
This butterfly effect somehow imbibed in me the importance of your actions. It taught me that the taller you are, bigger is your shadow. You might unknowingly work for the well being while achieving your personal ambitions.