March 28, 2024
Why I look for ‘leaders’ and not ‘managers’: Ab...
By Abhyuday Jindal, Managing Director, Jindal Stainless Growing up in a household full of visionaries was quite an exceptional experience. Most know that the story of my company, Jindal Stainless, began when my grandfather, O P Jindal, started a humble bucket manufacturing unit in 1952. He was a man that everyone looked up to. Even […]
October 31, 2023
Mental Health Matters: How A Silent Crisis Is A...
By Abhyuday Jindal, Managing Director, Jindal Stainless Over the years, I have seen the change in how people look at it. And it has changed for good. Organizations are now more receptive towards accommodating their employees’ mental well-being. However, there is still a long way to go. According to a report by McKinsey, one in […]
September 17, 2023
How engineers can help India fast-track its sus...
While growing up, I cultivated a deep interest in engineers, admiring their ability to construct things and tackle global challenges. Today, I work with them on a daily basis and their unwavering commitment continues to inspire me. Recently, my engagement with the Graduate Engineering Training cohort of 2022-23 at one of our facilities rekindled my […]
September 8, 2023
Leaders Speak | Sustainable living – why ...
By Abhyuday Jindal, Managing Director, Jindal Stainless How do you feel when you see news headlines of sinking places, houses falling into raging rivers, and small towns disappearing from the face of the earth? Scared and small! That’s what I feel. I feel minuscule when I contemplate the vast expanse of the universe. We are these microscopic tiny […]
June 18, 2023
A letter to my daughter
As I see you grow up with each passing day, I can’t help but remember how I little I can do for you, my child. How little is my control over the world you’re growing up in, or how little I can do to protect you from the challenges that will come your way. With […]
June 6, 2023
The Risk of Not Taking Risks
It was in the last week of November 2022 that a caller in my quarterly townhall meeting, Sampark, posed a question. She asked, how did I take risks and how did I measure their outcomes. It was an interesting question. There were upfront easy answers, but none that would satisfy the query in a single […]
March 26, 2023
Why Corporate India Needs to Foster Better Slee...
By Mr Sushil Baveja, CHRO, Jindal Stainless In my professional journey of more than three decades, I have met people who are highly driven and at the peak of their careers, some others who want to prove their worth, and quite a few dedicated and steadfast to their professions. Of late, I have encountered a […]
April 2, 2021
Taking the road less travelled
Paving way for environmentally sustainable practices in the metal manufacturing sector I was intrigued by the sheer quantum of Environmental Clearance documents while reviewing the project for capacity expansion at our Jajpur facility in the state of Odisha. The volume of the terms and conditions detailed in that document is indicative of the environmental scrutiny […]
March 9, 2021
Why is it time to give a ‘scrap’!
India is the second-largest producer of steel and stainless steel in the world. As a critical sector contributing to India’s GDP, the steel industry is integral to the growth of the economy. A lower per capita consumption of stainless steel in India (~2.5 kgs), compared to the global average (~6 kgs) ensures an endless scope […]
February 4, 2021
Jindal Saathi 2.0
1. In Phase 1 of Jindal Saathi, we saw the company came out with a co-branding initiative that was introduced to defeat the counterfeit market for stainless steel, and to make high-quality stainless steel pipes and tubes reach the end customer. With the company now in Phase 2 of this campaign, please throw some light […]
February 4, 2021
Jindal Saathi 2.0
1. What was the need for Jindal Stainless to come out with this strategy of co-branding (Jindal Saathi)? Counterfeiting has remained a major issue for our industry in the past couple of years. As a result of this, the end customer is the one who has to pay a price. Manufacturers are selling low-quality stainless steel […]
January 19, 2021
Embracing new technology is inevitable for sust...
In an interaction with Industry Outlook magazine (December 2020), Director, Jindal Stainless (Hisar) Limited, Mr Jagmohan Sood shares his views on the current trends in the stainless steel industry and the role of new technology adoption in its evolution. 1. India emerged as the second largest crude producer of stainless steel. How do you see […]
December 1, 2020
When Jindal Stainless made the elephant dance
It is true that every business exists because it caters to an outside reason or need. It is equally true that as the business grows, it shapes up like a behemoth that starts working for itself, as a complex web of interlinked organs. And it is precisely at this point in time that a transformation […]
December 1, 2020
Embracing Digital
The principles for ensuring a smooth amalgamation of technology into the workplace In today’s highly digitized world, technology is no longer limited to our workspaces; it invades every aspect of our lives, and has immeasurable influence on our thoughts and actions. Technology today is evolving faster than it ever did before, and in the process, […]
November 17, 2020
Masterful Management
Recrafting leadership at Jindal Stainless Continuous learning is critical to us at Jindal Stainless. Training sessions need to pass through a three-layer test: they need to be simple, engaging and effective (SEE). I must confess that till about two years ago, we met at best with moderate success. The biggest gap, we found, was the […]
September 14, 2020
Morphing into the New Normal
The crisis created by the COVID-19 pandemic is resetting human lives and the eco-system governing it in an unprecedented way. Individuals and families as well as employees and organizations are experiencing a new way of living, connecting, and working. I see it as nature’s rule of creative destruction to initialize this new way of living and […]
August 8, 2020
The Golden Triangle of Customer Focus
COVID-19, a pandemic of such global proportions, is the first, and hopefully the last, being witnessed by living generations today. Not just stainless steel manufacturing, it has affected every single industry in one way or the other. As we come to grapple with the many uncertainties that have emerged from this disease, there is at […]
May 18, 2020
The silver lining beyond the cloud
As uncertainty looms over the domestic manufacturing sector given the pandemic, the Indian stainless steel industry is coming to terms with the new normal. In an interview with Stainless Post, Director, Jindal Stainless, Mr Vijay Sharma explains how every calamity hides an opportunity and what lies ahead for the stainless steel industry. How has COVID-19 […]
December 15, 2019
Leader: A True Learner
‘True leaders understand that leadership is not about them but about those they serve. It is not about exalting themselves but about lifting others up.’ – Sheri L Dew Leaders are fundamentally learners. However, a true leader is one who does not only lead but nurtures everyone around her by the equality of her actions and […]
November 15, 2019
S.A.V.E Is The New 4P Of Marketing – The ...
The storyline of Sholay, an iconic Bollywood film, is so simple that it can be narrated and written in not more than five sentences. Its screen time, however, is 3.5 hours! The secret behind this is the art of curating and creating real characters, revealing the psyche of each character and fleshing out typical mannerisms […]
December 5, 2018
The Importance Of Social Selling
“Out of sight, out of mind”This phenomenon holds true for the landscape of social media which is constantly reorienting itself. Any company that is not ‘persistently visible’ in the digital eyes of the public, is bound to turn redundant after a point of time. A company is identified with the people behind it. For example, […]
September 24, 2018
Sports Teach Everything That Management Can
“You learn more from losing than winning. You learn how to keep going.” – Morgan Wootten. It is not a hidden fact that sports encompass dynamics of a human life. There is nothing that sports cannot teach us about conducting our personal as well as professional life. According to me, here are some of the […]
August 20, 2018
Cutting Through Corporate Bureaucracy
Bureaucracy is a set of processes and operations, used and followed in order to have work approved and recorded in an organization. It is a tool that allows people to manage great power to help the business to move forward. However, with great powers come great responsibilities, and when the ability to make decisions falls […]