Capturing Passion in the Supply Chain Profession

Technologist and innovator Steve Jobs shared his wisdom with graduates of Stanford University in a 2005 address.

You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle…

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

You can see the entire speech here:

The man had a point.  It’s worth spending time to figure out what you are good at because passion shows in the job you do. However, you can’t spend your entire life looking for it. Passionate people imbue their work with a quality that is measurably different than those who complete the task in order to go home. Passionate people focus on quality. They want to stamp what they do with their unique signature. They have energy and a sparkle in their eyes.  Passionate people go the extra mile automatically. By comparison, those working for just a paycheck lack engagement. There is no love, no energy, no sparkle, no extra mile.

If a team enjoys the work they are doing, you can see it. They have fun, laugh, help each other, defend each other, and even eat together (eating together brings out the tender side of people). Research proves that teams with high levels of communication produce better results.

Further, when passionate people come together, it creates a great work environment. It’s contagious and spreads through the entire organization. The whole becomes greater than the sum of the parts—the dream of the best leaders and managers.

Remember, leaders and managers are inherently different. Leaders manage people, while managers simply manage processes. Processes, ideally, are all the same and provide constant results. People, on the other hand, are much different. These emotional beings behave differently in different circumstances. Emotional connection is transformational. When people understand and empathize with each other, they help and defend each other and work together well. Resentment creates imbalance. That’s why it’s important that teams have leaders. When there is a great leader that truly inspires the team, sky is the limit for what the team can accomplish.

Sometimes, it’s better to take a job that arouses your passion, even if it pays less. Don’t do something just for the money. Following your passion leads to being the best. People pay more for the best in business. So, if you do your job passionately, you’ll get more business. In the end, it is the recipe for long-term success.

Let me share the hallmarks of passionate people:

  • You do a great job (and people notice).
  • You go the extra mile.
  • You are happy, and its contagious. You end up working with happier and more satisfied people. And people seek you out and want to be part of what you are doing. The momentum builds naturally.
  • Your creativity blossoms. You come up with new ideas and you share them with others.
  • You automatically innovate. You find new ways for doing things faster and more efficiently.
  • Your work speaks for yourself.  Word gets around and people talk about your work, so you are recognized as a leader. Opportunities tend to find you.
  • You give more and get more. It’s just good karma.

You know that you are not passionate when:

  • You finish work just to get it done.
  • You just want to go home.
  • You don’t go the extra mile.
  • You spend work time thinking about anything but work.
  • You focus on salary or payment—and compare what you make to others all the time.
  • You get distracted by compliments or rewards that others receive and resent that you are not being noticed.

In short, do what you love or learn to love what you are doing. Don’t waste time on things that don’t fuel your passion.

When I started my career, my dream was to establish my own factory. I studied mechanical engineering with an eye toward figuring out the best ways to manufacture products. I was crazy about cars when I was young, so my plan was to manufacture for that industry. By the time I got out of school, though, the world was talking about computers. It was a well-paid field and presented opportunities. The definition of success at the end of four-year degree was to get a job in a multinational company as a software engineer, so that’s what I did. I didn’t enjoy it much. I was not passionate, even though I tried. Then, I had a chance to interview with a company in the United States—so I started studying and preparing in my after-work hours. I was passionate about this opportunity and it happened fast. In a few months, I had a new company, new career, and new industry. I was programming systems to run entire distribution centers. I felt at home—no longer a stranger in the workplace. I had fun. I worked with enthusiasm and independence. I thought about what I could do to make things better for our customers. I had found a greater purpose. I was making a difference in people’s lives by helping them do their jobs better. I connected emotionally with what I was doing.

The high-tech industry has a slew of examples of passionate people who did astonishing thing. All you have to do is read the early stories of really successful companies. Behind every great product and company are hard work and sacrifice. Steve Jobs was hell bent on making the best computers in the whole world. Similarly, the founder of Infosys, Narayana Murthy slogged for 10 years before making it. At Tesla, Elon Musk went almost bankrupt multiple times building his cars.

Developing great products, building great companies is incredibly hard. No sane person would do it, or even attempt it. Passion drives this kind of success.

Passionate, determined, committed teams inspired by the great cause and emotionally connected can make miracles happen. That is how great organizations are built and that is why often you hear great leaders and CEOs say that the most important thing in any organization is the people.

So what is your experience? How did you build passion for your supply chain role? What were the best lessons you’ve learned from your leaders and mentors? Let us know in the comments section below.

Originally published at Smartgladiator.com on Aug 8, 2016.

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Puga Sankara is the Founder, CEO of Smart Gladiator LLC. Smart Gladiator designs, builds, and delivers market-leading mobile technology for retailers, distributors, and 3PL service providers. So far, Smart Gladiator LoadProof has been used to ship, receive, and scan more than 100 million boxes. SG LoadProof is a patent pending Centralized Enterprise Photo/Video Document System on Cloud for Supply Chain. SG LP is built on the fact that photos & videos are vital docs as important as POs/SOs/Legal Contracts/Fulfillment Orders that reside in ERP/WMS/TMS systems, that serve as compelling, conclusive, unequivocal proof of crucial, critical, vital operations executed in Supply Chain within/across orgs when fulfilling customer orders as well as meeting contractual obligations between orgs as merchandise is transferred between different parties that partake in Supply Chain functions & operations. And these photos/videos data should not be stored in someone’s Smartphone or Email Inbox or in their personal/work Computer, but should be stored in a Centralized Enterprise system, where such data can be pushed into super-fast, stored securely, accessible to all stake holders (CFO/Sales Reps/Customer Support/AR/AP) in an org, as well as facilitates super-fast retrieval/sharing. LP is an Enterprise System of record for Photo/Video docs & is as important as an ERP which is an enterprise system of record for POs, SOs, Legal Contracts between parties etc. that have huge legal ramifications, also as important as a WMS (Warehouse Management System) that hold indispensable shipment & fulfillment data on orders. Like how Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat etc. have evolved into social media platforms/systems that enable individuals to showcase their beauty/pretty clothes/lovely cosmetics/hep coolness etc., LoadProof is an Enterprise system that holds similar photos/videos, but for a different reason, not for show off, but to serve as compelling, conclusive, unequivocal & indisputable system of record and proof that can be presented even in the court of law, when there is a dispute between parties while they execute many facets of the Supply Chain functions & operations. SG LoadProof is also an Enterprise System of Record for Photos, videos and any other digital documents for your Supply Chain Network. A system of record (SOR) or source system of record (SSoR) is a data management term for an information storage system (commonly implemented on a computer system running a database management system) that is the authoritative data source for a given data element or piece of information. The need to identify systems of record can become acute in organizations where management information systems have been built by taking output data from multiple source systems, re-processing this data, and then re-presenting the result for new business use. In these cases, multiple information systems may disagree about the same piece of information. These disagreements may stem from semantic differences, differences in opinion, use of different sources, and differences in the timing of the extract, transform, and load processes that create the data they report against, or may simply be the result of bugs. The integrity and validity of any data set is open to question when there is no traceable connection to a good source, such as a known System of Record. Where the integrity of the data is vital, if there is an agreed system of record, the data element must either be linked to, or extracted directly from it. In other cases, the provenance and estimated data quality should be documented. The “system of record” approach is a good fit for environments where both: 1. there is a single authority over all data consumers, and 2. all consumers have similar needs Here, LoadProof is the System of Record for pictures and videos for all the entities in Supply chain who uses pictures and videos to track using any Supply Chain System infrastructure. 1. LoadProof provides accurate, thorough, complete, and latest information in pictures and videos related to any entity in the Supply chain that is tracked. 2. LoadProof is the single authority on pictures and videos related to any entity in the Supply Chain that is tracked 3. LoadProof doesn’t let any external system to copy the records being stored in it, which eliminates the data being duplicated in multiple places to preserve the data integrity and credibility. 4. LoadProof has a secured login procedure which lets only users with select level access to view the data and modify the records which helps in maintaining LoadProof is becoming the Industry Standard System for Photo & Video Docs for Supply Chain Smart Gladiator is located in ATDC - Advanced Tech Dev Center (tech Incubator) in Georgia Institute of Tech. Click for a demo - https://loadproof.com/apply Puga is a supply chain technology professional with more than 25 years of experience in deploying capabilities in the logistics and supply chain domain. His prior roles involved managing complicated mission-critical programs driving revenue numbers, rolling out a multitude of capabilities involving more than a dozen systems, and managing a team of 30 to 50 personnel across multiple disciplines and departments in large corporations such as Hewlett Packard. He has deployed WMS for more than 30 distribution centers in his role as a senior manager with Manhattan Associates. He has also performed process analysis walk-throughs for more than 50 distribution centers for WMS process design and performance analysis review, optimizing processes for better productivity and visibility through the supply chain. Size of these DCs varied from 150,000 to 1.2 million SQFT. Puga Sankara has an MBA from Georgia Tech. He can be reached at puga@smartgladiator.com or visit the company at www.smartgladiator.com. Also follow him at www.pugasankara.com. [Read More]
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