Victory Energy — a well deserved victory
When asked what success is for him, John Viskup brilliantly answered: ”Constantly striving to achieve the goals that we have set in place; we believe that the moment we stop moving towards our goals, we become the obstacle.”
Similar with Heisenberg’s keen observation on quantum physics*, John intuitively knew that moving towards the set goals and achieving success are conjugate variables. Once one stops moving, the other one stops happening.
John Viskup and his partner – Jim Sponder – established Victory Energy back in 1999. It may seem like a long time ago, if you omit to understand what it takes to build a company in the manufacturing sector — and we don’t mean Just Any Company, but A Leading boiler supplier within the ethanol industry .
To best understand the dynamic of Victory Energy, let’s put an HR lens on. Looking through the HR lens, the growth of Victory Energy from 3 employees (back in 1999) to 320 employees (in 2008) looks like this: 317 employees hired in about 9 years, which in average means about 35 new employees per year, which further means about 3 new employees each month, which it’s not simple when we talk about manufacturing boilers. But this is only a way to look at it, the other way to look at it is: add perseverance, energy and time to a great idea and you have produced yourself a Success.
Note*: Heisenberg’s Uncertainty principle says that the values of certain pairs of conjugate variables (position and momentum, for instance) cannot both be known with arbitrary precision
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