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West Red Lake Gold (WRLG.V) CEO Shane Williams on Building a Team
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[{"type":"text","content":"West Red Lake Gold (WRLG.V) CEO Shane Williams on Building a Team\n \n \n (TheNewswire)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n January 23, 2024 – TheNewswire – Global Stocks News – In a\nJanuary 18, 2024 message to West Red Lake Gold Mines (TSXV:WRLG)\n(OTC:WRLGF) shareholders, CEO Shane Williams explained his team\nbuilding strategy.\n \n \n The unedited contents of that message are printed below.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n “As the CEO of West Red Lake Gold (WRLG), my first\ntask was to assemble a management team to bring this asset back into\nproduction.\n \n \n \n \n A typical deck of a Canadian mining company features a\ngalaxy of mature executives in their 50s and 60s.  The last wave of\nsuccessful precious metal companies was run by baby boomers.  Major\nand mid-tier mining companies have log jams of younger talent begging\nto be unleashed.\n \n \n \n \n We set out to assemble a young, energetic, highly\nskilled team. To achieve this goal, we did not rely on LinkedIn, or\nmining recruitment agencies. One of the advantages of working with\nFrank Giustra’s group is that it has connections with a lot of\nresource companies.  People were recommended to us through word of\nmouth.\n \n \n \n \n Let’s be clear: youth + confidence + ambition ≠\nexpertise.  Many young professionals desperately want to be\nleaders.  They are impatient.  They show up to meetings and talk\nlike leaders, but they get quickly found out. A career in the\n \n \n mining industry is not a game of Snakes &\nLadders. You can’t bypass any of the squares.\n \n \n \n \n To function effectively as a manager for an underground\nmining company, you need to have spent a lot of time underground.  We\nlooked for young managers who have worked in the trenches, done the\nhard yards. There is no shortcut to leadership.  I’m privileged to\nbe the CEO of WRLG, but it took me 25 years to get here.  I\nwouldn’t have been ready 20 years ago, or 10.\n \n \n \n \n Experience and talent are obligatory, but an equally\nimportant quality is attitude.  That’s in you or it isn’t. The\ndesire to succeed, to improve, to learn from your mistakes and to keep\ngoing. No amount of techni...