Micro Entrepreneurship 2.0

Something to think about as we welcome 2010

Sonnie Leadership & Management Quotes That Coach

The reason why we are in business is we wanted to create wealth for ourselves and others.

In every business, there are partners who do business for you and with you. They can either be your supplier, tenant, distributor, franchisee etc. The survival of each unit is supposedly interdependent to each other. Thus, the extra ordinary relationship exist between the two (or even more). Unfortunately, instead of working together, a handful try to outwit each other, and some even cheat, just to get a bigger share of the pie.

One thing I learned when I worked with SM for almost 10 years is the synergy among the different business units. Though diversified, each business compliment each other. A typical SM Supermall will not be complete without the presence of the other units such as Banco De Oro, Department Store, Hypermarket/Supermarket, Cinema etc, the anchor affiliates. While there are some kinks in an intertwined operations such as theirs, the advantages outweighs the cons. SM will not be SM had not been for that business model. Aside from the sister companies, there are partners who grew with SM as it expands locally, and abroad. These were nobodies, then, when SM was still small.

There may be some friendly competition, but this should not in anyway result to animosity, all because of money.

Sonnie Leadership & Management Mantra

I have been blogging about HR Roles in the past days– on termination related errors, new HR roles, the irony (if not comedy) of being employee champions. I would like to add a new one having been privileged to be part of ECOPs (Employers Confederation of the Philippines) and ILOs (International Labor Organization) advocacy on CSR or Corporate Social Responsibility.

Though CSR is the primary responsibility of the investors, an emerging new role of HR in the Philippines and developing countries could be in the making– to be in the forefront of advocating CSR or Corporate Social Responsibility.

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Sonnie Leadership & Management CSR