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Filipino Entrepreneurs On Hard Work

by Sonnie Santos | Nov 7, 2007 | Accountable Leadership, Adaptive Thinking, Empathy, People First Culture | 0 comments

I can tell you right now that when you have your own business, 24 hours is not enough. You need hard work to keep your business going

Filipino Entrepreneurs On Customer Satisfaction

by Sonnie Santos | Oct 26, 2007 | Accountable Leadership, Adaptive Thinking, Empathy, People First Culture | 0 comments

Satisfying customers make every business thrive. Here’s what are Pinoy Entrepreneurs have to say about customer happiness.

Filipino Entrepreneurs On Work-Life Balance

by Sonnie Santos | Oct 18, 2007 | Accountable Leadership, Adaptive Thinking, Empathy, People First Culture | 3 comments

Entrepreneurs have tendency to focus too much on their business that they end up neglecting other aspects of their life, specially those that matters most.

Filipino Entrepreneurs On Change

by Sonnie Santos | Oct 15, 2007 | Accountable Leadership, Adaptive Thinking, Change Management, Empathy, People First Culture | 0 comments

Here’s a collection of quotes about “innovation” from respected and well known Filipino Entrepreneurs

Success Quotes From Filipino Entrepreneurs

by Sonnie Santos | Oct 1, 2007 | Accountable Leadership, Adaptive Thinking, Empathy, People First Culture | 10 comments

We read or heard one or two definitions of success. But let’s contextualize our understanding with these success quotes from Filipino Entrepreneurs

CSR: Barrier Free Environment For The Handicapped And The Elderly

by Sonnie Santos | Sep 14, 2007 | Corporate Governance and Compliance, Innovations | 1 comment

Update (10/18/07): An article about the same recognition was written by Princess Daisy Dominga entitled SM Innovations for the Handicapped was published by Philippine Daily Inquirer Sunday Biz on Oct. 14, 2007. Being sensitive to the needs of persons with...

10 Secrets Of Henry Sy’s Success

by Sonnie Santos | May 28, 2007 | Accountable Leadership, Adaptive Thinking, Empathy, People First Culture | 13 comments

I bumped into this article from the company’s intranet portal, effort has been made to provide the URL of the article from Philstar but unsuccessful.

Change Management (1)

by Sonnie Santos | Apr 17, 2007 | Accountable Leadership, Change Management, Spiritual Intelligence | 5 comments

Because of one or more determinants, a tipping point may be created that will result to a season of growth. This will propel business to expand or a blog to increase its bandwidth due to increased readership. Leaders and blog owners must be able to make concrete...

Take It To The Chin

by Sonnie Santos | Mar 12, 2007 | Integrity | 4 comments

I was reading this blog of David Maister and kinda reflect how top management of other corporations would handle issues like this?

14 Work Life Principles of Henry Sy Sr.

by Sonnie Santos | Feb 9, 2007 | Accountable Leadership, Adaptive Thinking, Empathy, People First Culture | 3 comments

Mr. Henry Sy Sr., is one of the tycoons in the Philippines builder of the famous SM Aura. His SM Group is dominant in the Retail, Leisure, Shopping Mall and Bank industry. The 14 Work Life Principles is being considered as the guiding business principle of his family

How to get ahead: Lie and cheat?

by Sonnie Santos | Oct 15, 2006 | Integrity, Spiritual Intelligence | 19 comments

“Lie and cheat” has become an operative keyword in some culture to win or grab an opportunity, or escape trouble. Do we have to live with this culture?

Gokongwei Patriarch leaves half of fortune to charity

by Sonnie Santos | Sep 24, 2006 | Accountable Leadership, Adaptive Thinking, Empathy, People First Culture | 2 comments

Self-made multibillionaire John Gokongwei Jr. is donating half his fortune — at least P20 billion — to charity to mark his 80th birthday and his holding company’s 50th anniversary.

Henry Sy: The Opening of SM Mall of Asia

by Sonnie Santos | May 21, 2006 | Accountable Leadership, Adaptive Thinking, Empathy, People First Culture | 3 comments

Henry Sy Sr. believed there is an opportunity from every tragedy– thus, it became one of the blueprints of his business strategy.

Save Your Ass or Do What is Right?

by Sonnie Santos | Mar 18, 2006 | Accountable Leadership, Corporate Governance and Compliance, Empathy, People First Culture | 0 comments

Covering-up our mistakes is a human trait that can be traced back to Adam. But doing what is right offer a better value to our character

How Integrity is Demonstrated in the Workplace

by Sonnie Santos | May 21, 2005 | Accountable Leadership, Integrity, Sonnie's Talks | 20 comments

most companies showcase integrity as one of their values in bulletin boards, but that’s how far the integration of integrity is to the corporate culture

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