Beyond individuals
WE as individual persons provide the mass base. Individual governance “warriors” provide the base for our governance advocacy for Dream PH. The wider and more solid this base, the more assured we shall be of success in our effort to build a country more in line with our dreams. The more Filipinos we have who struggle each day through the use of a personal scorecard for personal improvement and development with a view towards them becoming the ultimate governance assets of our country, the more certain we can be of building our Dream PH.
Individuals need not be left alone to fend for themselves. They can be helped, encouraged, and guided so they become much more effective in pursuing the different priorities under various facets, which they have included in their personal scorecard. That help and support can be given by the enterprises for which they work.
These enterprises — whether in business, government, or civil society — can be of great help if they themselves have adopted a transformation road map. This governance initiative, using a transformation road map, aims at bringing the enterprise to an altogether higher level, where its governance practices are institutionalized and thus are able to deliver the transformative outcomes needed to make them strong, resilient, sustainable institutions.
Philippine enterprises in business, government, or civil society should respond to the invitation to be very much an integral part of the process dedicated to building Dream PH. There are at least3 ways by which they can respond positively:
• Draw up their own transformation road map with a view towards institutionalizing their own governance practices, which should enable them to deliver the transformative outcomes for them to become the ultimate development agents for the country.In this regard, they may seek guidance and assistance from either the Institute for Solidarity in Asia or the Institute of Corporate Directors.
• Install a focused governance program within the enterprise that aims to make all the working teams within the enterprise as efficient and effective as possible. These teams can adopt the best practices that solidarity and team work indicate and demand, such that they become the ultimate performance delivery units for the enterprise. The stronger its working teams are, the stronger the enterprise becomes as an institution.
• Conduct a governance outreach program pitched to the families of all individual team members working within the enterprise. This outreach program aims to share all the key solidarity lessons and best practices — learned and observed by the enterprise working teams — with the family of each of the team members. The spirit of solidarity observed both at work and at home can provide a more congenial and productive environment within which any individual team member can thrive, prosper, and be happy.
Let us appreciate the prospect that can be before us: of enterprises assisting and facilitating individuals to adopt a personal scorecard; of enterprises pursuing a governance program through a well formulated and executed transformation road map; of enterprises reinvigorating all its working teams with the spirit of solidarity that is concretized through their delivery of transformative performance outcomes: and of enterprises undertaking an outreach program so that such spirit of solidarity extends to the family of each of the individual members of the working teams.
How can such a prospect fail to help deliver the PH of our dreams? With enterprises from all three sectors of any polity and economy — business, government, and civil society — giving flesh and concrete substance to these good governance imperatives, how indeed could we lose hope in realizing Dream PH?