Mo Guanliang: Entrepreneur who puts being a person above doing business
Dongguan businessmen are one of the fastest-rising, dynamic and influential groups among contemporary Cantonese businessmen. Low-key, pragmatic, and modest are the hallmarks of Dongguan businessmen. Chairman of Guangdong Mingguan Group Co., Ltd., members of the 9th, 10th and 11th sessions of the Guangdong Provincial Political Consultative Conference, Vice President of Guangdong Enterprise Federation, Vice Chairman of Dongguan Federation of Industry and Commerce (General Chamber of Commerce), Jiangmen Federation of Industry and Commerce (General Chamber of Commerce) Mo Guanliang, honorary chairman and vice chairman of Wuyi Charity Foundation, is a native of Dongguan, born in the 1970s. In him, we can see the spirit of "being virtuous and pragmatic and dare to be the first" of the Wan businessmen. What is even more shining is the confidence of the new generation of Wan businessmen who are humble, calm and hardworking, and abide by the traditions but are not affected by it. Restrictions, re-engraving of classics is more than just classics.
As the eldest son of the family, Mo Guanliang, taking over the enterprise founded by his father was a determined and clear life goal when he was young. He knew his goal like this: to become a good entrepreneur like a father. Be clear about what you want to do in the future, plus love for the construction industry. University, he applied for the Guangdong Provincial Institute of Civil Engineering. With a clear understanding of the goal, the preparation will be more clear and complete. During the entire university from 1988 to 1992, during weekends and winter and summer vacations, he must have helped take care of the business in the construction company run by his father, while practicing the theoretical knowledge learned in school, and studying hard under his father's careful guidance. And accumulate business management experience. In addition to my major, I also spend a lot of time learning new industry knowledge, covering hotel services, steel structure engineering, color-coated board manufacturing, port logistics and real estate, etc. In terms of interpersonal communication, he has always followed his father's teachings, agreed with the principle that doing business means being a person, actively expanding resources in the business circle, and accumulating contacts in all aspects for the development of the company.
In the more than ten years after graduation, he assisted his father to expand the territory and build the Guangdong Mingguan Group, which has begun to take shape, and initially formed the pattern of four major sectors: hotel services, real estate construction, port logistics and industrial intelligent manufacturing.
In 2004, when he received the baton passed from his father, he suddenly felt that the burden on his shoulders became extremely heavy. However, he knows that a generation has its ideals and a generation’s mission. Being born in a prosperous age, he will live up to his youth.
Although he has the shadow of his father, more often we still see Mo Guanliang who dares to try and innovate ideas and is different from his father. For example, not long after taking over the group, he felt distressed that his knowledge reserve could not keep up with the development of the company, so he made up his mind to enter the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business for an EMBA in 2006, and immediately started to do three things after returning from his studies in 2008. : The first is to rebuild the organization structure of the group enterprise according to the modern enterprise model, and clarify the rights, responsibilities, and benefits of the group headquarters and all levels of the enterprise; the second is to change the personnel, procurement and finance of each enterprise to the direct management of the group’s central government, allowing the enterprise to focus on production and Sales; The third is to cooperate with institutionalized management thinking, introduce ERP information management system, and group companies realize standardized, process-oriented, and paperless management. Later, he went to Shanghai Jiaotong University to study EMBA in finance, and did his homework for group companies to connect with the financial capital market. Influenced by modern business administration, he took a different route from his father. From the time when my father was in charge of the group, he mainly relied on the family to manage the enterprise, and embarked on the road of separating enterprise ownership and management. The family members mainly focused on investment decision-making, and the specific production and operation affairs were based on modern corporate standards. , Hire professional managers to manage.
After continuous hard exploration and pragmatic hard work, Mo Guanliang has led the company to diversify development, forming five core businesses of hotel services, real estate construction, port logistics, industrial intelligence, and cultural and sports education. Junkai Real Estate, Huayu Steel Structure and Civil Engineering, Xinhui Port Terminal and Logistics, Huaguan New Material Manufacturing and Mingguan Education have become a large diversified group company with more than 20 companies.
Also on the road of continuous development of the group, Mo Guanliang also accurately recognized the importance of corporate culture construction and elevated the work of corporate culture construction as part of the group's strategy. In the long development process of the group, he, like most private entrepreneurs, has experienced three stages of zero awareness, imitating and system construction in the construction of corporate culture. After constant thinking, he put forward the "one book and three requirements", namely: people-oriented, seeking truth, seeking innovation, and seeking the core corporate culture philosophy.
He believes that the people-oriented concept is the same in modern enterprises. Enterprises cannot develop without capital or people. Only by treating employees well can employees have a sense of belonging, which inspires a steady stream of motivation for the company. Escorted by sustainable operation. Therefore, the core of the corporate culture of the group is first to focus on "people". Seeking truth, seeking innovation, and seeking progress are the emphasis and supplement to the core concept of "people". In the process of enterprise development, false and empty behaviors of one kind or another will inevitably occur. If the enterprise blindly tolerates the "fake", then the "true" will not be able to gain a foothold, and the enterprise will blow up bad trends and endanger the survival of the enterprise. In his view, while advocating the "good" of human nature, companies must stand firmly against the "evil" of human nature, let fraud and deception lose the soil for growth, and make the concept of "seeking truth" thrive in the hearts of employees.
Group companies have their own characteristics. Some emphasize technology leadership, some emphasize service leadership, and some emphasize both. He believes that the innovative thinking of employees is an important support to promote the realization of the business strategy of the enterprise. An employee’s ability to innovate in a position may not have much impact on the company. If every employee can "seeking newness" and exert innovative thinking in their respective positions, the impetus for the development of the company will probably be impossible Estimated.
The last one is "seeking progress". Seeking progress is the foundation for mankind to become the ruler of the earth, and learning is the magic weapon to make progress. He is the firm practitioner and beneficiary of "learning to develop". Facts have proved that the new knowledge and new thinking he learned have greatly helped him manage the group. Therefore, he insists on providing employees with good learning conditions, so that employees in different positions have the opportunity to learn and improve. The more knowledge employees learn, the more their own value will increase, the greater their contribution to the company, and a win-win situation. the result of.
Be a responsible entrepreneur
"Be responsible" is Mo Guanliang's motto. He said: "An important quality that a good entrepreneur needs is to be responsible: to be responsible for the family, no matter how busy he is, he must take time to spend time with his family; to be responsible for his friends, and friends must help them if they need it. Responsible to the enterprise, we must do a good job in the enterprise, create more jobs, and at the same time make the employees affordable; Responsible to the society, do more charity to give back to the hometown." The late famous patriot, Hong Kong well-known entrepreneur, philanthropist Huo Yingdong Mr. Huo is his spiritual idol. In terms of patriotism, business operation and charity, Mr. Huo's words and deeds have a profound influence on him. He said: "Fok Yingdong is a role model for my life." On the way to leading the company, Mo Guan is committed to public welfare, is willing to give, and actively participates in various charitable activities such as poverty alleviation, respect for the elderly, education assistance, disaster relief, etc., as a local charity organization Donated nearly 8 million yuan, donated more than 5 million yuan to the Mingguan Education Charity Fund, and donated nearly 2 million yuan to the Wenchuan earthquake and Yushu earthquake disaster areas. According to incomplete statistics, in the past ten years, his charitable donations to support the construction of social welfare undertakings have totaled more than 30 million yuan.
It's hard to start a business, it's even harder to keep a business, and it's even harder to keep going. Regarding the future development, he said that the group will follow the core strategy of "survive, develop, and become stronger", and will not blindly expand or pursue short-term benefits. Seeking progress while maintaining stability is the keynote of the group. The current epidemic has had a certain impact on China’s economy, but under the strong leadership of the party and the government, this war against the epidemic has achieved a phased victory. At the same time, the group Companies, like most companies in China, act with all employees and actively carry out self-help.All regions are also introducing assistance policies. Assist enterprises to tide over difficulties. He believes that the epidemic cannot stop the Chinese people from building a well-off society. In the future, Guangdong Mingguan Group will also make new and greater contributions to the local economy.
Famous crowns, famous crowns, we are determined to become the famous crown in private enterprises. When asked about the meaning of the group's name "Famous Crown", he said so.
This article was published in the April 2020 issue of Southern Entrepreneur Magazine
