Comments for Jose Ruiz

Comment on Mexico Recovering on Manufacturing Momentum by Jose Ruiz

Jose Ruiz — Fri, 21 May 2010 20:34:19 +0000

The source for the information is INEGI and Bloomberg.

Comment on Mexico Recovering on Manufacturing Momentum by Ed Juline

Ed Juline — Thu, 20 May 2010 23:02:29 +0000

Jose,
What’s the source on this article?
Ed

Comment on Quick Hint: An MBA will not make you a manager by Carlos Cazares

Carlos Cazares — Thu, 13 May 2010 16:18:50 +0000

I agreed that a MBA title would not give you an automatic manager position. However, it would make it easy for you. During a MBA program the individuals would learn and share real life experience that would empower and develop new skills. At the same time they would understand structured methodologies to really hve a positive impact in the companies.Otherwise would take longer.

Comment on The public lynching of Carlos Slim by Rafael Cabrera

Rafael Cabrera — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 01:33:29 +0000

José,

Spot on in your observation about those at the top, though lamentable.

About the allegory, also lamentable from the Mexican side of the boarder. Fortunately my experience here has been that Mexicans help other Mexicans. As a Colombian, I have been accepted well in many Mexican circles.

Thanks for accepting my request on Mexico Construction Industry LinkedIn!

Suerte este año!

Comment on Liderazgo en situaciones de riesgo by Gerson Galaviz

Gerson Galaviz — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:22:41 +0000

Sin duda un líder debe tener todas las características que mencionas José, me gustaría compartirte algo que he notado en la dirección de equipos.

A lo largo de algunos años, dirigiendo equipos de trabajo, enfocado a operaciones de tiendas de conveniencia, hemos aprendido que el tema de la sinceridad en el líder(que mencionas en tu artículo), representa una divisa de altísimo valor para con el equipo. Hemos visto que los líderes de mayor empuje, e impacto a las operaciones en tienda, son aquellos que tienen una mayor inteligencia emocional, una mayor capacidad de pensar fuera de la presión que representa la ejecución diaria y el alcance de objetivos, y que logra bajar información y supervisar las actividades sin sobresaltos emocionales.

Me ha gustado mucho tu artículo y agradezco el que lo compartas, y no quería dejar de comentarte algunos aprendizajes que hemos tenido.

Recibe un cordial saludo y agradezco.

Comment on The public lynching of Carlos Slim by Abatere

Abatere — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:23:18 +0000

Is there an alternative better than this one? Will Mexico be a better country without Carlos Salim (yes Salim)? And the employees?

Comment on Is change management about to change? by Robbie Howarth

Robbie Howarth — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:38:38 +0000

Jose
I have been working in lean/kaizen/CI environments now for 19 years and the one area that I feel is missed or not understood fully is the area around senior managers (CEO, COO, MD’s, VP’s etc.) and middle managers and that is when we talk about ‘change’, I rarely see any real change in behaviours, there is still a need of managers to keep the status quo, I rarely if ever see behavioural change and I do not see managers being taught to implement lean on the “shop floor” getting their hands dirty, I am constantly amazed to see senior managers thinking they can implement lean from their offices..!
Alongside change I do not see real leadership, leadership with charisma, and an attitide of we can do this but we managers need to come down to your levels and work with you
Why do we still have offices seperate from the shop floor, workers expect to see small, simplistic, expectations of managers working with workers, we also do not seed managers realisation that operators can be trusted to control data, facts, and finance. The worker can do it at home with tghe house, finance, childrens safety, etc. but we do not give them that trust at work, not always
Hope this helps the debate
Kind Regards
Robbie Howarth

Comment on Is change management about to change? by Mike Osterling

Mike Osterling — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:28:33 +0000

Jose

My “Google alert” pointed me to your blog post

Your post was worth reading twice (which I did), and I loved your closing line “We are at the inflection where the challenge of change management is going to shift from helping teams transition to keeping teams focused and helping them stay on track.” Indeed our attention spans are even shorter than they were in the past (and that has been one of the constant criticism of American management – our ability to focus and stay the course). With interest I have read the results of “multi-tasking” studies which demonstrate that multi-tasking is in fact a fallacy – it is the rare person who can truly do two “tasks” at once. In fact “interruption science” is showing that trying to multi-task hinders most people’s effectiveness and the time to recover from interruptions is significant.

Thanks for the stimulating post.

Regards,

Mike

Comment on The pay increase you should expect when changing jobs by David Barlaam

David Barlaam — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:42:49 +0000

PS. Charles – I’d advise not trying to get more time off as a main negotiation point – you haven’t even started working yet and you want to not work! I know this isn’t your real rational, but it may be percieved as being so. If you do bring it up, do so towards the end of the process, after much has been already determined.

Ron – you need to get to a better company!!! If they’re not willing to pay up for talent… they’ll keep getting where the level has been set – if they pay up, the watermark will be higher, thereby attracting better people overall.

Comment on The pay increase you should expect when changing jobs by David Barlaam

David Barlaam — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:42:19 +0000

Jose,

This is a great article. I think that you really “get it” to an extent that many don’t.

That said – I have a theory – when you tell people a range, or any numbers at all – they only hear the top numbers and nothing else. If many execs read your post, they’re going to think that they should expect a 25% increase upon getting to their next job!

The example I use typically, is if you were to tell your neighbor’s college age kid that you’d give them 8-12 dollars an hour to do your yard work, and they did it for 2 hours – would they expect $16 or $24?

Again – great piece – dead on in all regards… Thanks for writing it!

David