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To talk of Don Eugenio Garza Sada, is to describe a tireless worker, a man of few words and with a precise manner of speaking. Don Eugenio was renowned not only as a successful businessman, but also as an active promoter of the development of his community, constantly acting congruently, with enormous simplicity and a deep sense of humanity, focused on the improvement of all those who surrounded him, without distinction.
Don Eugenio Garza Sada was born on January 11, 1892. His childhood coincided with the first stage of Mexico’s industrialization, during the period in which Porfirio Díaz was in office, known as the Porfiriato (1876 - 1910), and when foreign investors introduced the latest technologies of that time.
As a child, through his father’s example, he received lessons that would later become fundamental to his professional career. He learned to live side by side with risk and problems. He assimilated his father’s patriotism, community service, rectitude, modesty, high standards and severity, forging definitively the personality that would touch so many people and attain so many achievements.
He studied primary school in the Colegio de San Juan, in Saltillo, Coahuila, and then came to Monterrey to study in the Colegio Hidalgo, run by the Marist Brothers, followed by high school in a military institution, Western Academy, in the United States. He stayed in the US to study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned a B.S. in Civil Engineering, in 1916.
While in the United States, he became aware that education is the most effective means of achieving the industrialization and development of a country, and of the connection existing between research and science, between science and technology, and between these three components and development, wellbeing and freedom. This formed the basis for building his life project.
In 1917, he began working at the Cuauhtémoc Brewery. Upon his death, almost 56 years later, in 1973, he was President of Grupo Valores Industriales, S. A., (VISA), which brought together several companies and was created around Cuauhtémoc Brewery.
He always had a clear idea of what work is. Behind each machine, each desk, each service window, he saw the human being working there. As a result, he always treated his collaborators and employees with kindness and closeness, and maintained the austere, simple lifestyle that marked his youth.
It was once said about him: "For Don Eugenio, every task is important enough to be granted all his drive and capacity to achieve a perfect result. He lived every matter intensely and encapsulated all his experience and talent in each and every activity."
Don Eugenio Garza Sada was a devote advocate of education. He firmly believed that human development would drive Mexico to become a better country. Therefore, through Sociedad Cuauhtémoc y Famosa, he channeled highly significant resources to offer courses and, above all, grant scholarships for the children of those who worked in the affiliated companies.
After 26 years at the Cuauhtémoc Brewery, Don Eugenio considered that the preparation of Mexican technicians was long overdue, driving him to undertake his most important work: Tecnológico de Monterrey, sponsored by Enseñanza e Investigación Superior, A.C.
To this end, he met with a group of Monterrey businessmen and crystallized the idea of creating an institution that would prepare men and women comprehensively–and not just as well-qualified professionals. This institution, conceived in Don Eugenio’s mind, it is said, since 1917, began modestly in a house in Monterrey’s downtown area in 1943, with 350 students and a handful of professors.
Don Eugenio devoted a large part of his time to this institution, as Chairman of the Tecnológico Board of Directors from 1943 until his death.
Don Eugenio is an enduring example. His concern for human development through education and work, as well as for enhancing the standard of living and cultural level of his compatriots, is still alive in the numerous works he undertook, whose benefits multiply to this day since Don Eugenio knew how to transmit to so many people the values that guided his life.
To talk of Don Eugenio Garza Sada, is to describe a tireless worker, a man of few words and with a precise manner of speaking. Don Eugenio was renowned not only as a successful businessman, but also as an active promoter of the development of his community, constantly acting congruently, with enormous simplicity and a deep sense of humanity, focused on the improvement of all those who surrounded him, without distinction.
Don Eugenio defined the Cuauhtémoc Ideology -also known as the "Don Eugenio Garza Sada Ideology"- long before companies talked about codes of ethics or mission statements. This document contains 17 personal principles and concepts, and was distributed among his colleagues, with the request to keep it in a visible place in their offices; he was the first to set an example. The Ideology remains to date as a life example for the new generations.
For the role they may have played in the success of the company, mentioning it spontaneously, promptly and publicly. To take credit for that, to attribute to oneself the merit that belongs to those who work through their own self-motivation, would be an ignoble act, it would cut off a source of affection and would not allow the executive to behave appropriately.
One should have the ability to resolve any problem or situation peacefully and reasonably, regardless of how irritating the provocations may be that must be tolerated. Those who are not capable of controlling their own impulses and expressions, cannot act as leaders of a corporation. The true executive abdicates the right to anger.
Do not make fun of anyone or anything. Avoid hurtful jokes or those with double meanings. Keep in mind the damage that sarcasm causes; it never heals.
Don’t be overly formal, but do make sure that others find being in your company enjoyable.
Of the diversities that may be found in race, color, manners, education or in the idiosyncrasies of others.
Those who cannot keep their appointments will soon become an encumbrance.
As if it were the most intimate secret. An executive cannot show arrogance or self-complacency. Often the failures of famous men confirm the adage, “pride comes before a fall”. If you begin to say that other employees are incompetent, or that clients are miserly and foolish, you are looking for trouble.
You must think before speaking and keep your promises. Half-truths may hide mistakes, but only for a short time. Lies are like a boomerang.
Especially collaborators, until they reach the true crux of the problem, even if you have to listen to them patiently for an hour. You would make a poor director, if you dominate the conversation instead of limiting yourself to guiding it.
With clarity and completeness, especially when giving instructions. It is always helpful to have a dictionary close by.
Eliminate interjections. Vulgarity and familiarity weaken expressions and create misunderstandings. Great parliamentarians never used a single vulgar expression to destroy their enemies verbally.
Having hobbies and interests in other things is positive, but if going to work on Saturdays or working overtime becomes a sacrifice, you need a vacation and a job somewhere else.
Whose productivity makes the management position possible and affirms the future of both.
This is a good tactic. Fidelity to the firm promotes self-benefit.
This should be the prerequisite of action.
This benefits the individual, the firm and society as a whole, being similar to the priesthood.
It must be understood that they have nothing to do with a person’s worth - the size of a car or home, or the number of friends or clubs that one belongs to, luxuries, or the sign on the office door - and if these things mean more than a job well and quietly done, and the knowledge and spiritual refinement to acquire them, then a change of attitude or job is called for.
Hablar de don Eugenio Garza Sada, es referirnos a un trabajador incansable, un hombre de pocas palabras y muy preciso en su decir. Don Eugenio se caracterizó por ser tanto un empresario de éxito, como un activo promotor del desarrollo de su comunidad, actuando siempre de manera congruente, con gran sencillez y enorme calidad humana, enfocado hacia la superación de quienes lo rodearon, sin distinción alguna.
Don Eugenio Garza Sada was born on January 11, 1892. His childhood coincided with the first stage of Mexico’s industrialization, during the period in which Porfirio Díaz was in office, known as the Porfiriato (1876 - 1910), and when foreign investors introduced the latest technologies of that time.
As a child, through his father’s example, he received lessons that would later become fundamental to his professional career. He learned to live side by side with risk and problems. He assimilated his father’s patriotism, community service, rectitude, modesty, high standards and severity, forging definitively the personality that would touch so many people and attain so many achievements.
He studied primary school in the Colegio de San Juan, in Saltillo, Coahuila, and then came to Monterrey to study in the Colegio Hidalgo, run by the Marist Brothers, followed by high school in a military institution, Western Academy, in the United States. He stayed in the US to study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned a B.S. in Civil Engineering, in 1916.
While in the United States, he became aware that education is the most effective means of achieving the industrialization and development of a country, and of the connection existing between research and science, between science and technology, and between these three components and development, wellbeing and freedom. This formed the basis for building his life project.
In 1917, he began working at the Cuauhtémoc Brewery. Upon his death, almost 56 years later, in 1973, he was President of Grupo Valores Industriales, S. A., (VISA), which brought together several companies and was created around Cuauhtémoc Brewery.
He always had a clear idea of what work is. Behind each machine, each desk, each service window, he saw the human being working there. As a result, he always treated his collaborators and employees with kindness and closeness, and maintained the austere, simple lifestyle that marked his youth.
It was once said about him: "For Don Eugenio, every task is important enough to be granted all his drive and capacity to achieve a perfect result. He lived every matter intensely and encapsulated all his experience and talent in each and every activity."
Don Eugenio Garza Sada was a devote advocate of education. He firmly believed that human development would drive Mexico to become a better country. Therefore, through Sociedad Cuauhtémoc y Famosa, he channeled highly significant resources to offer courses and, above all, grant scholarships for the children of those who worked in the affiliated companies.
After 26 years at the Cuauhtémoc Brewery, Don Eugenio considered that the preparation of Mexican technicians was long overdue, driving him to undertake his most important work: Tecnológico de Monterrey, sponsored by Enseñanza e Investigación Superior, A.C.
To this end, he met with a group of Monterrey businessmen and crystallized the idea of creating an institution that would prepare men and women comprehensively–and not just as well-qualified professionals. This institution, conceived in Don Eugenio’s mind, it is said, since 1917, began modestly in a house in Monterrey’s downtown area in 1943, with 350 students and a handful of professors.
Don Eugenio devoted a large part of his time to this institution, as Chairman of the Tecnológico Board of Directors from 1943 until his death.
Don Eugenio is an enduring example. His concern for human development through education and work, as well as for enhancing the standard of living and cultural level of his compatriots, is still alive in the numerous works he undertook, whose benefits multiply to this day since Don Eugenio knew how to transmit to so many people the values that guided his life.
Don Eugenio definió el Ideario Cuauhtémoc -conocido también como "Ideario de don Eugenio Garza Sada"- mucho antes de que en las empresas se hablara de códigos de ética o de enunciados de la misión. Este documento contiene 17 normas y conceptos personales, y fue distribuido entre sus compañeros de trabajo, con la petición de tenerlo en un lugar visible en sus oficinas, siendo él mismo el primero en poner el ejemplo. El Ideario permanece al día de hoy como un ejemplo de vida para las nuevas generaciones.
Por la parte que hayan tomado en el éxito de la empresa y señalarlo de manera espontánea, pronta y pública. Usurpar ese crédito, atribuirse a sí mismo méritos que corresponden a quienes trabajan a las órdenes propias, sería un acto innoble, segaría una fuente de afecto e incapacitaría para comportarse como corresponde a un ejecutivo.
Debe tenerse capacidad para dirimir pacífica y razonablemente cualquier problema o situación, por irritantes que sean las provocaciones que haya que tolerar. Quien sea incapaz de dominar sus propios impulsos y expresiones, no puede actuar como director de una empresa. El verdadero ejecutivo abdica el derecho a la ira.
De nadie ni de nada. Evitar las bromas hirientes o de doble sentido. Tener en cuenta que la herida que asesta un sarcasmo, nunca cicatriza.
No protocolario, pero sí atento a que los demás encuentren gratos los momentos de la propia compañía.
De las faltas que puedan encontrarse en la raza, color, modales, educación, o idiosincrasia de los demas.
Quien no puede guardar sus citas, muy pronto se constituirá en un estorbo.
Como el secreto más íntimo. Un ejecutivo no puede exhibir arrogancia ni autocomplacencia. Cuántas veces los fracasos de hombres bien conocidos confirman el adagio de "el orgullo antecede a la caída". Cuando uno empiece a decir que otros empleados son torpes, o que los clientes son mezquinos o necios, habrá empezado a meterse en embrollos.
Lo que uno afirme, debe hacerlo reflexionando; y lo que prometa, debe cumplirlo. Las verdades a medias pueden ocultar errores, pero por poco tiempo. La mentira opera como un bumerang.
Especialmente los colaboradores, hasta que lleguen al verdadero fondo del problema, aunque tenga que escuchárseles con paciencia durante una hora. Haría uno un pobre papel como director, si dominara una conversación en vez de limitarse a encauzarla.
Con claridad y completamente, sobre todo al dar instrucciones. Nunca estorba un buen diccionario a mano.
Eliminar las interjecciones. Las voces vulgares y los giros familiares debilitan la expresión y crean malentendidos. Para demoler verbalmente a sus enemigos, los grandes parlamentarios nunca emplearon una sola expresión vulgar.
Es muy legítimo tener pasatiempos predilectos e intereses en otras cosas, pero si se estima como un sacrificio venir los sábados o quedarse en la oficina más allá del horario en caso preciso, entonces lo que se necesita es un descanso y otra compañía en donde trabajar.
Cuya productividad hace posible la posición directiva y afirma el futuro de ambos.
Es buena táctica. La fidelidad a la empresa promueve el propio beneficio.
Este debe ser el antecedente para actuar.
Beneficia al individuo, a la empresa y a la sociedad entera. En esto se asemeja a un sacerdocio.
Si no se comprende que nada tienen que ver con el valor de la persona -el tamaño del automóvil o de la casa, o el número de amigos y de los clubes a que se pertenece, o el precio del abrigo de pieles de la esposa y el rótulo de la puerta del despacho- y si estas cosas significan para uno más que la tarea bien y calladamente cumplida y los conocimientos y el refinamiento espiritual para adquirirlos, entonces se precisa un cambio de actitud o de trabajo.
Associates / Active
Miguel Hidalgo Olvera (President)
Patricia Lozano Meade (Vicepresident)
Alejandro Ruiz Cortéz
Antonio Acebo González
Carlos Rafael Mendizábal Pérez
Cecilia Rangel Mancilla
Francisco Jesus de la Rosa Díez Gutiérrez
Gerardo Bocard Meraz
Associates / Active
Julián Ramírez Abella
Luis Viramontes Cordero
María José Torres Mercado
Ramón Zamanillo Pérez
Roberto García Rochin
Verónica Noyola Valdés
Marco Edgar Vargas Herrera (Secretary)
Benefactor Associates
José Cerillo Chowell
Asociados Activos/Consejeros
Miguel Hidalgo Olvera (Presidente)
Patricia Lozano Meade (Vicepresidente)
Alejandro Ruiz Cortéz
Antonio Acebo González
Carlos Rafael Mendizábal Pérez
Cecilia Rangel Mancilla
Francisco Jesus de la Rosa Díez Gutiérrez
Gerardo Bocard Meraz
Asociados Activos/Consejeros
Julián Ramírez Abella
Luis Viramontes Cordero
María José Torres Mercado
Ramón Zamanillo Pérez
Roberto García Rochin
Verónica Noyola Valdés
Marco Edgar Vargas Herrera (Secretario)
Asociados Benefactores
José Cerillo Chowell
Since its foundation, Tecnológico de Monterrey has defined the regulations that guide its students, regarding the expected academic standards and conduct both inside and outside the classroom.
In this way, the Institution, committed to academic quality, disseminates its governing regulations among students and the community, within the framework of the principles and values described in the Mission.
In order to obtain an undergraduate degree at Tecnológico de Monterrey, students are required to have:
Desde su fundación, el Tecnológico de Monterrey definió los reglamentos que rigen a sus alumnos, tanto en lo que se espera de ellos en lo académico como en su comportamiento dentro y fuera de las aulas.
Es así como la Institución, comprometida con su calidad académica, difunde, entre los alumnos y la comunidad, los reglamentos que lo rigen dentro del marco de los principios y valores establecidos en la Misión.
Para obtener un título profesional en el Tecnológico de Monterrey se requiere:
Active
Carlos Gutiérrez Cerdio (President)
José Luis Mandiola Totoricagüena (Vicepresident)
Adrián Marenco Olavarrieta
David León Gamboa
Fernando Vázquez Farrera
Gerardo Cordero López
José Brunet Civit
José Luis Romero de la Fuente
Manuel de Jesús Villalobos García (Secretary)
Benefactors Associates
Ana Valerie Mandri Rohen
Antonio D´amiano Atristain
Enoch Araujo Sánchez
Fernando Vázquez Lara
Franklin Pedrero Gutiérrez
José María Pariente Serrano
José Rodolfo Lozano Aramoni
Luis Castillo Hernández
Moctezuma Pedrero Gutiérrez
Rómulo Farrera Escudero
Víctor Manuel Penagos Malda
Consejeros Activos
Carlos Gutiérrez Cerdio (Presidente)
José Luis Mandiola Totoricagüena (Vicepresidente)
Adrián Marenco Olavarrieta
David León Gamboa
Fernando Vázquez Farrera
Gerardo Cordero López
José Brunet Civit
José Luis Romero de la Fuente
Manuel de Jesús Villalobos García (Secretario)
Asociados Benefactores
Ana Valerie Mandri Rohen
Antonio D´amiano Atristain
Enoch Araujo Sánchez
Fernando Vázquez Lara
Franklin Pedrero Gutiérrez
José María Pariente Serrano
José Rodolfo Lozano Aramoni
Luis Castillo Hernández
Moctezuma Pedrero Gutiérrez
Rómulo Farrera Escudero
Víctor Manuel Penagos Malda
Associates / Active
Alberto Federico Terrazas Seyffert (President)
Augusto Onécimo Champion Almeida (Vicepresident)
Carlos Antonio Carvajal Lechuga
Federico Terrazas Becerra
Ismael Rodríguez Durán
Jaime Andrés Cruz Russek
Jaime Federico Elías Madero
Juan Carlos Noble Ayub
Leopoldo Mares Cano
Luis Antonio Corral Pérez
Associates / Active
Luis Enrique Terrazas Seyffert
Luis Lara Cruz
Luis Román Medina Esquer
Mario Schmall Hernández
María Martha Márquez Villalobos
Miguel Guerrero Elias
Samuel Gustavo Kalisch Seyffert
Silvia Lujan Martínez
Tamara Barriot Creel
Vanessa Ibarra
Armando Bahena Vigna (Secretary)
Honorable Benefactors
Benito Fernández Iturriza
Enrique Guillermo Terrazas Torres
Facundo Ismael Rodríguez Gallegos
José Antonio Vicente Fernández Carbajal
Leopoldo Enrique Mares Delgado
Marcus Federico Baur Neuburger
Miguel Antonio Fernández Iturriza
Norma Esther Almeida García
Octavio Carlín Álvarez