By José Ángel de la Paz

Once the COVID-19 contingency is over, our country will see the emergence of a new generation of business leaders who are more socially aware, according to Carlos Salazar Lomelín, president of Mexico's Business Coordination Council (also known as CCE).

Salazar Lomelín, who is also Chairman of the Board of the Undergraduate Business School at Tecnológico de Monterrey, said that Mexico must prioritize economic growth in order to recover from the crisis caused by the pandemic.

Salazar Lomelín presented the webinar “The company's perspective and the leader: challenges and opportunities of COVID-19” as part of the series “Rising to the challenge: Leadership in the face of COVID-19”, along with Ignacio de la Vega, dean of EGADE Business School and the Undergraduate Business School at Tecnológico de Monterrey.

The head of the CCE stressed that to accelerate the country's recovery process it is essential to foster private investment in large infrastructure projects, as this will result in a high rate of employment and improved value chains.

“The economic crisis that is already wreaking havoc, is different from those experienced in previous years because it is the first time in history that a society has purposefully triggered an economic crisis, to get out of a health crisis. Thus, the main advantages we have now is that we are not in an inflationary situation and there are adequate fiscal policies to get out of it,” he said.  

Meanwhile, De la Vega said that in the face of this challenging scenario, entrepreneurs must choose to adjust their style of leadership, in which, more than simply pursuing greater profits, they must take into account that companies are made up of people and that each action they take will have a collateral effect on them, hence the importance of implementing Conscious Leadership.

Both speakers concluded that this crisis is an opportunity to grow as a society, reinvent the country's economy and transform business leadership by placing the greater good at its core.

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