The “secret” to make the state company It is in the example of its leaders, said the “cadre” that runs the construction materials company Médano, in Holguín.
Forced to redesign strategies that allow it to sustain production, according to the National Television News (NTV), the state company is in the crosshairs of the ruler's “continuity” Miguel Diaz-Canel, who insists on making her the main axis of the state-run and socialist economy that the Cuban totalitarian regime has been testing for more than 60 years.
With the aim of showing a “success story” in this sector, the country's television cameras traveled to Holguín, where the official journalist Marel González Escobar spoke with Junior Pupo, “a businessman from Holguín who, together with his group, manages to maintain the efficiency of his entity with benefits for his workers.”
“How do you get your workers to follow you?” the journalist asked, intrigued. “First of all, [you have to be] an example to others. Our way of acting, responsibility, concern for each of the problems of the industry and of workers in their personal lives” is fundamental, said Pupo.
In addition to being “an example,” the leader mentioned his concern about giving his workers “a salary that somewhat responds to current demands and shortcomings.”
The Médano company is fundamentally dedicated to the production of aggregates, floor and wall elements and other construction products. According to him NTV “Commercial production generates profits and the average salary of workers grows amidst material limitations.”
Pupo, who has run it since 2008, considers that one of the “secrets” to making the company efficient is “turn each of the problems faced into opportunities”.
“We also have to create productive chains with the national industry and the non-state sector. We have to link up with the academy to be able to make productions from science. And what does all this mean for the manager? Consistency and satisfaction with each of the results obtained. Notice that I stay awake at night when we have a problem… looking for the solution!”, he added.
The Holguín “cadre” does not stop in the face of difficulties. “Given the lack of spare parts, fuel and cement, we went towards the production of new products that had little content of this raw material,” he revealed.
Another Pupo secret: “the circular economy”. If there are no raw materials, “scraps, sawdust and others are used,” or “edge bricks, clay bricks and other mortar productions” are produced.
With this, according to the manager, "efficiency is achieved, progressively increasing the salary of workers and, in addition, satisfying the demands of the population."
“I am eternally dissatisfied. When the things that we have planned do not go well for me based on an objective to be achieved in a period... It is very comforting when one arrives at a work group where productions are met, with quality, and where there is responsibility in the group," he confessed. Pupo.
The “cadre” revealed his last secret to success in his work of running a socialist state company: the family. “It encourages me a lot when you come home from a day exhausted from work, when the children and the family approach me, because I have a beautiful family. In that sense, that family has helped me a lot with the achievements that I have today,” he acknowledged.
One last piece of advice from the leader: “In the short term we have to achieve a high-tech company and to do so we have to achieve the export of goods and services. In addition, completing a doctorate in science will allow me to grow personally and with it the company will also grow. And I always live thinking about what else to do for Cuba.”
While Pupo achieves "squaring the circle" in his construction materials company, in October of last year it was known that Cuba maintained a deficit of 800 thousand homes. Holguín, along with Havana, Santiago de Cuba and Camagüey, were the provinces with the most complex situation.
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