In July 2026, Expansión reported that between a quarter and a half of work meetings are unproductive. In 2022, Expansión had attributed the same figure to the Mexican Association of Teamwork.
Juan Pablo Ventosa of the EGADE business school set out a rule: “No hay juntas sin explicar el objetivo de la reunión y el límite de tiempo” (No meeting without explaining its purpose and its time limit). The article also discussed a day without meetings.
¡Vámonos con Pancho Villa! was directed by Fernando de Fuentes and released in 1936. It is based on a novel by Rafael F. Muñoz. Six friends from the village of San Pablo, the Leones de San Pablo, join the División del Norte of Francisco Villa in 1914. After the battle of Torreón, the three survivors become Dorados, members of Villa’s elite troops.
Near the end, Villa orders Tiburcio Maya, the last of the friends still with him, to burn a sick comrade alive. Tiburcio kills the man first. Villa then tells him that he is no longer welcome in the army. Tiburcio goes back to San Pablo alone.
As president, Lázaro Cárdenas traveled through the states and met people directly. A text of the UNAM’s Colegio de Ciencias y Humanidades says that he “recorrió el país escuchando, discutiendo y atendiendo quejas, peticiones y protestas” (traveled the country listening to, discussing and attending to complaints, petitions and protests). He also opened the National Palace to groups of peasants to hear their petitions.
He was given the title Tata. In July 2023, a Purépecha community gave Claudia Sheinbaum the title Nana. Infobae reported that before her, only Cárdenas had received such a title.
In the Edelman Trust Barometer 2026 for Mexico, 81 percent of employed respondents said they trust mi empleador, “my employer.” The Mexican report calls the employer “la institución con mayor nivel de confianza en México” (the institution with the highest level of trust in Mexico).
Trust in business in general was 66 percent, in NGOs 62 percent, in the media 57 percent and in government 43 percent. The question about the employer was asked only of people who work for an organization.
In March 2023, Emprendedor.com reported a survey by the job site Computrabajo on why people in Mexico quit their jobs. The most common reason was malos jefes, bad bosses, named by 43 percent. The article sums it up: “4 de cada 10 trabajadores han renunciado a causa de un liderazgo negativo” (4 in 10 workers have resigned because of negative leadership).
The article does not give the size of the sample or the dates of the survey.
In Posdata, Octavio Paz compared the Mexican presidency with the tlatoani, the ruler of the Aztecs. He wrote that “el tlatoani representa la continuidad impersonal de la dominación” (the tlatoani represents the impersonal continuity of domination). The president, in his reading, holds power for six years, and at the end of that term another president appears.
A phrase attributed to the historian Daniel Cosío Villegas, in El sistema político mexicano, is still quoted by columnists. It calls the system a “monarquía absoluta sexenal y hereditaria por línea transversal” (an absolute six-year monarchy, hereditary in a transverse line). The phrase is quoted in slightly different wordings.
Article 3 of Mexico’s Law of Discipline of the Army, Air Force and National Guard defines discipline as the norm to which the military must adjust their conduct. It “tiene como bases la obediencia, y un alto concepto del honor, de la justicia y de la moral” (has as its bases obedience and a high concept of honor, justice and morality).
Its aim is that soldiers fulfill exactly and loyally the duties set by military laws and regulations.
Donde manda capitán, no gobierna marinero, “where the captain commands, the sailor does not govern.” ¡Aquí mando yo!, “I am the one who commands here!” Mi palabra es la ley, “my word is the law.”
A 2005 article in Elementos, a journal of the Autonomous University of Puebla, gives the first as the form the saying has today. A 2014 article in the magazine Este País lists the other two among the phrases of a boss.
In Geert Hofstede’s study of national cultures, Mexico scores 81 on power distance, the degree to which people accept that power is distributed unequally. A thesis at the Autonomous University of Puebla notes that with this value Mexico occupies “el sexto lugar” (sixth place) among the countries in Hofstede’s ranking.
In May 2026, IDC Online reported the Mexican results of “The Leadership Divide,” a study by Hogan Assessments of about 10,000 workers in 25 countries. In Mexico, 87 percent expected drive, ambition and a focus on results from their leaders. Sixty-six percent valued clear structures, processes and organization.
Victoria Zapata of HR Tools México summed up the results: “La gente quiere claridad, quiere rumbo, quiere estructura” (People want clarity, they want direction, they want structure).