TAP Executive Chairman (CEO) Luis Rodriguez said on Monday that he would not allow political interference in the board of directors, noting that the past of the company does not concern him.
When asked by journalists, Luis Rodriguez said that he would “definitely” maintain the “flag” of preventing political interference in his companies in the future, as he did in the leadership of SATA.
“The companies are not mine, they are state-owned. But [sim]: no interference in the boards of directors of companies,” he said.
The CEO of TAP spoke to reporters in Ponta Delgada after an open class on the Master of Business Administration (MBA) program at the Faculty of Economics and Management of the University of Azores.
Insisting on not answering questions about TAP, the manager declined to compare the national airline’s situation to that of SATA, as they are “completely different things,” nor did he want to comment on the impact of the inquiry committee on TAP. prestige.
“I am talking about TAR only forward, but here it is not. What happened back does not concern me,” he stressed.
During an open session on Applied Strategy: From Theory to Practice, Luis Rodriguez stated that the “most fundamental” aspect of strategy is “diagnosis”: “this is where I see the most mistakes.”
The CEO of TAP also warned about the importance of ethics in management.
“Think carefully about your values. Think about it carefully. Because these days, anyone who thinks they can get away with something invisible can pull a horse out of the rain. Everything you do today, with all the technology, will be in the news. newspaper cover, no matter what,” he warned.
Luis Rodriguez also recalled that company restructuring does not always involve collective layoffs, recalling that when he joined SATA in 2019, there was a “consensus” about the need to “lay off 200 or 300 people”, a situation that was rejected by the board of directors.
Later, when asked by journalists if such a policy could be implemented in TAP, the CEO declined to comment: “I don’t want to say anything about TAP. Here I spoke about the conceptual and theoretical plan. different approach.”