Não basta produzir - é preciso criar valor

É um mantra neste blogue. Algo que políticos, sindicalistas e muitos empresários anda não perceberam.
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Num mundo com excesso de oferta e escassez de procura:
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"Today, every company is in the same business: the outcomes business. The great challenge of the twenty-first century isn't deciding which flavor of meaningless, industrial age stuff to produce. It is learning to make stuff that's not meaningless stuff in the first place. It is learning how to make a lasting, tangible difference to well-being because that is the only foundation  for the creation of authentic economic value.
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Constructive capitalists are discovering that twenty-first-century businesses don't produce goods, they produce betters: bundles of products and services that make people, communities, society, the natural world, or future generations economically better by ensuring they achieve positive, tangible outcomes."
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Não basta apostar no corpóreo, é preciso apostar no "algo mais":
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"What's the best way to make the competition irrelevant? It's a question that has obsessed generation after generation of strategists, pundits, and gurus. Is it new business models, new market space, harder hardball, or better knowledge? The answer is: none of the above. It's Brian Fitzpatrick's concise summary of Google's great insight: "Disrupt yourself before someone else comes along and does it."
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Call it the resilience principle: disrupt yourself instead of protecting yourself. If you can, you might just gain the power to evolve thicker value faster - making the competition, still protecting the same old thin value, seem feeble and paltry by comparison.
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A radical institutional innovation - a philosophy. Most companies have a competitive strategy, but few have philosophies. What's the difference? Night and day. Competitive strategies say, "Here's how we'll get people to buy our stuff, no matter what." A philosophy says, "Here's how we'll make stuff people want to buy, no matter what." Compatitive strategy is about war on the competition through war on competition itself: its goal is limiting free and fair exchange by blocking, deterring, and smashing rivals. But when a company has a philosophy, the tables are turned on war. Companies that have philosophies no longer make war on competition.
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Philosophy is concerned with discovering "first principles" - the fundamental laws that explain the world around us. So it is with organizational philosophies; theyare concerned with discovering, articulating, and living  the first principles of value creation. They are fundamental laws that explain how we won't merely prevent others from creating thick value, but instead how we will create, refine, and hone thick value. When an organization specifies how it won't block free and fair exchange, the doors of evolution open, and the result is resilience."
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Trechos retirados de "The New Capitalist Manifesto" de Umair Haque.
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Paulo Vaz, director geral da Associação Têxtil e Vestuário de Portugal (ATP) perdeu tanto tempo nos últimos anos a lutar contra as importações europeias de produtos chineses e paquistaneses e... que não viu a mudança, que não aproveitou a oportunidade. Tão concentrado em defender o passado que foi surpreendido pelo presente. A 10/10/10 escrevi sobre o erro da ATP ao desprezar "Qual é o recurso mais escasso?", a 2 de Janeiro sobre o erro de se agarrar como uma lapa a defender o passado em "Ainda podia ser melhor" e sobre a importância de investigar para perceber os acontecimentos e... fazer batota aproveitando a onda.
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Se estivessem atentos ao presente (tão sensemaking) perceberiam isto, por exemplo "Por categorias, as exportações de produtos têxteis registaram um crescimento de dois dígitos, já que subiram 12,1 por cento. As exportações de produtos acabados (vestuário e artigos para o lar, entre outros) registaram um crescimento de 4,5 por cento.

Assinalável é a evolução das exportações de tecidos especiais e tufados, que cresceram 29 por cento, e das fibras sintéticas ou artificias descontínuas, que aumentaram 23 por cento. Os tecidos impregnados, revestidos ou estratificados e os artigos de uso técnico subiram 18 por cento." e relacionariam com isto "Têxteis do lar portugueses apostam nos “produtos topo de gama” na China"