O trabalho que se devia iniciar hoje

Uma mensagem importante, "Memo To The CEO: Price War? Let's Not Join In":

"So our competitors are gearing up for a price war. This isn’t good news, but let’s not make it worse than it has to be. Let’s not join in.
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fighting price wars is usually a bad idea. Michael Porter reminds us that a lowest-cost strategy only works if you have designed the business in every detail to deliver the lowest cost. We haven’t; we have concentrated on service and quality, namely value. What Porter doesn’t say is that even if you are lowest-cost producer that may still not protect you from price competition. Even if you can make money at lower price points than anyone else, you can still be undercut if there is some idiot willing to go out of business faster than you.
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the weakness of the price-cutting strategy is that it is too easy. It is too easy to copy.  Any strategic move that might give you an advantage needs to be hard to copy, but anybody can cut prices. For that reason alone, it can’t work.
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This is a dangerous moment. We are being invited into a battle which nobody can win,  on terrain on which we have no advantage. Plenty of commentators will be shouting at us that we need do it. We need to keep our nerve, which will need real leadership."

Quantos gestores e gerentes precisavam de receber este memorando... entrar numa guerra deste tipo resulta, muitas vezes, de não se fazer o trabalho invisível, o trabalho de sapa, que se devia ter iniciado há anos, que se devia ter iniciado ontem, que se devia iniciar hoje.