Há quase um mês publiquei aqui "Objectivos e planos de acção da treta". Entretanto, por estes dias ouvi este podcast:
Achei interessante o que se disse sobre a dopamina, os objectivos e os planos de acção para os atingir.
Há quase um mês publiquei aqui "Objectivos e planos de acção da treta". Entretanto, por estes dias ouvi este podcast:
Achei interessante o que se disse sobre a dopamina, os objectivos e os planos de acção para os atingir.
"Often, we go from yesterday to today as a bystander, floating on the currents of change. But when we are at our best, we actually create our future with intent. The future counts on us to make it better.
Strategy is the hard work of choosing what to do today to improve our tomorrow."
"floating on the currents of change" ... por isso usei a metáfora Folhas na corrente (parte l)
"As Michael Porter has pointed out, a strategy isn't a goal. And a strategy isn't a list of tasks. A strategy is the set of choices we make (and stick with) as we seek to compete. Hard choices are easy to hide from, since choices feel risky. And competition is challenging. It's easier to have a meeting about our mission statement than it is to get serious about choosing and persisting with a strategy."
O medo de fazer "hard choices" está frequentemente enraizado na percepção de que cada decisão fecha portas e limita possibilidades (outra vez o espaço de Minkowski). Este é um tema profundo e humano, explorado de forma brilhante por Jordan Peterson ao interpretar a história do Peter Pan. Peter Pan é o arquétipo do jovem que, receando o compromisso e a responsabilidade, recusa-se a crescer e permanece na Terra do Nunca, um lugar de potencial infinito, mas sem substância real. Ele evita as "hard choices" porque fazer escolhas significa abandonar outras possibilidades — significa comprometer-se, aceitar perdas e correr riscos.
Michael Porter observa que a estratégia exige "hard choices", e isso desafia-nos porque decisões concretas eliminam a confortável ilusão de infinitas oportunidades. Do mesmo modo, Peter Pan teme deixar para trás o seu potencial ilimitado para abraçar a realidade do crescimento e da transformação. Crescer, no entanto, é o que permite criar valor real, construir relações significativas e alcançar algo de concreto no mundo.
Este medo das "hard choices" é uma forma de resistência contra a responsabilidade e o compromisso, mas também um bloqueio contra a realização. Persistir com uma estratégia, como Porter propõe, ou decidir crescer, como Peter Pan se recusa a fazer, exige coragem para aceitar que perder algumas possibilidades é o preço de realizar algo genuíno e significativo na vida.
"These strategic choices ended up determining the winner.
The tactics occurred after the race was on. Given a limited amount of time and few choices, what's the best option to support the strategy?
Tactics require skill in the moment and can consume us. Strategy is easy to skip, because we've trained our whole life for tactics.
Strategy is a philosophy, based on awareness of our goals and our perception of the systems around us. Tactics are the hard work we do to support our strategy. But great tactics don't help if the strategy is working against us."
Enquanto a estratégia é pensada antes do jogo começar, as tácticas são ajustadas no calor do momento, com base nas circunstâncias que surgem.
A grande diferença é que a estratégia define a direcção, enquanto a táctica ocupa-se dos detalhes do percurso. Sem uma estratégia clara, mesmo as melhores tácticas podem ser inúteis ou, pior, contrárias ao nosso propósito. Por outro lado, uma estratégia forte, mas sem boas tácticas, pode nunca sair do papel. Juntas, elas formam a combinação essencial para alcançar o êxito.
Trechos retirados do último livro de Seth Godin, "This Is Strategy".
"Animals do not seem to consider the future in the same manner as we do. [Moi ici: Esse é para mim o significado de Adão e Eva passarem a ser mortais, quando tomaram consciência do futuro] If you visit the African veldt, and you observe a herd of zebras, you will often see lions lazing about around them. And as long as the lions are lying around relaxing, the zebras really do not mind. This attitude seems a little thoughtless, from the human perspective.
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Relaxed lions are never a problem!" Zebras do not seem to have any real sense of time. They cannot conceptualize themselves across the temporal expanse. But human beings not only manage such conceptualization, they cannot shake it. We discovered the future, some long time ago —and now the future is where we each live, in potential. We treat that as reality. It is a reality that only might be-but it is one with a high probability of becoming now, eventually, and we are driven to take that into account.
You are stuck with yourself. You are burdened with who you are right now and who you are going to be in the future. That means that if you are treating yourself properly, you must consider your repetition across time. You are destined to play a game with yourself today that must not interfere with the game you play tomorrow, next month, next year, and so on."
Li isto há dias em "Beyond Order" de Jordan Peterson.
Agora, acabo de ler em "The Price of Time" de Edward Chancellor:
"The argument of this book is that interest is required to direct the allocation of capital, and that without interest it becomes impossible to value investments. As a reward for abstinence' interest incentivizes saving. Interest is also the cost of leverage and the price of risk. When it comes to regulating financial markets, the existence of interest discourages bankers and investors from taking excessive risks."
E o que é esta abstinência? O sacrifício, o adiar a gratificação imediata:
"Depois da expulsão do paraíso, porque descobrimos que éramos mortais, porque descobrimos que havia uma coisa chamada futuro tivemos de começar a trabalhar. [Moi ici agora: Na verdade no Paraíso também se trabalhava, ver Gn 2, 15] Trabalhar gera frutos que podem ser consumidos de imediato, ou podemos atrasar a gratificação e investir alguns desses frutos em buca de um futuro melhor. Ora uns investem muito, outros investem menos, outros não investem nada. Assim, quando o futuro chega, uns têm mais retorno, outros menos e outros nenhum. Nessa altura cresce a inveja e Caim mata Abel."
Ainda há dias escrevi:
"Joaquim Aguiar costuma escrever que não se pode seguir em frente sem primeiro reconhecer os erros do passado. Por isso, ele usa a metáfora das rotundas. O país está numa rotunda há mais de 20 anos, focado na distribuição de riqueza que é gerada por outros povos e que se transforma em dívida para as gerações de escravos no futuro."
Fez ontem um mês que escrevi:
"Joaquim Aguiar costuma falar e escrever acerca da necessidade imperiosa de reconhecer e falar a verdade acerca do que nos levou a um desastre, para podermos ultrapassar esse desastre. Quando se mascara e maquilha a realidade, para evitar falar do que nos levou ao desastre, não conseguimos seguir em frente, ficamos condenados a dar voltas a uma rotunda que nos traz empobrecimento, apesar dos amanhãs que cantam segundo os chefes e seus acólitos."
O postal de ontem levou-me a rever os meus sublinhados de "12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos" de Jordan Peterson.
"Who are you? What did you do? What happened?” What was the objective truth? There was no way of knowing the objective truth. And there never would be. There was no objective observer, and there never would be. There was no complete and accurate story. Such a thing did not and could not exist. There were, and are, only partial accounts and fragmentary viewpoints. But some are still better than others. Memory is not a description of the objective past. Memory is a tool. Memory is the past’s guide to the future. If you remember that something bad happened, and you can figure out why, then you can try to avoid that bad thing happening again. That’s the purpose of memory. It’s not “to remember the past.” It’s to stop the same damn thing from happening over and over."
Imagem daqui.
"Systems contain people and roles with differing amounts of power, which is significant for requisite variety because ‘ power makes people stupid’. In situations with large power differentials, people with more power have the freedom to define reality, which means they need to spend less time trying to understand how reality is constructed. Mind, intellect, and alertness tend to be marginalized by powerful people. The result is a loss of variety. Fewer justifications may be formulated for interventions, which leaves associates in the dark as to what is being attempted and why. Less documentation may be prepared which makes for less continuity of care. Modifications in the direction of power equalization have the opposite effects and increase variety. While the language of ‘empowerment’ has come to sound contrived and manipulative, the move toward self-management and a more equal distribution of power, however one chooses to label it, is a change toward enacting more variety into teams that now face sicker patients."
Ontem de manhã, li isto na margem do Douro antes de seguir para Felgueiras. Em Felgueiras o meu interlocutor mandou-me um texto por e-mail que acabei a ler à noite, "Zappos: o trágico fim do criador da 'empresa mais feliz do mundo'":
"Mas, à medida que a empresa crescia, ela lutava com o problema interno de hierarquia. Como grandes grupos de seres humanos poderiam fazer coisas sem grandes chefes os dirigindo? E uma vez que você começasse a dar poder a esses chefes, o que aconteceria com a felicidade e a criatividade daqueles que são forçados a seguir ordens?
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Hsieh achava que uma maneira de salvar a felicidade era estrangulando hierarquias.
"Tony foi a uma conferência e voltou muito animado com a ideia da holocracia", disse Gonzales-Black.
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Holocracia é uma forma profundamente descentralizada de administrar uma empresa. Não há patrões e nem mesmo cargos.
A hierarquia tradicional é completamente abandonada. Em vez disso, existem círculos, equipes autogeridas que desenvolvem projetos. Os funcionários escolhem em quais círculos trabalhar e, muitas vezes, trabalham em vários.
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No início, parecia um grande sucesso. Mas o tempo mostrou que as pessoas gostam de hierarquias.
Em empresas como a Zappos, a ausência de regras formais ocultava uma estrutura de poder nociva. Não havia freios e contrapesos. Os mais poderosos podiam satisfazer seus caprichos com poucos limites.[Mo ici: Como isto me faz lembrar as descrições que familiar, funcionário público, me faz sobre o seu local de trabalho. Chefias que ocupam o lugar porque ... ninguém sabe. Não exercem poder, funcionários marcam férias todos ao mesmo tempo, funcionários saem às horas que querem e não têm falta, funcionários marcam consultas médicas sucessivas sem nunca descontarem as horas, funcionários fazem as tarefas que mais gostam e deixam para os novatos as outras]
"Muitas pessoas se sentiram presas e intimidadas por aqueles que entendiam o sistema. O que Tony fez não foi criar uma estrutura plana, uma administração plana, mas um sistema no qual ele era o chefe e todo o resto ficava abaixo dele. Não era democrático. Ele era essencialmente um rei", acrescenta Bradley Carr.
A ironia é que, ao buscar igualdade perfeita, ele inadvertidamente criou o oposto.
Em 2018, a Zappos começou silenciosamente a abandonar a holocracia.
Em 2020, um Hsieh cada vez mais errático deixou a empresa. Seu sonho havia morrido."
E o que vou escrever a seguir é mesmo verdade. Depois de chegar a casa, enquanto fazia exercício, assisti a este vídeo. Onde mais uma vez Jordan Peterson foi confrontado com as lagostas e a hierarquia.
Trecho inicial retirado de "Making Sense of the Organization, Volume 2 - The Impermanent Organization" de Karl E. Weick.
"The fact is important enough to bear repeating: people organize their brains with conversation. If they don’t have anyone to tell their story to, they lose their minds. Like hoarders, they cannot unclutter themselves. The input of the community is required for the integrity of the individual psyche. To put it another way: It takes a village to organize a mind. Much of what we consider healthy mental function is the result of our ability to use the reactions of others to keep our complex selves functional. We outsource the problem of our sanity."Ler isto e recordar de imediato Popper e Espinosa:
"Popper tinha razão ao criticar Espinosa, de que vale a liberdade de pensamento se não há com quem conversar, discutir e aprender"
"The people I listen to need to talk, because that’s how people think. People need to think. Otherwise they wander blindly into pits. When people think, they simulate the world, and plan how to act in it. If they do a good job of simulating, they can figure out what stupid things they shouldn’t do. Then they can not do them. Then they don’t have to suffer the consequences. That’s the purpose of thinking. But we can’t do it alone. We simulate the world, and plan our actions in it. Only human beings do this. That’s how brilliant we are. We make little avatars of ourselves. We place those avatars in fictional worlds. Then we watch what happens. If our avatar thrives, then we act like he does, in the real world. Then we thrive (we hope). If our avatar fails, we don’t go there, if we have any sense. We let him die in the fictional world, so that we don’t have to really die in the present.E pensar para além do dia a dia? E pensar para além do que se está a fazer sobre o que se deverá estar a fazer depois de amanhã? E pensar para além do apagar o fogo que irrompeu esta noite? E pensar sobre se o que se está a fazer é o que deve ser feito mesmo?
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People think they think, but it’s not true. It’s mostly self-criticism that passes for thinking. True thinking is rare— just like true listening.
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Thinking is listening to yourself. It’s difficult. To think, you have to be at least two people at the same time. Then you have to let those people disagree. Thinking is an internal dialogue between two or more different views of the world. Viewpoint One is an avatar in a simulated world. It has its own representations of past, present and future, and its own ideas about how to act. So do Viewpoints Two, and Three, and Four. Thinking is the process by which these internal avatars imagine and articulate their worlds to one another."
"Things fall apart. What worked yesterday will not necessarily work today. We have inherited the great machinery of state and culture from our forefathers, but they are dead, and cannot deal with the changes of the day. The living can. We can open our eyes and modify what we have where necessary and keep the machinery running smoothly. Or we can pretend that everything is alright, fail to make the necessary repairs, and then curse fate when nothing goes our way. Things fall apart: this is one of the great discoveries of humanity. And we speed the natural deterioration of great things through blindness, inaction and deceit. Without attention, culture degenerates and dies, and evil prevails.
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To tell the truth is to bring the most habitable reality into Being. Truth builds edifices that can stand a thousand years. Truth feeds and clothes the poor, and makes nations wealthy and safe. Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word, so that he can become a partner, rather than an enemy. Truth makes the past truly past, and makes the best use of the future’s possibilities. [Moi ici: Como não recordar Joaquim Aguiar, enquanto a verdade for escondida estamos condenados a repetir os erros do passado... o FMI já veio 3 vezes] Truth is the ultimate, inexhaustible natural resource. It’s the light in the darkness. See the truth. Tell the truth.
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If your life is not what it could be, try telling the truth. If you cling desperately to an ideology, or wallow in nihilism, try telling the truth. If you feel weak and rejected, and desperate, and confused, try telling the truth. In Paradise, everyone speaks the truth. That is what makes it Paradise."
"“Relationship is the fundamental truth of this world of appearance,” the Indian poet and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore — the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize — wrote in contemplating human nature and the interdependence of existence. Relationship is what makes a forest a forest and an ocean an ocean. [Moi ici: Profundo] To meet the world on its own terms and respect the reality of another as an expression of that world as fundamental and inalienable as your own reality is an art immensely rewarding yet immensely difficult — especially in an era when we have ceased to meet one another as whole persons and instead collide as fragments."Isto de certa forma pode ser relacionado com o paradoxo em que me vou ensarilhando ao longo da minha progressão como humano, ao longo dos anos sobre este planeta.
"When engaging in sacrifice, our forefathers began to act out what would be considered a proposition, if it were stated in words: that something better might be attained in the future by giving up something of value in the present.Peterson chama a atenção para o facto de no Génesis, depois da expulsão do paraíso a primeira estória que aparece é uma que fala do sacrifício.
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Adam’s waking to the fundamental constraints of his Being— his vulnerability, his eventual death— is equivalent to his discovery of the future. The future: that’s where you go to die (hopefully, not too soon) [Moi ici: Sempre acreditei nisto, não deixamos de ser imortais com Adão e Eva, descobrimos que éramos mortais] . Your demise might be staved off through work; through the sacrifice of the now to gain benefit later.
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There is little difference between sacrifice and work. They are also both uniquely human.
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Prosaically, such sacrifice— work— is delay of gratification, but that’s a very mundane phrase to describe something of such profound significance. The discovery that gratification could be delayed was simultaneously the discovery of time and, with it, causality (at least the causal force of voluntary human action). Long ago, in the dim mists of time, we began to realize that reality was structured as if it could be bargained with. We learned that behaving properly now, in the present— regulating our impulses, considering the plight of others— could bring rewards in the future, in a time and place that did not yet exist. We began to inhibit, control and organize our immediate impulses, so that we could stop interfering with other people and our future selves. Doing so was indistinguishable from organizing society: the discovery of the causal relationship between our efforts today and the quality of tomorrow motivated the social contract— the organization that enables today’s work to be stored, reliably (mostly in the form of promises from others). Understanding is often acted out before it can be articulated
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The act of making a ritual sacrifice to God was an early and sophisticated enactment of the idea of the usefulness of delay. There is a long conceptual journey between merely feasting hungrily and learning to set aside some extra meat, smoked by the fire, for the end of the day, or for someone who isn’t present. It takes a long time to learn to keep anything later for yourself, or to share it with someone else (and those are very much the same thing as, in the former case, you are sharing with your future self). It is much easier and far more likely to selfishly and immediately wolf down everything in sight."
"We eternally inhabit order, surrounded by chaos. We eternally occupy known territory, surrounded by the unknown.
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Chaos and order are fundamental elements because every lived situation (even every conceivable lived situation) is made up of both. No matter where we are, there are some things we can identify, make use of, and predict, and some things we neither know nor understand.
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Living things are always to be found in places they can master, surrounded by things and situations that make them vulnerable. Order is not enough. You can’t just be stable, and secure, and unchanging, because there are still vital and important new things to be learned. Nonetheless, chaos can be too much. You can’t long tolerate being swamped and overwhelmed beyond your capacity to cope while you are learning what you still need to know. Thus, you need to place one foot in what you have mastered and understood and the other in what you are currently exploring and mastering. Then you have positioned yourself where the terror of existence is under control and you are secure, but where you are also alert and engaged.
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The outside, chaos, always sneaks into the inside, because nothing can be completely walled off from the rest of reality.
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those who see into the future can also eternally see trouble coming, and must then prepare for all contingencies and possibilities. To do that, you will have to eternally sacrifice the present for the future. You must put aside pleasure for security. In short: you will have to work. And it’s going to be difficult. I hope you’re fond of thorns and thistles, because you’re going to grow a lot of them.”
"Life is suffering, Peterson reiterates. Don’t be fooled by the naïve optimism of progressive ideology. Life is about remorseless struggle and pain. Your instinct is to whine, to play the victim, to seek vengeance.
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Rise above the culture of victimization you see all around you. Stop whining. Don’t blame others or seek revenge. “The individual must conduct his or her life in a manner that requires the rejection of immediate gratification, of natural and perverse desires alike.”
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Instead, choose discipline, courage and self-sacrifice. “To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life.” Never lie. Tell your boss what you really think. Be strict with your children. Drop the friends who bring you down. Break free from the needy mother who controls you."
"It is widely believed that restructuring has boosted productivity by displacing low-skilled workers and creating jobs for the high skilled."Mas, e como isto é profundo:"In essence, creative destruction means that low productivity plants are displaced by high productivity plants." Por favor voltar a trás e reler esta última afirmação.
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"Lovaglia’s Law: The more important the outcome of a decision, the more people will resist using evidence to make it."
"If an organisation is too stable it can ossify, but if it is too unstable it can disintegrate. Successful organisations work between these two conditions or states, in what Stacey called ‘the chaos zone’."
"If the customer doesn't care about the price, then the retailer shouldn't care about the cost,"
“It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required”.
"Das Leben, das uns gegeben ist, ist uns nicht als etwas Fertiges gegeben, sondern wir müssen es uns gestalten, und zwar jeder sein eigenes."
"Eine Regierung, die nichts wert ist, kostet am meisten."
"Forget trying to persuade them; light their pants on fire."
"O futuro é o que importa. O futuro é a base do significado, é de onde vem o projecto que alguém tem para si próprio"
"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place."
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent; it is the one that is most adaptable to change.”
"o Marketing só existe a partir do pensamento estratégico, caso contrário "não resulta""
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it"
"Perder diversidade é como arrancar páginas de um livro. Quantas páginas poderemos arrancar até deixar de compreender o enredo?"
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."
"By strategy, I mean a cohesive response to a challenge. A real strategy is neither a document nor a forecast but rather an overall approach based on a diagnosis of a challenge. The most important element of a strategy is a coherent viewpoint about the forces at work, not a plan."
"Un desastre està punt de succeir a Espanya. El malentès de la gravetat de la crisi costarà car als inversors, ja que tindrà profundes conseqüències per a tot el sistema bancari europeu", afirma.
Entre d'altres coses, Mauldin diu que "els inversors estan fumant crack si creuen que els bancs espanyols són entre els més forts d'Europa, ja que estan amagant les seves pèrdues".
“… there are no “sunset” industries condemned to disappear in high wage economies, although there are certainly sunset and condemned strategies, among them building a business on the advantages to be gained by cheap labor”
"o vencedor da vida, o optimista que vive em incesto com o próprio ego, é o traço mais frágil do líder"
"We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much
that we have done was very foolish."
You may not be able to change the world but can at least get some entertainment & make a living out of the epistemic arrogance of the human race.
"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do."
“Trust your guts. But not too much!”
"Customers will try 'low-cost providers,' because the majors have not given them any clear reason not to." "
"Natal é quando as Crianças pedem e os Pais pagam. Défices é quando os Pais pedem e as Crianças pagam."
"A imprevidência dos povos é infinita, a dos governos é legal"
"What a man sees depends both upon what he looks at and also upon what his previous visual-conceptual experience has taught him to see"
“The leaders first task is to be the trumpet that sounds a clear sound”
"lamented the lack of any systematic data on the scale of unfunded IOUs that care-free politicians have handed out like confetti."
"Let them call me rebel and welcome, I feel no concern from it; but I should suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul..."
O problema não é o consumo. O problema é o consumo assente em endividamento."
"There are designations, like "economist", "prostitute", or "consultant" for which additional characterization doesn't add information."
When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change, you will change"
"Hope is not a strategy and a crisis is a terrible thing to waste"
The more you can see of the present, the more you can see of the future"
Yes, You can change the future, but only changing the present"
"Entrepreneurship is 'Having aspirations greater than your resources'"
“The single biggest reason companies fail is they overinvest in what is, as opposed to what might be."
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that"
"A estabilidade é uma ilusão"
"When we create the conditions of possibility, the universe becomes our co-conspirator"
Thinking about doing is not doing. Talking about doing is not doing. Doing is doing."
"'God has created me to do him some definite service. He has committed some work to me which he has not committed to another'.
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"Each of us has a mission, each of us is called to change the world, to work for a culture of life, a culture forged by love and respect for the dignity of each human person.
"As our Lord tells us in the Gospel we have just heard, our light must shine in the sight of all, so that, seeing our good works, they may give praise to our heavenly Father."
"The future is not there waiting for us. We create it by the power of imagination."
"confusing testosterone with strategy is a bad idea"
"Much consulting involves the application of models to a system, as opposed to getting involved in the system as a positive change agent""
"O Portugal que pára sem orçamento é precisamente aquele que vive dele e que há todo o interesse em parar."
"credibilidade da política financeira e dos seus executores está ao nível da credibilidade de uma barraca das farturas"
"The role of the manager is thought to be reduction of uncertainty rather than the capacity to live creatively in it"
"today an entrepreneur is closer to artists than managers"
"A business without a path to profit isn’t a business, it’s a hobby"
"If no one’s upset by what you’re saying, you’re probably not pushing hard enough. (And you’re probably boring, too.)"
"Storytelling isn’t just how we construct our identities, stories are our identities"
"'He who has a why to live can bear almost any how' "
"They can because they think they can"
"Se há coisa que não suporto é misturar catequese com negócios, é a incapacidade para calçar os sapatos do outro e só pensar na nossa posição de coitadinhos, pobres vítimas indefesas dos maus e que por isso precisamos do Estado todo poderoso para nos proteger e, nem percebem na volta, os juros que o Estado cobra por esse serviço mafioso de protecção que, ainda por cima não resolve nada."
"Empathy is like a universal solvent. Any problem immersed in empathy becomes soluble."
"In victory, do not brag; in defeat, do not weep"
"Value it's a feeling not a calculation"
"An economist is someone who has had a human being described to him, but has never actually seen one."
"Don't finish first--it's not about running a rat race. Start with a better ending in mind."
"If you sit in on a poker game and don’t see a sucker, get up. You’re the sucker.”
"The 'value added' for most any company, tiny or enormous, comes from the Quality of Experience provided."
"Crediting government with the success of entrepreneurs is like crediting the guy who built Bill Gates’ garage with the success of Microsoft."
"I have found that assuming social scientists understand the difference between correlation and causality is not generally a good one."
"Promising never to raise taxes, without reaching a deal on spending, really means a high and rising commitment to future taxes."
"Some things are so foolish that only an intellectual could believe them, for no ordinary man could be such a fool"
"os bancos não financiam a economia, a poupança sim"
"I do not know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody"
"Never be afraid to try, remember... Amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic."
"terms such as 'experiment' and 'observation' cover complex processes containing many strands. 'Facts' come from negotiations between different parties and the final product - the published report - is influenced by physical events, dataprocessors, compromises, exhaustion, lack of money, national pride and so on."
"'science in the making' is 'the consequence of [a] settlement' of 'controversies'."
"If the state wishes to spend more, it can do so only by borrowing your savings or taxing you more. And it's no good thinking someone else will pay, that someone else is you."
"All failures of strategy are rooted in the assumption that outcomes are predictable."
"Doing things like your bigger competitors is how to get killed in the wars out there"
“Uma moeda boa e forte é como a saúde. Só lhe damos verdadeiramente valor quando não a temos.”
"Life’s tough. It’s tougher if you’re stupid"
"O homem de bem exige tudo de si próprio; o homem medíocre espera tudo dos outros"
"Change is a threat when done to me, but an opportunity when done by me."
"As elites foram deixando de falar das exportações à medida que se foi percebendo que o país consegue exportar sem elas"
"Your toughest competition is the little voice inside your head telling you to stop"
"Pain is just weakness leaving your body"
"Built to last" is bad economics. Built to do something great" is the better idea. Think: "Creative destruction."
"the world is an uncertain place no matter how many Greek letter equations you affix to a problem."
"You never change things by fighting existing reality. To change s.th., build a new model making the existing model obsolete"
“No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.”
"Success is not a destination. It's the trail you leave behind you."
"Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event."
“You’ve got to start with the customer experience and work back toward the technology – not the other way around”
"Strategy as the "smallest set of - intended or actual - choices and decisions sufficient to guide all other choices and decisions sufficient to guide all other choices and decisions."
"When something is commoditized, an adjacent market becomes valuable"
"nature evolves away from constraints, not toward goals"
"There aren't any textbooks on what to stop doing!"
"With great power comes great irresponsibility "
"Weird things happen when you take price out of the equation for consumers"
"‘It’s so damn complex. If you ever think you have the solution to this, you’re wrong and you’re dangerous.’"
"Saruman believes it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. I found it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love."
"Increasing stuff that doesn't add value dilutes existing value."
"O federalismo não é a alternativa à troika, é a troika para sempre."
"Never underestimate the difficulty of changing false beliefs by facts"
"Stressors are information"
“If you hear a “prominent” economist using the word ‘equilibrium,’ or ‘normal distribution,’ do not argue with him; just ignore him, or try to put a rat down his shirt.”
"The advantage of experiences over things for most of us is that we can make them seem unique, which = scarce, which = value"
"Pedras no caminho?
Guardo todas, um dia vou construir um castelo"
"Without risk, faith is an impossibility."
"Não posso com quem vive a achar que os outros lhe devem sempre alguma coisa."
"In a world of increasing automation, our ability to perform tasks is not nearly as important as our ability to dream. The questions we need to ask are not ones of action, but ones of meaning"
"Me arrancam tudo a força e depois me chamam de contribuinte."
"Letting people vote for expensive programs that “somebody else” will finance is a good recipe for getting people to vote irresponsibly"
"what's fairness gotta do with pricing based in value?"
"The epic battle of our generation is between the status quo of mass and the never-ceasing tide of weird."
“Price is emotional”
"There will always be a reason why you can't pursue it, until competitors create a reason why you must."
"The most important thing to study is opening theory"
"The greater the contrast, the greater the potential"
“Customers don't care about your solution, they care about their problems.”
"Todos querem conhecer a verdade, mas o que desejam é que lhes contem uma mentira em que não sejam protagonistas."
"Execution efficiency strangles innovation in the crib, but not with malice, by default.”
"Our obsession with scalability is getting in the way of unleashing the potential of the 21st century."
"The system is optimized to mitigate risk, not create value"
"Champions are made when no one is looking"
"Don't bargain on value. Half as expensive is often twice as cheap."
"Customers care about outcomes, not effort, technology, or originality."
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"You don't have to pick between 1) playing the game and 2) not playing the game. You can *change* the game."
""The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool." "