Por exemplo, uma empresa que produz artigos para criança (calçado, ou vestuário, ou brinquedos, ou ...) para onde deve apontar?
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Imagem retirada de "Urban world: Mapping the economic power of cities" do McKinsey Global Institute (Março 2011)
"Em 2012, a castanha contribuiu com 17,5 milhões de euros para as exportações portuguesas e, segundo Manuel Cardoso, diretor regional de Agricultura e Pescas do Norte, é "o único setor que, neste momento, está a fazer com que haja incorporação de capital estrangeiro nos investimentos na região".Recordar "E assim, na boa, os produtores facturam entre 22,5 a 45 milhões de euros..."
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Hoje em dia, a castanha é aceite no mercado como um "artigo de luxo" e aquela que é produzida na região de Trás-os-Montes destina-se essencialmente à exportação para países como Itália, Brasil, França, Suíça, Canadá, Alemanha, Holanda, Luxemburgo, Bélgica, Espanha, Angola, Estados Unidos da América, Áustria, Cabo Verde, entre outros."
"Fazendo uma análise dinâmica sobre a evolução do comércio português de frutos, constata-se que a castanha é o fruto que tem o maior valor líquido nas exportações portuguesas."Trecho retirado de "A Fileira da castanha: situação actual dos mercados"
"Em 2012, inverteu-se o padrão de crescimento do número de vacas leiteiras dos países da União Europeia. Desde há 20 anos que este número tem vindo a diminuir de forma gradual. Contudo, no ano passado registou-se um aumento de 1,1%."Sabem que o leite é a commodity alimentar por excelência... se aumenta a capacidade produtiva e não aumenta o consumo, e não há diferenciação... vamos ter guerra de preços, vamos ter marcas a pressionar os preços dos produtores.
"Redução dos custos laborais não está a ser acompanhada por uma redução dos preços de exportação. Empresários aproveitam procura rígida para aumentar margens, (Moi ici: Como se aumentar as margens fosse uma coisa má!!! Como se as empresas portuguesas não precisem de aumentar a sua capitalização. Como se deva existir uma relação matemática entre preços e custos... em vez de elogiar os empresários que numa conjuntura adversa conseguem o feito de aumentar preços e quotas de mercado em simultâneo... temos esta conversa da treta de quem confunde valor e preço, de quem confunde sentimento com folha de cálculo) mas essa é uma estratégia com riscos, avisa a UTAO, numa análise à competitividade em Portugal.Os funcionários da UTAO julgam que uma empresa consegue subir preços por causa dos seus lindos olhos?
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a queda dos custos unitários de trabalho promovida em parte por reduções salariais não se reflectiu nos preços das vendas ao exterior.(Moi ici: Fazem-me lembrar os funcionários do BPP que perderam dinheiro tal como os clientes do banco, acreditam mesmo nas patranhas que escrevem. Lembram-se do que escrevi aqui sobre a necessidade de baixar a TSU para que os exportadores possam ser mais competitivos? Aqui e aqui) As empresas exportadoras, aproveitando uma procura externa pouco sensível aos preços, optaram por aumentar as suas margens e conseguiram até ganhar quota de mercado. (Moi ici: Será que os funcionários da UTAO, membros típicos da tríade, sabem que o mercado é muito competitivo e que para subir preços não basta um produtor desejá-lo? Será que os produtores portugueses não têm um qualquer tipo de vantagem competitiva que não reside no preço? Nunca ouviram falar do não-preço? Diferenciação, flexibilidade, proximidade, pequenas séries, condições de pagamento, design, inovação, autenticidade, experiência, ... Será que os funcionários da UTAO bebem água de garrafa ou de torneira? Será que os funcionários da UTAO sabem que se pode facturar mais vendendo o mesmo mas com um modelo de negócio diferente?)
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Este comportamento terá sido possível por uma menor sensibilidade do que por vezes se imagina das exportações aos preços: "a evidência empírica em Portugal sugere que as nossas exportações têm estado a enfrentar uma procura rígida em relação aos preços, tendo ocorrido simultaneamente ao aumento dos preços das exportações o aumento das quantidades exportadas", (Moi ici: Parece que nunca ouviram a descrição da evolução dos preços do calçado, por exemplo) escrevem os autores, salientando que há factores que podem contribuir para os ganhos de quota de mercado. Entre eles está, por exemplo, o incentivo que resulta da queda abrupta da procura interna e que empurrou muitas empresas a procurarem de forma mais agressiva mercados externos." (Moi ici: O racional deste último período é... WTH!?!?!? A procura agressiva de mercados externos é que permitiu subir preços e ganhar quota de mercado? Qual é a lógica?)
"Building on the success of India’s medical tourism boom - a $1 billion business that is growing by 30% a year - Narayana Health (NH) is opening a 2,000-bed multispecialty hospital in the Cayman Islands. A short hop from the American mainland, it will begin providing care in early 2014. Uninsured and underinsured patients will be able to receive high-quality treatment at an internationally accredited hospital for less than half of what they would pay in America. The proximity of NH’s beachhead may well pressure U.S. hospitals to develop the innovative practices and systems that we describe in this article."Trecho retirado de "Delivering World-Class Health Care, Affordably"
"Número de desempregados desceu em Setembro para 864 mil, menos 9 mil do que no mês anterior. A taxa de desemprego caiu duas décimas face a Agosto, para 16,3%, o que representa o nível mais baixo em 13 meses.Mais uma vez, foi neste blogue que leu primeiro esta previsão, tão absurda de fazer há poucos meses.
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Este é já o oitavo mês seguido em que a taxa de desemprego em Portugal não sobe, tendo neste período apenas estabilizado em Agosto face a Julho. O registo de Setembro deste ano é o mais reduzido desde Agosto do ano passado, sendo que em termos homólogos já se observa uma queda (era de 16,4% em Setembro do ano passado)."
"Empresas já recuperaram quotas de mercado perdidas em 2005 e 2006Apesar do euro!!!
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“Houve ganhos de quotas de mercado nos últimos anos, de três, quatro pontos por ano, o que é muito significativo”, acrescentou. “As quotas que fomos perdendo até 2005 e 2006 encontram-se totalmente recuperadas. A posição [de Portugal] nos mercados externos é mais forte que em 1999”, afirmou ainda."
"“A tendência positiva na constituição de empresas tem sido uma marca de 2013”, registando-se um crescimento acumulado entre Janeiro e Setembro de 16,4% face ao período homólogo, destaca o barómetro que analisa o tecido empresarial português.Agora é fácil ridicularizar a treta da espiral recessiva, neste blogue essa ridicularização começou a 7 de Dezembro de 2012.
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Desde o início do ano, os serviços (32%), o retalho (16%) e o alojamento (11%) foram os sectores que mais contribuiram para o surgimento de novas empresas. Já na comparação com 2012, os sectores em que houve mais constituições foram as indústrias extractivas (60%) e transformadoras (22%) e as actividades financeiras (24%).
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Lisboa, Porto e Braga foram os distritos que concentraram o maior de número de novas empresas (28%, 19% e 9%, respectivamente), mas, à excepção da Guarda (onde houve uma quebra de 0,7%), todos os distritos registaram uma evolução positiva.
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Quanto às dissoluções de empresas, mantêm a tendência de queda desde o primeiro trimestre do ano e, no terceiro trimestre, diminuíram 17% face ao mesmo período de 2012.
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As insolvências também caíram, 5,6%, registando uma descida pelo terceiro trimestre consecutivo."
"Brands have been around for a long time. People often used symbols that stood for their products or their lineage, which may have had a relationship to the creation and purveyance of certain products. But modern branding really came into its own in the twentieth century. The ability to economically put a message in front of a consumer; the emergence of products that you could buy, rather than make yourself; and the pursuit of profits based on the economies of scale provided by manufacturing.., and communication began to suggest that creating a reason why someone should buy your product (as opposed to a competitor's) were good things. As Crawford describes it:E o que é que vai mudar com Mongo?
"Consumption, no less than production, needed to be brought under scientific management—the management of desire. Thus, there came to be marketers who called themselves "consumption engineers" in the early decades of the twentieth century."
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This represents a fundamental shift away from the maker/designer model in which the duality of design was mediated through individual decisions based on how the needs of the two sides (process/final artifact) should best be served. Now business was in the driver's seat and could use a more scientific approach to streamlining production and driving demand, with brand being the emerging point of focus for the consumer. In this situation, design's biggest effect would be felt in how the brand was brought to life and used; the decisions about product were no longer open and flexible, and consumers’ attention was often diverted away from the pragmatic tangible value, of the product-in favor of the intangible and aspirational value of the brand."
"Many consumers now think of some legal services ... as commodities differentiated only by price.Sugestões para fugir à comoditização?
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Commodities, after all, are uniform products that are selected on the basis of price, because price is the only thing that differentiates one offering from another. Services become commodities when clients see the outcome of a service as standard; that is, differences from one service provider to the next are irrelevant to the client’s desired outcomes.
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Most industries are experiencing an accelerating rate of commoditization and, therefore, pricing pressures in their markets. Many factors account for this:
- Most industries have matured, so that knowledge and quality that once separated competitors are now commonly available.
- Excess supply exists in most markets owing in large measure to the Internet, which has erased geographic boundaries, allowing companies to compete anywhere.
- Retailers use store brands to pressure manufacturers to reduce their prices.
- The Internet makes price shopping effortless for consumers and forces manufacturers into online auctions to win retail-store shelf space.
- A growing business service sector enables competitors to quickly copy good ideas.
Businesses try to escape commoditization through product innovation, branding centered on emotional benefits, and improved marketing communications."
- Customers have more control of companies’ images due to the rise in blogs.
"The recession offers unique opportunities to rethink your value promise and redefine the business that you are in. Before you create your next marketing plan or annual strategic plan, step back alone or with a group of partners and ask the following questions:Estas questões, esta reflexão, não serve só para escritórios de advogados, aplica-se também a uma padaria, a uma empresa de enchidos, a um hotel do interior, a ...
- 1) Why should clients work with you, versus other firms that also are qualified to meet their needs? Be careful to answer this question from the client’s perspective. ...
- 2) If you have a differentiated value promise, don’t rest on your laurels. What skills can you develop to make your value promise even more relevant, compelling, unique, and hard to copy? We work in a copycat economy in which competitors emulate others’ good ideas, creating more price-driven competition. The commoditization process is the gravitational force of the economy. You must keep improving your advantages to escape it.
- 3) If you lack a differentiated value promise, what problems and frustrations do your clients face with legal services? What does or could your organization do or have that no competitor could easily match that would address these challenges and greatly benefit current or potential clients?
- 4) How might you disrupt your own services to significantly decrease charges to clients for some or several services?
- 5) Would a different revenue model build a higher value with key clients?"
"Substituir uns políticos por outros (remover o bloqueio político) não servirá para nada se não forem alterados os dispositivos de políticas públicas que são as fontes dos défices e da dívida."Trecho retirado de "O que parece não é o que parece"
"Differing imperatives under low-cost strategies and differentiation strategies.In other words, life inside a cost leader looks very different from life inside a differentiator. In a cost leader, managers are forever looking to better understand the drivers of costs and are modifying their operations accordingly. (Moi ici: Recordar ao fazer a barba todos os dias) In a differentiator, managers are forever attempting to deepen their holistic understanding of customers to learn how to serve them more distinctively. In a cost leader, cost reduction is relentlessly pursued, while in a differentiator, the brand is relentlessly built.Customers are seen and treated very differently. At a cost leader, nonconforming customers - that is, customers who want something special and different from what the firm currently produces - are sacrificed to ensure standardization of the product or service, all in the pursuit of cost-effectiveness. At a differentiator, customers are jealously guarded. If customers indicate a desire for something different, the firm tries to design a new offering that the customers will adore....Both cost leadership and differentiation require the pursuit of distinctiveness. You don’t get to be a cost leader by producing your product or service exactly as your competitors do, and you don’t get to be a differentiator by trying to produce a product or service identical to your competitors’. To succeed in the long run, you must make thoughtful, creative decisions about how to win."Trecho retirado de "Playing to win" de Roger Martin e Lafley.
"If someone else is making money on what you choose not to do, it just might be a sign that you have a good strategy."Pois bem, agora descubro nesta reflexão de Rags Srinivasan em "Quote of the Century on Running a Business" :
"these plans would eat into Apple’s margins, and investors hate when that happens. True, but they would drive sales and improve Apple’s market share, which would be a boon to Apple’s future earnings, especially if you believe that its low smartphone market share leaves it vulnerable to Google."Se as escolhas estratégicas da Apple deixarem espaço para que "someone else" (Google) faça dinheiro com o que a Apple resolveu não fazer... o que é que isso pode querer dizer sobre a qualidade da estratégia da Apple?
"To the surprise of many, these firms are showing that commissions can sometimes do more harm than good—and that getting rid of them can open a path to higher profits.E recordo a diferença entre vendedores e consultores de compra.
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contingent rewards—I call them “if then” rewards, as in “If you do this, then you get that”—work well with routine tasks social scientists dub “algorithmic.” Think stuffing envelopes quickly or turning the same screw the same way on an assembly line. The promise of a reward, especially cash, excites our attention, and we focus narrowly on getting the job done.
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However, those same if-then rewards turn out to be far less effective for complex, creative, conceptual endeavors—what psychologists call “heuristic” work.
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That leads us back to sales. In the middle of the last century, selling was fairly simple. Memorize your script, open your sample case a certain way, fire back standard responses to predictable objections—and do it over and over again until the law of averages works in your favor.
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Today, though, the transactional aspects of sales are disappearing. When routine functions can be automated, and when customers and prospects often have as much data as the saleswoman herself, the skills that matter most are heuristic: Curating and interpreting information instead of merely dispensing it. Identifying new problems along with solving established ones. Selling insights rather than items.
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Should every company forswear sales commissions? No. But simply challenging this orthodoxy helps us recognize that selling today is sophisticated, complex work—and that the people doing it therefore require incentives beyond a dangled carrot."
"If someone else is making money on what you choose not to do, it just might be a sign that you have a good strategy."Uma boa lembrança para o facto de muitas estratégicas não preverem a exclusão de nada.
"However, not all the countries where bikes outsold cars were in economic dire straits. For instance, Lithuania, where bicycles outsold cars a little over nine times, saw its economy grow a healthy 3.6% last year. (That’s despite a slowdown in trade with the rest of the EU countries.) Even as economies recover in Europe and the US, people might be sticking to their bicycles."
"Se guia um Audi ou um Volkswagen é bem provável que as óticas do seu carro tenham sido feitas em Cucujães, uma freguesia do concelho de Oliveira de Azeméis.
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Antes de ser adquirida pelo grupo austríaco Aspock, em 2007, a empresa fabricava componentes e moldes de plástico, atividade que exercia desde a fundação, nos anos 70. Agora está concentrada na produção de farolins e óticas. Este momento marca também um impulso no crescimento nomeadamente na investigação, em que conta com departamentos de física ótica e térmica. A especialização faz parte da estratégia da empresa que dotou a estrutura de recursos humanos especializados em áreas tecnológicas. O processo envolveu parcerias com universidades como a de Aveiro ou a do Minho.
A evolução da eletrónica e do design na iluminação automóvel beneficiou a empresa que se especializou na tecnologia LED, muito em voga no mercado.
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Domingos Pinto explica que o negócio “está orientado para as marcas premium”, um segmento do mercado automóvel que tem conseguido manter-se à tona neste momento mais deprimido da economia."
"the bulk of the decision-making research published to date applies to one type of decision, and it’s not the type that’s most challenging for managers. Their most important and most difficult decisions - strategic decisions with consequences for the performance of the company - call for a very diferent approach.
The fact is that people need to make up their minds in a great variety of circumstances, and it’s a source of confusion that the same word, “decision,” is used for all of them.
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A decision. The same term is applied to routine as well as complex deliberations, to both small-stakes bets and high-stakes commitments, and to exploratory steps as well as irreversible moves.
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before we can advise people on how to make better strategic decisions, we need to equip them to recognize how decisions differ.
For that, we need to break the universe of decisions into a few categories. We can then suggest the
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Categorizing DecisionsDecisions vary along two dimensions: control and performance. The frst considers how much we can infuence the terms of the decision and the outcome. Are we choosing among options presented to us, or can we shape those options? Are we making a onetime judgment, unable to change what happens after the fact, or do we have some control over how things play out once we’ve made the decision? The second dimension addresses the way we measure success. Is our aim to do well, no matter what anyone else does, or do we need to do better than others? That is, is performance absolute or relative?
Decisions in the Fourth FieldThe crux of our discussion comes into focus when we consider the fourth field. For these decisions, we can actively infuence outcomes, and success means doing better than rivals. Here we fnd the essence of strategic management. Business executives aren’t like shoppers picking a product or investors choosing a stock, simply making a choice that leads to one outcome or another. By the way they lead and communicate, and through their ability to inspire and encourage, executives can influence outcomes. That’s the definition of “management.” Moreover, they are in charge of organizations that compete vigorously with others; doing better than rivals is vital. That’s where strategy comes in.Penso logo no desafio de fazer passar a mensagem, em algumas empresas, de que um consultor não pode tirar uma estratégia da prateleira para aplicação.
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What sort of mind-set do they require? When we can infuence outcomes, it is useful to summon high levels of self-belief. And when we need to outperform rivals, such elevated levels are not just useful but indeed essential. Only those who are able to muster a degree of commitment and determination that is by some defnitions excessive will be in a position to win. That’s not to say that wildly optimistic thinking will predictably lead to success. It won’t. But in tough competitive situations where positive thinking can influence outcomes, only those who are willing to go beyond what seems reasonable will succeed."
"This condition . . . shifting baseline syndrome . . . refers to how we become used to whatever state of affairs is true when we are born, or when we first look at a situation.Ao ler isto lembrei-me logo deste postal recente "Three Dangerous Temptations":
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His point is that it’s easy to take the ways things are for granted. We assume they have always been this way and will likely remain that way in the future. This can fool us into believing that there is some objective logic or rationale for why things are the way they are and that we can reliably build on that interpretation. A healthy counterview to shifting baseline syndrome is that the world is in constant flux and probably a lot less linear and serial than we think. What exists today is circumstantial, driven by infl uences we may not see, and therefore should not be assumed as being
the right, or only, way to look at things."
"Accepting an Existing Choice as Immutable It can also be tempting to view a where-to-play choice as a given, as having been made for you. But a company always has a choice of where to play.E recuo até este outro "Drive markets" onde se pode ler:
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It is tempting to think that you have no choice in where to play, because it makes for a great excuse for mediocre performance. It is not easy to change playing fields, but it is doable and can make all the difference."
"Isto nem sempre é fácil... muitos olham para o mercado não como uma variável que se pode tentar alterar em nosso favor, mas como um dado do problema, uma condição imposta. Assim, acabam por se auto-limitar, por se auto-censurar, por reduzir as hipóteses de sucesso futuro."
"Anybody who uses the term "efficient relationships" has never had an effective relationship. "Efficient relationship" = Oxymoron.Sequência de tweets de Tom Peters que arquivei em Junho passado .
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NEVER FORGET: Innovation = INEFFICIENT process. Eg: Slop. Chaos. Big steps back. Disruptive oddballs. Slapdash demos. Unplanned connections.
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Innovation = INEFFICIENCY. Idle chatter. Chance encounters. Determined enemies. Daydreamers. Unrealistic deadlines. Severe under-funding.
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Nothing wakes up a planning session better than a truly half-assed, premature projected timeline.
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Want immediate engagement around a proposal? Nothing better than a horrible draft document. (Polished is a "Don't mess with this" signal.)"
"If the customers come to better understand value and willing to pay price for it, you two would be crazy not to provide that value at a price that lets you capture your fair share of value created.""Come to better understand value" ... como é que se consegue acelerar este processo? O que é que a sua empresa faz para o acelerar?
"Imagining a New Where to Play Sometimes the key to finding a new place to play is to simply believe that one is possible."Este é o ponto fundamental, acreditar que uma outra alternativa existe, acreditar que aquilo que os membros da tríade dizem e escrevem nos media não é necessariamente verdade ou uma Lei universal.
"Then, out of curiosity – let’s call it “research” - I asked if I was entitled to a volume discount since I was buying so much. Without giving it a second thought, the butcher chopped the per pound price from $8 to $6. As a consumer I appreciated the $60 savings - but as a consultant who helps businesses optimize their pricing, I wondered if the butcher realized how much of the store’s operating profit margin disappeared due to his hastily-considered discount.O lookingforjohn vai recordar uma cena deste tipo.
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While there are sound reasons to provide volume discounts, most companies over use them and offer them with too little thought. The next time you are contemplating offering a volume discount, ask yourself, “Do I really have to do this?” Back in my gourmet store, I’d already committed to buying 30 pounds of Korean ribs, discount or no discount. It was a classic case of a manager extending a discount that took a wholly unnecessary slice out of profits."
"El aumento de los costes de producción en Asia, especialmente en China, pone en movimiento a los principales polos de fabricación textil en el mundo. Marruecos, uno de los mayores proveedores de la moda española, se ha marcado el objetivo de aprovechar el hueco que deja Asia en el escenario textil internacional e impulsar sus exportaciones."
"Não tenho nenhum gosto em importar a matéria-prima de Itália, preferia comprar no mercado nacional. Contudo..."E o contudo é que estraga tudo...
"Não apresentam produtos novos.Recordar "A minha interpretação"
Não actualizam catálogos.
Não têm cores novas.
Querem quantidades grandes.
Querem prazos de entrega impensáveis.
Não conseguem rigor nas cores de um lote para o outro"
""A economia digital tem vindo a aumentar o peso no PIB do país, à semelhança do que tem acontecido em países como Inglaterra ou Alemanha", considerou, em declarações à Lusa, Alexandre Nilo Fonseca, presidente da ACEPI - Associação do Comércio Eletrónico e Publicidade Interativa, no dia em que apresentou o estudo..
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O comércio eletrónico B2C cresceu 52% entre 2009 e 2012, (Moi ici: Não esquecer, num mercado em queda abrupta o comércio electrónico está a crescer, ou seja, o que o retalho tradicional está a sofrer não se deve só à baixa do poder de compra) tendo o volume de negócios ascendido a 2,3 mil milhões de euros no ano passado, com, um peso de 1,5% do peso, que deverá aumentar para 1,7% este ano (2,6 mil milhões de euros).
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Em 2017, o estudo da consultora IDC e da ACEPI aponta para um volume de negócios de quatro mil milhões de euros (2,5% do PIB)."
"Tinha cerca de 30 anos quando percebeu que havia um nicho de mercado que podia ser explorado: a alta qualidade. Pôs os pés a caminho de Viseu, porque Portugal está-lhe na alma, e fundou numa cave a Abyss & Habidecor.
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A empresa foi crescendo, sempre com o objectivo de produzir qualidade e não quantidade.
O segredo da qualidade? "É tudo feito à mão, com as melhores matérias-primas, algodão do Egipto - não é qualquer algodão, é o Giza 70, um dos melhores do mundo - cachemira da Mongólia, seda da Ásia e linho - e não queremos ir por outro caminho". São as 200 pessoas que actualmente emprega o grupo, que trabalham o artigo desde o fio até à entrega ao cliente final. Pierre Lemos destaca ainda que uma das características das unidades é a flexibilidade.
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"Fazemos todos os artigos à medida que o cliente quiser e personalizamos o produto ao máximo, desde a cor até protecções contra frio ou calor extremo", salienta.
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Para o futuro, a empresa definiu um objectivo: reduzir dos actuais 1500 clientes para 500. "Queremos facturar mais com menos clientes, queremos melhores clientes, melhorar ainda mais a relação com os clientes", diz Pierre. (Moi ici: Eis um parágrafo que devia ser objecto de várias tertúlias entre empresários... o que é que isto quer dizer? o que é que isto significa? o que é que isto implica no que fazemos e como fazemos? o que é que isto implica sobre o como vendemos e comunicamos? Até parece que a frase foi escrita por este blogue e "metida" aqui só para fazer cabeças pensarem fora da caixa, fora dos condicionamentos do mainstream)
"Quais são os principais problemas das PME?.Se tivesse de eleger uma debilidade diria: a qualidade da gestão. Há problemas de custo de contexto, de financiamento, de muitas outras coisas, mas o essencial é a qualidade dos recursos humanos e, dentro destes, a qualidade dos que estão no topo, no comando da empresa. As boas empresas têm tecnologia, têm organização, têm produto, dão-se bem com a concorrência porque são bem geridas."Quanto mais contacto e conheço as PMEs mais me consciencializo que o empresário português não é, em média, nem melhor nem pior do que o de outros países.
"há muito empreendedorismo em Portugal, em alguns casos de grande qualidade, ligados nomeadamente à tecnologia e ao conhecimento, “mas a taxa de mortalidade infantil dessas empresas é muito elevada”."O que é que o ex-líder da Associação Comercial do Porto considera "muito elevada"? O que é que seria um valor aceitável para essa taxa?
"Remember that 96% of all business start-ups in the US fail within 10 years,"Trecho inicial retirado de "Rui Moreira: "A taxa de mortalidade infantil das empresas é muito elevada""
"Unicharm Corp. (8113)’s sales of adult diapers in Japan exceeded those for babies for the first time last year. At Daiei Inc. (8263) supermarkets, customers can feel Japan aging -- literally: It has made shopping carts lighter."Via João Pereira da Silva no Facebook
"The impacts to business are potentially tremendous. One can print personalized goods for your own style. Items can be printed on-demand and delivered to you within days. They can also be printed at scale and replicated quickly by printing an entire batch. These resources aren’t limited to consumers alone. Progressive companies like Nokia have made their STL 3D printing files available to the 3D printing community, encouraging them to print out their own cases.
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The potential impacts for business are quite significant:
- Anyone can become a designer or manufacturer, without ever leaving home.
- Rapid design and prototypes can be printed quickly.
- No need to configure large warehouses and supply chains. 3D printers print quickly, on-demand.
- Print only what you need, reducing the costly overhead of warehouses and excess inventory.
- Customize and personalize for individuals, radically changing the game.
- Eventually, use recyclable or sustainable materials, preserving our resources."
"Em relação a essa última declaração Vintage, de 2009, a empresa liderada por Adrian Bridge decidiu este ano aumentar os preços entre 12% a 15%. E foi com estes topos de gama (como sempre proclamados ao mundo no dia de São Jorge, festejado a 23 de Abril) que conseguiu entrar agora em novos mercados, como o Líbano, e crescer noutros, como a Coreia do Sul, Singapura e Austrália."Pelos vistos o sector deu a volta e percebeu que não faz sentido abastardar-se para vender volume (recordar 2008) (recordar também esta postura "posicionar o vinho do Porto na categoria do luxo")
"The management review shall include consideration of:Se calhar estou a ser um preciosista tótó; contudo, na verdade, nas "análises críticas pela gestão" (a versão brasileira de management review é mais adequada do que "revisão pela gestão") não se definem acções, tomam-se decisões.
a) the status of actions from previous management reviews;
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The outputs of the management review shall include decisions related to:"
[St. Thomas] "Aquinas did not think that a just price is God-given. His thinking was actually driven more by market demand than divine determination. He specifically separated a just price from divine authority.Gente muito à frente!!!
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the Scholastic Luis Saravia de la Calle (c. 1544) wrote that “the just price arises from the abundance or scarcity of goods, merchants and money . . . and not from costs, labor and risk. . . . Prices are not commonly fixed based on costs. Why should a bale of linen brought overland from Brittany at great expense be worth more than one which is transported cheaply by sea?”
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San Bernardino of Siena (1380–1444) carried the idea of a market-based price to the extreme. He went so far as to say that the market price is fair even if it is below the producer’s costs. The
same idea was expressed a hundred years later by Francisco de Vitoria (c. 1480–1546) who argued that prices should be set “without regard to labor costs, expenses, or incurred risks. Inefficient producers or unfortunate speculators should simply bear the consequences of their incompetence, bad luck or wrong forecasting.”
"results are what matters in entrepreneurship, not laurels. The bar is always raised, often by entrepreneurs themselves. Actual value creation as an outcome, and not the intention to create value, is essential. If value is not created, then the entrepreneurship is not complete; the market, having judged at the outset that what he or she is doing is worthless, impossible, or stupid, might just as likely have been correct. So I conclude that entrepreneurs do not get an A for effort. If they did, a lot of goofy efforts would have to be called entrepreneurship.Trechos retirados de “Worthless, Impossible, and Stupid" de David Isenberg
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entrepreneurs always live on the market precipice, peering over into the abyss of potential failure. (Moi ici: Lembrei-me logo da fauna dos direitos adquiridos)
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The “necessity” of accepting failure as a likely, even a vital, feature of entrepreneurship has become a popular topic. Indeed, from a societal perspective, there is evidence of a positive relationship between the sheer quantities of ventures that fail when they are young (the more the better) and the quality of failure (the quicker and less costly it is to fail, the more venture formation occurs), and the ability of a society to foster successful ventures in sufficient quantities. So to encourage entrepreneurship, society must make failure structurally easy—legally, administratively, and culturally. Labor flexibility and liberalizing bankruptcy make exit from failures easy. Governments that implement these few reforms discover that it does indeed help create a flow of new aspirants; high failure rates and high success rates (more of the latter) go hand in hand with high value creation."
"differences between countries are larger than generally acknowledged. As a result, strategies that presume complete global integration tend to place far too much emphasis on international standardization and scalar expansion.Ontem, ouvi falar da internacionalização da Abyss & Habidecor, hoje, ao pesquisar sobre a empresa encontrei este estudo "ADAPTAÇÃO CULTURAL DO PRODUTO: O CASO ABYSS & HABIDECOR":
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“The real state of the world is semiglobalized.
The world will remain semiglobalized for decades to come.
A semiglobalized perspective helps companies resist a variety of delusions derived from visions of the globalization apocalypse: growth fever, the norm of enormity, statelessness, ubiquity, and one-size-fits-all.
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Semiglobalization is what offers room for cross-border strategy to have content distinct from single –country strategy.”
"O processo de globalização não está a levar à homogeneização do comportamento do consumidor entre países. Pelo contrário, o comportamento do consumidor está a tornar-se mais heterogéneo devido às diferenças culturais. As estratégias de venda para um país não podem ser estendidas a outros países sem adaptação, adaptação do produto e/ou publicidade. Este fenómeno torna cada vez mais importante compreender os valores das diferentes culturas e o seu impacto no comportamento do consumidor.As multinacionais, que têm arcaboiço para as fábricas de tamanho "cecil b. demile", gostariam de viver num mundo de bolas azuis, mas esse tempo, bom para os dinossauros, o Jurássico, teve o seu expoente no século XX, agora, o futuro é Mongo, aliás, os sintomas de Mongo estão em todo o lado.
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Os resultados mostram que, neste caso, os consumidores de diferentes países têm necessidades e gostos diferentes, pois compram diferentes modelos, cores e medidas de tapetes e toalhas. Deste modo, pode afirmar-se que, de facto, não parece que a globalização esteja a levar à homogeneização do comportamento do consumidor."
"Cuidado com o aumento dos descontos e a redução dos preços"
"A inovação ao nível das características técnicas dos capacetes, do conforto e do design, tem-lhe trazido notoriedade nacional e internacional."Eis um relato que demonstra o poder da experiência sobre o excel, o poder do valor sobre os custos, o poder da diferenciação:
""Há fenómenos que aconteceram ainda antes de começarmos a trabalhar para isso. Por exemplo, quase no início da Nexx, em 2004, 2005, fez-se um capacete revestido em ganga, que começou por ser uma brincadeira, a nível interno da fábrica, foi levado para uma feira, e de repente estava a aparecer em tudo o que era revista de moda. Hoje em dia a empresa já começa a ser uma presença assídua nas revistas""Não descurando a parte técnica, fundamental para não afugentar os influenciadores, prescritores e consumidores:
"Nos últimos anos, acrescenta, desenvolveu-se também o fenómeno dos "reviews", ou seja, das análises técnicas de publicações especializadas. "Felizmente, temos tido excelentes "reviews" que, por sua vez, também têm influenciado os leitores""Contudo, para mim, ignorante do sector, isto, porque é replicável facilmente para quem tem know-how e dinheiro, não passa de um bilhete para poder competir. A diferença vem depois:
"A Nexx procura seguir as tendências da moda, utilizando mais de 40 cores nas diferentes gamas de produto. O design inovador chama a atenção das marcas de prestígio, caso da Hugo Boss e Swarovsky, com as quais foram estabelecidas parcerias."
"Three Dangerous TemptationsTrecho retirado de "Playing to Win" de Lafley e Roger Martin
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you should avoid three pitfalls when thinking about where to play. The first is to refuse to choose, attempting to play in every field all at once. The second is to attempt to buy your way out of an inherited and unattractive choice. The third is to accept a current choice as inevitable or unchangeable.
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Failing to Choose
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Focus is a crucial winning attribute. Attempting to be all things to all customers tends to result in underserving everyone. Even the strongest company or brand will be positioned to serve some customers better than others. If your customer segment is “everyone” or your geographic choice is “everywhere,” you haven’t truly come to grips with the need to choose.
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Trying to Buy Your Way Out of an Unattractive Game
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Companies often attempt to move out of an unattractive game and into an attractive one through acquisition. (Moi ici: Isto faz-me lembrar um caso... aqui a vaidade pessoal também tem um peso importante) Unfortunately, it rarely works. A company that is unable to strategize its way out of a current challenging game will not necessarily excel at a different one—not without a thoughtful approach to building a strategy in both industries. Most often, an acquisition adds complexity to an already scattered and fragmented strategy, making it even harder to win overall.
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Accepting an Existing Choice as Immutable It can also be tempting to view a where-to-play choice as a given, as having been made for you. But a company always has a choice of where to play. (Moi ici: Já escrevemos aqui sobre isto, sobre transformar a constante, o dado, numa variável, na sequência dos trabalhos de Storbacka e Nenonen - scripting markets)
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It is tempting to think that you have no choice in where to play, because it makes for a great excuse for mediocre performance. It is not easy to change playing fields, but it is doable and can make all the difference."
“We are entering an era of hyperspecialization — a very different, and not yet widely understood, world of work.”Trecho retirado de "Welcome to the Era of Hyperspecialization"
"It took four years for Airbnb to serve its first 4 million guests — a number which has grown to 9 million in the nine months since the end of last year. In the time since CEO Brian Chesky spoke at YC’s Startup School in 2010, the service has grown more than 73x, according to Blecharczyk."Trecho retirado de "Airbnb Has Now Served 9M Guests Since Being Founded, Up From 4M At The End Of Last Year"
" try to serve a few users that love their product, rather than many who just like it.
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“do things that don’t scale.”"
"A hotelaria portuguesa poderá ter um ano de recordes em 2013. Até ao final do ano, o sector prevê receber 14,5 milhões de hóspedes, contra 13,9 milhões em 2012, e 42 milhões de dormidas, face aos 39,8 milhões do ano passado. “Nunca se atingiram estes números em Portugal e vamos ter resultados significativos este ano”, sublinha o presidente da Associação da Hotelaria de Portugal (AHP), Luís Veiga, em entrevista ao SOL."Pois... o senhor já se retratou?
"I’ve witnessed the challenge and pain of poor strategic planning efforts that is prevalent among many ... executives.Lembro-me logo das muitas empresas que declaram que a sua estratégia é:
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Part of the pain is caused by absolutely horrendous definitions of strategy. Ask 10 ... CEOs what their firm’s strategy is and 7 are likely to say “Superior service.”
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Sorry, but that doesn’t come close to passing the Drucker test (or any other test of strategic definition). Service means different things to different people, provides no guidance on what should and shouldn’t be invested in, and because it isn’t measurable, doesn’t help an organization determine if it is outperforming the competition or not."
"Ter uma qualidade superior"Mas quem é que quer optar por uma qualidade inferior e promover essa mensagem?
"The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do"Quando se diz:
"Ter uma qualidade superior"E o que é que vão deixar de fazer?
"And so the traditional American high school was never intended to be a place where students would learn how to think deeply or develop internal motivation or persevere when faced with difficulty—all the skills needed to persist in college. Instead, it was a place where, for the most part, students were rewarded for just showing up and staying awake.Trecho retirado de "How Children Succed" de Paul Tough.
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For a while, Roderick wrote, this formula worked well. “High school teachers could have very high workloads and manage them effectively because they expected most of their students to do little work,” she recounted. “Most students could get what they and their parents wanted, the high school credential, with little effort.” There was, she wrote, “an unwritten contract between students and teachers that said, ‘Put up with high school, do your seat time, and behave properly, and you will be rewarded.’”
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But then the world changed, and the American high school didn’t. As the wage premium paid to college graduates increased, high-school students voiced an increasing desire to graduate from college—between 1980 and 2002, the percentage of American tenth-graders who said they wanted to obtain at least a BA doubled, from 40 percent to 80 percent. But most of those students didn’t have the nonacademic skills—the character strengths, as Martin Seligman would put it—they needed to survive in college, and the traditional American high school didn’t have a mechanism to help them acquire those skills."
"Of all the competing claims on America’s education dollar — more technology, smaller classes, universal prekindergarten, school choice — the one option that would seem to be a no-brainer is investing in good teachers. But universities have proved largely immutable. Educators, including some inside these institutions, say universities have treated education programs as “cash cows.” The schools see no incentive to change because they have plenty of applicants willing to pay full tuition, the programs are relatively cheap to run, and they are accountable to no one except accrediting agencies run by, you guessed it, education schools. It’s a contented cartel.Por cá é igual, durante tantos anos se alguém não sabia o que fazer ia para ... professor(a).
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Among reformers, there is a fair amount of consensus about what it would take to fix things. The first step is to make teacher colleges much more selective.
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Too much student teaching is too superficial — less a serious apprenticeship than a drive-by."
"Pattern perception is central to our lives, and skill in many professions is based almost entirely on the ability to rapidly recognize a large variety of important patterns.Mais uma leitura que recomendo vivamente "The Invisible Gorilla - And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us" de Christopher Chabris e Daniel Simons.
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We can’t help but see patterns in the world and make predictions based on those patterns.
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These extraordinary pattern detection abilities often serve us well, enabling us to draw conclusions in seconds (or milliseconds) that would take minutes or hours if we had to rely on laborious logical calculations.
Unfortunately, they can also lead us astray, contributing to the illusion of cause. At times, we perceive patterns where none exist, and we misperceive them where they do exist. Regardless of whether a repeating pattern actually exists, when we perceive that it does, we readily infer that it results from a causal relationship. Much as our memory for the world can be distorted to match our conceptions of what we should remember, and just as we can fail to see the gorillas around us because they do not fit with our preexisting expectations, our understanding of our world is systematically biased to perceive meaning rather than randomness and to infer cause rather than coincidence. And we are usually completely unaware of these biases."
"As exportações de têxteis e vestuário portugueses para a China cresceram cerca de 37% nos primeiros oito meses de 2013, ultrapassando os 50 milhões de euros, indicou hoje fonte oficial portuguesa à agência Lusa."
"As exportações de vinho verde deverão ultrapassar os 40 milhões de euros em 2013, cerca de 39% da faturação total, disse esta segunda-feira à Lusa o presidente da Comissão de Viticultura da Região dos Vinhos Verdes (CVRVV).Trecho retirado de "Exportações: Vinho verde regista "melhor ano de sempre""
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Estes resultados, assegura Manuel Pinheiro, representam o "melhor ano de sempre" em termos de exportações de vinho verde, o que face aos resultados de 2012 será um crescimento "entre 12 e 15%"."
"Vamos exportar cerca de 36, 37% do nosso negócio, que é o maior valor de sempre."Trecho retirado de "Manuel Pinheiro: 2013 vai ser ano recorde de exportações de vinho verde"
"Os jovens do Algarve instalados no sector da agricultura quadruplicaram em sete anos, são licenciados em diversas engenharias como biomédicas, mecânica ou electrotécnica e apostam nas fileiras do mel, abacate e frutos vermelhos.O que eu sorrio com esta referência que se segue aos "diospireiros"
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O director da Direcção Regional de Agricultura e Pescas (DRAPAlg) chamou de "revolução" e "viragem" no sector agrícola da região algarvia a chegada de tantos jovens à terra - cerca de 500 - nos últimos sete anos.
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Segundo o mesmo responsável, até 2007 o número rondava os 100 jovens agricultores."
"Os tradicionais citrinos continuam a ser uma das apostas agrícolas destes novos agricultores, mas a plantação de "floricultura", de medronheiros, frutos vermelhos (framboesa e morango), frutos subtropicais (abacate), diospireiros ou a apicultura (mel) são outras das fileiras em que investem, acrescentou.Trechos retirados de "Jovens agricultores quadruplicam no Algarve"
A produção de mel, abacate e de frutos vermelhos é quase toda para exportação para a Europa e para fora da Europa, como Nova Zelândia, e "continua a haver procura destes produtos no mercado", sustentou, referindo que os jovens agricultores algarvios criaram cerca de "mil postos de trabalho" com os seus projectos no âmbito do PRODER."
"França continua a ser o principal mercado, registando um aumento de 3% de vendas face a 2012 para 176 milhões de euros, seguindo-se Espanha com 152 milhões de euros, o que equivale a um decréscimo de vendas de 4%."Notável o crescimento das exportações para:
"Na verdade, neste mês de julho, o volume de exportações de produtos e equipamentos do setor foi o terceiro mais elevado de sempre.Recordar que este sector, sem incluir os automóveis, é só o maior sector exportador do país em euros.
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Concretamente, o setor exportou no mês em causa um total de € 1.181.731.313,00, o que se traduziu num crescimento de 10% relativamente ao mês imediatamente anterior e, mais importante ainda, num aumento de 9,1% face ao mês homólogo do ano anterior.
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Estes números adquirem especial importância pelo facto de não refletirem um mero fogacho de um mês e indiciarem sim, pelo contrário, uma tendência consolidada de muitos meses.
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Com efeito, depois de o ano de 2012 ter sido o melhor de sempre do setor em tal âmbito – com um volume de cerca de 12.700 milhões de euros -, o presente ano de 2013 promete ser no mínimo tão bom como o anterior.
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Aliás, já no passado mês de maio, o volume de exportações registado havia sido o segundo melhor de sempre. Donde decorre pois que, num espaço de apenas 3 meses, ocorreram duas das três melhores performances do setor desde que há registo de exportações.
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Outro dado relevante que se consolida reporta-se à diversificação crescente dos mercados mais importantes e à consequente redução da dependência do país face aos seus clientes tradicionais."
"The consensus among those who responded? Don’t ignore warning signs, even if you really want the work.Se os profissionais independentes o fazem, porque é que a sua empresa não o faz?
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All agreed that bad clients were not worth it. So how to spot them?
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One red flag is if they have unrealistic expectations.
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Other signs? Rudeness. Hostility or outrage at your prices (it is all right to negotiate cost, but in a professional manner). Disrespect for your work. Having no idea what they want."
"about 42 million Americans are “independent workers.” That’s one-third of the work force."Em Portugal, segundo as regras do INE, os trabalhadores independentes não contam para a estatística do número de empregados.
"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." "