"nega-se a hipótese aos terceiros de, longe do garrote da falência, poderem optar por uma estratégia de saída do negócio por cima."
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Estou a falar sobre a diferença entre falhar e desistir, como refere Seth Godin no seu livro The Dip:
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"Strategic quitting is a conscious decision you make based on the choices that are available to you. If you realize you're at a dead end compared with what you could be investing in, quitting is not only a reasonable choice, it's a smart one.
Failing, on the other hand, means that your dream is over. Failing happens when you give up, when there are no other options, or when you quit so often that you've used up all your time and resources.
It's easy to wring your hands about becoming a failure. Quitting smart, though, is a great way to avoid failing.
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'Wait a minute. Didn't that coach say quitting was a bad idea? Actually, quitting as a short-term strategy is a bad idea. Quitting for the long term is an excellent idea.
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Quitting is not the same as panicking. Panic is never premeditated. Panic attacks us, it grabs us, it is in the moment.
Quitting when you're panicked is dangerous and expensive. The best quitters, as we've seen, are the ones who decide in advance when they're going to quit. You can always quit later-so wait until you're done panicking to decide.”"
Ontem recebi este artigo do The McKinsey Quarterly “The value of flexibility” onde se conjuga a realidade económica actual com as decisões de localização de uma unidade de produção.
“Manufacturers rethinking their operational footprint often consider only a single set of cost, profitability, and demand assumptions. McKinsey’s client experience shows what’s missing: a careful assessment of the value of operational flexibility. Flexibility can take a variety of forms—the ability to adjust production volumes efficiently, to change the production mix among different products or models, to move production from one location to another, or to reconfigure the timing of production, for example. Such strategies help companies respond to changes in local demand, currency levels, labor rates, tariffs, taxes, transportation costs, and so forth.”
Ou seja, na linha do que aqui temos reflectido sobre o papel, sobre a importância da proximidade, da flexibilidade, do risco acrescido da cadeia de valor.
“In our experience, the missing ingredient in many manufacturing-strategy decisions is a careful consideration of the value of flexibility. Companies that build it into their manufacturing presence can respond more nimbly to changing conditions and outperform competitors with less flexible footprints. As the current economic turmoil illustrates, the greater the level of uncertainty, the greater the value of flexibility. This is not surprising; real-options theory maintains that flexibility is more important when volatility is more intense. To capture this value and gain the best position for responding to future economic changes, all companies should integrate flexibility into their manufacturing-footprint or sourcing decisions.”
É por causa deste retorno da maré que tenho algum optimismo quanto ao futuro da micro-economia na Europa. Por isso, é necessário repensar a estratégia.
BTW:
esta segunda-feira estive numa empresa que vai de vento em popa, exporta;
esta terça e quarta-feira estive numa empresa que vai de vento em popa, exporta (crescimento a dois dígitos face a 2008);
esta quinta-feira estive numa empresa que vai de vento em popa, exporta
hoje, vou a caminho de uma empresa que não tem mãos a medir, não exporta.
Só posso imaginar o iceberg de práticas, as famosas estruturas sistémicas que se escondem debaixo da superfície das águas e que periodicamente, aparecem para nos surpreender. Lembram-se do iceberg de Senge? . Eventos/Resultados - no topo . Comportamentos - a seguir . Estruturas sistémicas - a seguir . E, por fim... os modelos mentais
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ADENDA: O ruído que começa a gerar-se: cartas, off-label, agência europeia, infarmed, ordem dos médicos, colégio da especialidade... faz-me pensar, no meio da minha ignorância, será outro carro cubano?
Este é o tempo para repensar a estratégia.
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"Business leaders ought to recognise, as they catch their breath after months of turbulence, that the strategy they were pursuing until recently is unlikely to be right for today.
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It’s not just that markets have changed. Your organisation has changed. You may have all been through a near-death experience. Even if you avoided calamity, it is unlikely that colleagues are the same carefree people you remember from a year or two ago. Most businesses have been making serious cutbacks. Co-workers may be doing their best to look calm and positive. But they can see unemployment rising and know that sustained recovery is a long way off."
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Para repensar a estratégia Stefan Stern chama a atenção para quatro tarefas cruciais:
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"Four principal tasks emerged as vital for a successful reinvention of strategy: uncovering hidden risks that undermine strategy; using the power of organisational identity; reviving the strategy process; and adapting leadership styles.
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Hidden risks can derail strategy. Do your people really believe in what you are advocating, or does their apparent tacit approval in fact conceal a determined (or subconscious) attempt to subvert it?Are managers throughout the organisation “taking ownership” of the strategy, or simply passing it off as something that has little to do with them?"
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Crediblidade é fundamental... se as pessoas não acreditam, a corrosão do cinismo é terrível.
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Outro ponto, faz-me recordar o que Goldmann escreve com outros no livro "Os Novos Líderes" esta questão da ressonância, da coerência, do alinhamento:
"At our strategy days we ask: ‘Does this resonate with who we are?’”
In a battle between culture and strategy, culture usually wins. So in drawing up new strategy, make sure it is not in conflict with an organisational identity that could otherwise engulf and overwhelm it."
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Ainda uma outra fileira de reflexão, por acaso... (mas será que há acasos?) ontem, ao retomar uma auditoria, após o intervalo para almoço, referi ao meu interlocutor a reflexão, ou os ensinamentos do artigo de Lippe e Salterio sobre o perigo de mudanças de gestores colocarem em posições que interferem com a execução estratégica, pessoas que não partiram a pedra da reflexão estratégica e, por isso, olham para ela pelo valor facial... falta-lhes a experiência de a ter criado e de toda a envolvência que a alicerçou.
"Reviving the strategy process is no less important. Here the most interesting ideas put forward have come from Cognosis, another London-based consultancy. Its managing partner, Richard Brown, has spoken of the need to develop “emotionally intelligent strategy” – one that is meaningful and credible to employees. Such strategies are not developed, Mr Brown argues, when only senior management is involved in their creation. Factual analysis might convince the boardroom but can be seen as lifeless by everybody else. For most employees, belief is much more important than simple understanding if they are going to execute a strategy successfully."
Que são tempos para repensar a estratégia disso não tenho dúvidas.
E mais, fazendo o paralelismo entre a economia e a biologia, não creio que a velocidade da evolução biológica seja constante, ela é permanente, está sempre presente. No entanto, acontecimentos excepcionais criam rupturas que abrem janelas de oportunidade e aceleram, para os oportunistas atentos, as hipóteses de evolução.
No nosso livro seguimos a máxima de começar pelo fim. Quando começamos pelo fim, a finalidade, a razão de ser, o propósito é onde pousam os nossos olhos. . Quando afastamos os olhos da bola é que começam os problemas, perdemos a noção do que é importante, perdemos de vista a razão de ser da nossa organização. . Porque acredito nestas palavras, chamou-me a atenção este trecho de Scott Berkun no seu livro "The Art of Project Management": . "The simpler your view of what you do, the more power and focus you will have in doing it. If we can periodically maintain a simple view of our work, we can find useful comparisons to other ways to make things that exist all around us. ... This is similar to the concept defined by the Japanese word shoshin, which means beginner's mind, or open mind, an essential part of many martial arts disciplines. Staying curious and open is what makes growth possible, and it requires practice to maintain that mindset. To keep learning, we have to avoid the temptation to slide into narrow, safe views of what we do." . Um visão simples, despida de canga, focada no essencial é fundamental. Até para avaliar a eficácia do que fazemos.
Vítor Bento no Diário Económico de hoje "O pós-crise": . "Portugal está preso numa armadilha de duradouro empobrecimento relativo. Mesmo que a recuperação já seja sensível em 2011, o PIB português não deverá voltar a atingir o valor alcançado em 2007 (o mais elevado até agora) antes de 2014 (i.e. após sete anos de "seca" económica, e com os juros pagos ao exterior a crescer com o endividamento, o período de "seca" do rendimento nacional deve durar, pelo menos, mais um ano). Em cima disto, as previsões da OCDE só vêm confirmar que temos pela frente um duradouro, e grave, problema económico, com iniludíveis consequências sociais (vg persistência de desemprego nos dois dígitos). . Nestas condições, seria de esperar que a atenção política se concentrasse na gestão do pós-crise, visando dotar a economia da competitividade necessária para tirar o melhor partido possível da retoma mundial, gerando crescimento económico e contendo o endividamento. Isso deveria estar, pois, no centro da próxima campanha eleitoral. Infelizmente, nada sugere que assim seja. As promessas necessárias para ganhar eleições, nem sempre são as necessárias para governar melhor o bem comum. . Daí que a retórica eleitoral se vá concentrar mais no fomento de expectativas distributivas de menos, por menos, do que da criação sustentável de riqueza, para se poder vir a distribuir mais, por mais. E quanto mais se insistir nas primeiras, mais nos afastaremos da segunda. Apesar da nova versão da "economia voodoo". . Em sintonia com a reflexão de Daniel Bessa no último número do semanário Expresso "Foco no Longo Prazo": . "Só vejo preocupações com o curto prazo: com as falências, que aumentam; com o desemprego, que cresce; com a distribuição do rendimento, que é cada vez mais desigual. . Não quero menosprezar estas questões mas, quanto mais nos preocuparmos com elas, menos resolveremos a questão do longo prazo. A longo prazo exige-se oferta, mais do que procura; foco na produção, mais do que na distribuição de rendimento." . Lá está um político, agora mesmo na rádio a prometer mais redistribuição... mas onde vai ele buscar dinheiro para o cheque dentista, para o cheque ...
Este artigo dá que pensar "Germany's Export Champions Slammed by Economy Crisis" . "Orders have plunged by anywhere from 30 to 50 percent, in some cases even more. This, in turn, has created massive excess capacity. Temporary workers have long been let go, and fixed-term contracts have expired. Most of the remaining workers are now on state-supported short-time working schemes, where the government helps to make up their lost income. . A company that has lost half of its business needs to grow by about 10 percent a year for at least seven years to return to former levels. More realistically, management should consider itself lucky if there is any growth at all in the near future. The direct consequences include mass layoffs, plant closures and bankruptcies." . A retoma está mesmo quase a começar. . E na Itália: "Isae Cuts Forecast, Says Italian Economy to Contract 5.3% in ’09"
"We didn't need a Department of Innovation to achieve the greatest technological achievement in human history: putting a man on the moon. We did create NASA, but its goal was not the vague and distracting mandate to "promote innovation", but to solve a specific set of problems, problems so hard that they demanded a huge amount of innovation."
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"Trend to Watch: Globalization Under Fire" . "This trend is categorized as decelerating." . Como é que as empresas portuguesas podem aproveitar esta janela de oportunidade?
Palavras para quê... vamos todos apanhar pela medida grande. . Olhem bem para os números!!! . Fonte. Artigo no Público e já agora a opinião de Camilo Lourenço.
Esta manhã, pelas 8h30, no final da via rápida entre Estarreja e Oliveira de Azeméis, na zona de Ul, vejo a uns 100 metros uma ave na estrada com um bico fora do comum.
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Reduzo a velocidade e vou aproximando-me... ao passar por ele tenho a oportunidade de apreciar as suas costas verdes e a mancha vermelha na cabeça... um pica-pau.
Além do euro pôr a circular outras moedas: . "California's innovative IOU proposal represents a way of alleviating the state's fiscal crisis, not exacerbating it. While it might appear that the new law seems merely to allow California to deficit spend just like the Federal Government - in actuality, the effect is far more profound than that. Allowing the IOUs to become an acceptable payment method for state taxes, instantly imparts value to them - in effect, what you have is a state of the union creating a parallel currency right under the noses of the Treasury, alleviating its fiscal straitjacket in the process. So why are so objections being raised? The confusion seems to arise because of a mistaken understanding of the nature of modern money. Modern money has no intrinsic value in the absence of state sanction. In the words of economist Abba Lerner:
The modern state can make anything it chooses generally acceptable as money…It is true that a simple declaration that such and such is money will not do, even if backed by the most convincing constitutional evidence of the state’s absolute sovereignty.But if the state is willing to accept the proposed money in payment of taxes and other obligations to itself the trick is done.
The modern state, then, imposes and enforces a tax liability on its citizens and chooses that which is necessary to pay taxes. The unit of account has no real value if not ultimately sanctioned by use from the State. By extension, the state is never revenue constrained because it alone determines what is money. The tax is what gives the currency its value insofar as it functions to create the notional demand for federal expenditures of fiat money, not to raise revenue per se. Value has been given to the money by requiring it to be used to fulfill a tax obligation, but the money is already in existence, not “created” by the revenue.
It is in this context that one has to look at the California IOU proposal. It is important to note that the IOU would not replace the dollar, but operate in parallel to extinguish state liabilities. And if the IOU becomes functionally like a currency, then California’s bankruptcy problems are over." . Estão já a imaginar serem obrigados a receber o salário em partes, uma parte em euros e outra parte (10%? 20%?) em xxx? . Já esteve bem mais longe. . Trecho daqui.
No DE de hoje: "Para isso, promete "um programa Inov só para as exportações", que vai permitir formar jovens licenciados "para vender nas feiras internacionais". . Aqui.
No Diário Económico de hoje no artigo "Elogio da pobreza" de João Vieira da Cunha pode ler-se: . "A ausência de apoios foi importante para os primeiros sucessos da Lotus. ... A escassez de dinheiro obrigou também a empresa a especializar-se no ‘design' de chassis e suspensões, recorrendo aos motores desenvolvidos por outros construtores. A Lotus foi empurrada para um nicho onde é, ainda hoje, líder mundial. Casos como o da Lotus e o da Virgin, mostram que as políticas de financiamento fazem mais parte do problema do que parte da solução. É mais importante apresentar desafios e oportunidades aos futuros empreendedores do que atirar-lhes com dinheiro." . O desenvolvimento, a evolução de uma organização, apesar da escassez de dinheiro, das restrições e constrangimentos levam à tal actuação biológica "nature evolves away from constraints, not toward goals" .
"The consumer is our boss, and we have to win with her at two moments of truth day in and day out."
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"The most essential component to game-changing innovation is deeply understanding your consumer at both the rational and the emotional levels.
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You must get an appreciation for who they are, how they live, and - yes, of course - how your product can best improve their lives."
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"Who is your WHO?"
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"For example, the team preparing for the launch in the United States of the heartburn medication Prilosec as an over-the-counter product created a life-sized cardboard cutout of a consumer they named Joanne. She represented their most important WHO, or consumer. In order to keep Joanne front and center, the team put the cutout of Joanne in a chair in their conference room. Often during meetings, to cut through the debates and focus only on those innovations that would meaningfully impact her life, they turn to her and ask, "What would Joanne think?"
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E em relação à sua empresa? Quer seja B2B ou B2C, quem são os clientes-alvo?
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Para quem trabalham? Quem querem servir?
Trecho retirado de "Game-Changer" de A. Lafley e Ram Charan.
"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. . "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."
" I can't believe it. That is why you fail."
"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." "
"Debt may have ended up as a problem, but it always starts out as a solution."