.
De certeza uma felosa, talvez uma Phylloscopus collybita... mas as manchas brancas no painel secundário...
.
De qualquer forma, um gosto para os olhos.
.
Foto roubada a este artista.
"Isto eu sei sobre o desporto, o atleta que está num pico de forma de campeão tem um lugar calmo, um local de repouso, no interior de si, e é daí que vem a sua acção. Se ele estiver todo virado para a acção, não vai ter o nível de desempenho adequado."Assim que ouvi isto fiz logo a ponte para um texto de Max McKeown retirado de "The Strategy Book":
"Strategy is about out-thinking your competition. It’s about vision first and planning second. That’s why it’s so important that you think before you plan. And that the thinking part of what you do is given a priority. Strategists who don’t take time to think are just planners.As empresas bem sucedidas conseguem ter tempo para pensar, para planear e para actuar.
...
if you start the planning before thinking, you can end up with the wrong solution to the right problem. Or perhaps the right solution to the wrong problem. Or the least imaginative solution to a really important problem. You might miss out on all the creative ways you could have grabbed the very biggest opportunities. Your objective should be to make sure that imaginative, open, playful, passionate thinking happens before the serious work of planning begins. That's what strategy is about - thinking strategically.
...
Strategy is about the shortest route between means and ends. It’s either about out-thinking the competition – or – even better – about finding new, even greater opportunities. Opportunities the competition hasn’t found yet. Or opportunities the competition doesn’t understand because it has done the kind of thinking that you have.
.
There are always better ways of doing anything. There are always shorter routes for getting from where you are to where you want to be. ... There are forever methods, relationships and ideas just waiting to be discovered, and these can only be discovered by creating room - slack - for thinking."
"Awareness is a state in which the brain focuses lightly on an impasse. In the awareness state, you want to put the problem on the stage, but ensure it takes up as little space as possible so that other actors can get on. To minimize activation of the prefrontal cortex, don’t focus too hard, quiet the mind of other thoughts, and simplify the problem as much as possible. A good way to simplify a problem is to describe it in as few words as possible.E o ponto:
...
In the reflection phase, you hold the impasse in mind, but reflect on your thinking processes, rather than on the content of thoughts.
...
The objective is to see your impasse from a high level, not to get detailed. This activates right hemisphere regions that are important for insight, and allows loose connections to form. You also want to activate the easy, unfocused mental state that occurs as you drift awake in the morning, when ideas dreamily flow into mind.
.
The insight stage is fascinating. At the moment of insight, there is a burst of gamma band brain waves. These are the fastest brain waves, representing a group of neurons firing in unison, forty times a second. The gamma frequency signifies brain regions communicating with one another."
"Our brains love an insight. Mostly it’s about getting the prefrontal cortex out of the way, and allowing deeper signals to be heard."
"O leitor imagine-se proprietário de uma empresa que decide ir a uma feira do setor em Shangai mostrar os seus produtos. Pense que, na mostra, tem 3000 expositores de uma dezena de países a ombrear consigo (Moi ici: Lembrei-me logo deste relato da feira de Milão). Convenhamos que, estando num evento de dimensão e importância grande como é (foi) o "Furniture China 2012", pelo menos um friozinho na barriga o há de apoquentar, quando chega a hora de saber se algum dos produtos que levou à feira entusiasmou o júri. Por mais confiante que esteja, é preciso contar com a fortíssima concorrência....
O leitor imagine agora que um dos seus produtos sai vencedor numa das categorias a concurso. O esforço de anos, as dificuldades quotidianas que foi obrigado a ultrapassar, as apostas que resultaram da estratégia definida, o trabalho dos seus colaboradores, tudo acaba de ser reconhecido. O prémio é recompensador, no mínimo. O prémio é a prova de que vale a pena lutar, desde que a alma não seja pequena."
"Claro: o sucesso da empresa de Paredes (conhecida como "o alfaite de cadeiras do Mundo", por ter um serviço capaz de responder às necessidades específicas de cada cliente, como o alfaite faz com os fatos) não é fruto do acaso. É fruto da flexibilidade na produção proporcionada pelo know-how, pela tecnologia e pela organização. Quer dizer: é resultado de uma estratégia com cabeça, tronco e membros."Nunca esquecer que enquanto as "fenabeles" lutam, sonham, queimam pestanas, têm acidentes, ganham prémios, dão emprego, co-criam valor, espalham bosta no terreno, os gurus de "Lesboa" pensam isto:
"Cerca de duas mil empresas ligadas ao sector da construção entraram em falência desde Janeiro deste ano, revela hoje a FEPICOP"Basta ler "Overstimulated"
Por que será que a maioria dos despedimentos que se fazem actualmente na Europa Ocidental acontece? Qual a sua razão de ser? Qual a sua motivação?
"A ideia principal é encarecer de tal ordem os despedimentos que não compense às empresas [fazê-lo]"
"We are undergoing a creative rather than an industrial revolution," he said.A grande revolução vai ser no dia-a-dia, não em coisas pomposas e espampanantes mas naquilo em que contactamos:
.
"It is not replacing large scale manufacturing but people can go quickly from an idea to realised design so it means that people are thinking differently,"
...
"Regular people are designing extraordinary things and some may even be able to build a company around it,"
"Je casse une assiette aujourd’hui. Je prends ma voiture pour aller chez Ikea en acheter une autre (construit en Chine). Je casse une assiette demain. Je vais chercher sur Internet le fichier numérique « assiette », puis je demande à mon imprimante 3D de m’en créer une nouvelle sous mes yeux ébahis.O que poucos falam é sobre a influência que tudo isto vai ter sobre a forma como os Estados se financiam com impostos sobre as transacções... posso trocar as minhas peças com as peças dos meus vizinhos:
Et là où ça devient encore plus intéressant c’est quand l’imprimante tout comme le fichier sont libres, m’assurant alors que j’aurais une grande variétés de fichiers « assiette » à télécharger et que je pourrais même les modifier à ma guise avant de les imprimer :)"
"Les consommateurs auront peu de difficultés à s’adapter à cette nouvelle ère de meilleurs produits rapidement livrés et créés près de chez eux. Les gouvernements pourraient toutefois commencer par résister au mouvement. Leur instinct est de protéger les industries et les entreprises qui existent déjà plutôt que de promouvoir les nouvelles qui les détruiront. Ils attirent les anciennes usines avec des subventions et stigmatisent les patrons qui voudraient délocaliser. Ils dépensent des milliards dans de nouvelles technologies qui, à leur avis, prévaudront dans l’avenir. Et ils s’accrochent à la croyance romantique que la fabrication est supérieure aux services, sans prendre en compte la finance.Trechos retirados de "La troisième révolution industrielle est en marche et nous pouvons tous y participer"
... Les gouvernements ont rarement choisi les vainqueurs, et ils vont probablement mettre du temps à voir ces légions d’entrepreneurs et de bricoleurs qui s’échangent des plans en ligne, les transforment en produits chez eux et les vendent à l’échelle mondiale depuis un garage."
"O "alfaiate de bicicletas" de Ílhavo já tem encomendas do estrangeiro" (Obrigado André pela chamada de atenção)Ao ler este artigo, ao perceber que o Dinis Ramos é designer, lembrei-me logo de "Tão novos e já tão velhos".
"Todas as peças e componentes das bicicletas que saem da oficina caseira de Noca Ramos, instalada na garagem da casa dos pais, são escolhidas a dedo.Arte, originalidade, autenticidade, nicho, ... um modelo longe da escala e volume, longe do século XX e de Magnitogorsk. E aqui entra um outro artigo "Our Obsession with Scale is Failing Us", sobre o quão obsoleto está o modelo que herdámos do século XX. Como escreveu Seth Godin, we are all weird, a massa está a encolher e a dar lugar a uma explosão de diversidade:
...
Depois de ter as peças todas, Noca Ramos "enclausura-se" na oficina para dar corpo às suas bicicletas, que, quando completas, são absolutamente originais. Até as tintas são criadas por adição gota a gota, de modo a atingirem uma tonalidade irrepetível. E o toque personalizado lá está à vista, tanto na cor escolhida, como nos pormenores decorativos acrescentados. "Podem dizer respeito a uma música de que a pessoa gosta muito, a algo que a marcou na vida", especifica o designer. A originalidade não se fica pelas bicicletas. É também a imagem de marca da linha de t-shirts que o designer criou a pensar na indumentária dos ciclistas - e já há muitos vestidos com elas pelo mundo fora - e que lhe permitem materializar, no tecido, outra paixão: o desenho.
...
Nestes três anos, produziu apenas uma dezena, e não parece muito interessado em aumentar esse número. "Dificilmente. Para isso, teria de contratar outras pessoas e remeter-me apenas a um papel de coordenador, e não é isso que quero", confessa. Ao mesmo tempo, sublinha que a verdadeira essência do seu trabalho está na ligação pessoal que consegue estabelecer com cada projecto."
"size is not the advantage it once was, because the nature of scale itself has changed.Quando escrevemos e falamos de David vs Golias:
...
In the industrial era and even the early web era, size was central to scale.
...
The new reality is this: The ability to scale is no longer a direct function of size.
...
We’re at an inflection point where work and value creation can reach “scale” without having to be done by a large, single firm. We can see today that Social is more than tools, information-enabled efficiency, products, services, or processes.
...
Today, value creation can happen through the organizing and connecting individuals together."
"Giants have a view of the world that often makes new markets “too small” to pursue. When we see scale as the thing they must do all by ourselves, then only “big” opportunities are worth investing in. Scale, in the traditional view, means that what they produce and how they function has to be about efficiency, productivity and being bigger than the other guy — because that is, above all, the source of profits. And for sure, it means they skip right past $50M or $100M or even $500M opportunities because they are not “big enough” to work on.Reparem nesta poesia tão fora da moda que domina os nossos media e os modelos mentais das "elites":
And it is this thinking — this mindset — that is the central reason so many industries (automotive, financial, health care, and even education) and their companies are failing all around us today. It’s not that our economy is stalled, but that our thinking has stalled. (Moi ici: E não esquecer MFL e o avatar e a sua fixação obsoleta na volume)
"Profits are not going to be a function of size. It’s not enough to get big, get efficient, and control the supply chain. It might have made sense in the 20th century, and might still be a winning combination for McDonalds and Exxon, but there are other options available to us if we consider what scale means.Ainda na mesma onda este interessante artigo "Jovens com o futuro nas mãos".
Many organizations that once dominated now struggle to meet the rapidly changing demands of a volatile, global marketplace. And the issue isn’t stupidity, or lack of urgency. No. It’s that Giants are systematically eliminating options that they need to actually embrace."
"Num mercado de trabalho cada vez mais saturado de doutores e engenheiros, os velhos ofícios como a costura e a carpintaria renovam-se pelas mãos de jovens licenciados.
...
«Desde que comecei a restaurar e a criar peças, só estive um mês sem trabalho e isso foi logo no início. Agora tenho sempre imenso para fazer».
...
«Já considerei arranjar alguém por umas horas para me ajudar porque tenho vários trabalhos a acontecer ao mesmo tempo», admite Rita, (Moi ici: Outro artigo sobre a Rita e o seu blogue) firme em manter a produção a bom ritmo. «Não posso recusar trabalhos nem quero que as pessoas percam o entusiasmo entre o primeiro contacto e a entrega».
...
«A partir do momento em que comecei a receber o feedback de desconhecidos, muitas vezes para dizerem apenas que viram o blogue e gostaram do aspecto dos pratos, comecei a questionar o meu caminho». (Moi ici: Outra vez o poder da internet e das redes sociais para tornar a geografia irrelevante)
...
Do desacompanhamento à escolha de uma licenciatura estrangulada pela falta de saídas profissionais, Dina, hoje com 34 anos, recorda apenas três meses de experiência na área. É por isso sem reservas que se entrega ao negócio da família: «Não me atrapalha nada pôr as mãos na massa porque nada disso apaga o que aprendi no curso. A diferença é que agora tenho a oportunidade de trabalhar em actividades que sempre encarei como hobby».
...
Licenciada em Direito, com especialização no ramo administrativo e alfandegário, a aprendiz de costureira troca sem hesitações o destino no meio judicial pelas linhas do pronto-a-vestir.
...
Aos 25 anos, esta técnica de qualidade ambiental, desde a infância sugestionada para a área da saúde, assume em pleno a entrega ao circuito da estética. «Trabalho como maquilhadora profissional há três anos e não tenho dúvidas de que estou melhor assim do que se tivesse continuado na minha área». A certeza, alimentada pelo encerramento de uma série de laboratórios – habitat natural da sua formação académica – reforça-se nas respostas do consumo.
.
Além de manter uma clientela fiel nas Caldas da Rainha, a cidade de todos os dias, não olha a geografias na hora de arregaçar as mangas e deitar as mãos aos pincéis, pós e cremes de embelezamento.
.
«Percebi que tinha mercado, resolvi investir em formações e acho que o retorno compensa bastante. Já cheguei mesmo a ter situações em que passei o trabalho para uma colega por não ter hipótese de o fazer»."
"Las citas de Barcelona y Oporto se enmarcan en un contexto de crisis económica, pero a su vez, cuentan a su favor con el retorno de la producción en proximidad en la cuenca euromediterránea."Segundo os números do IEFP o têxtil é o único sector que nos últimos 12 meses tem um saldo positivo na criação de emprego. E, no entanto, nem uma palavra, nem uma tentativa de explicar o fenómeno...
"The “strategy as addition” mentality is persistent, despite it’s lack of effectiveness. It persists because the reality of strategy is much harder to engage with. At its core, strategy is about choice. Strategic planning is about looking at trends in the environment, as well as past results, and making deliberate choices about what activities to begin, what activities to continue, and what activities must be ceased. These choices are hard to make. No one wants to stare down a fork in the road at two unknown paths and be forced to choose. No one wants to be the one blamed for making the wrong choice.Para uns a manutenção do status-quo traduz-se numa previsão de mais vendas, porque sim (por exemplo, o Sporting Clube de Portugal prevê um aumento das receitas em 40% durante esta época), para outros traduz-se no aumento continuado de impostos. Quando os contribuintes líquidos falirem ...
.
But not choosing is a choice – it’s a choice for the status quo. It’s a choice that says, even though the environment has changed, we choose to pursue the same activities but set our sales goals a little higher. That choice may be a comfortable one to make, but it’s outcome is as unknown as the other possible paths.
.
Strategy as choice is uncomfortable – which is probably why discomfort is the key signal that you and your team are truly engaged in strategic planning."
"To create a compelling value proposition (Moi ici: A proposta de valor é fundamental, é o que uma empresa comunica, promete aos clientes. Que experiência vão viver se optarem pela sua oferta), you have to know your three C's: competencies, customers, and competitors.Costumo escrever aqui no blogue, e defender nas empresas, que tudo começa pela identificação dos clientes-alvo. Tudo começa por identificar para quem vamos trabalhar.
Know Your Competencies.
The first step in creating a value proposition is knowing what you are good at (and what you are not). These core competencies serve as the building blocks for determining how your business creates value. What will you provide customers that they cannot get today, and how can you provide it in a way that uniquely differentiates your business?
.
These competencies are the foundation of your value proposition, and you should consistently work to further develop and improve them to maintain a compelling offering."
"A redução das horas trabalhadas e o custo de indemnizações por despedimento (que entram nos custos não-salariais) podem ajudar a explicar a subida expressiva neste segundo trimestre."Não é por nada mas esta foi a realidade "Mais 74% de despedimentos colectivos até Agosto" e esta é a realidade:
"Salários baixam pela 1.ª vez em termos absolutos em 2012"Não era interessante termos um jornalismo que, antes de nos querer iludir, por exemplo com o seu feeling de que o melhor para todos era sairmos do euro, estudasse o que recebe e o descodificasse, para que o cidadão comum não se sinta perdido?
"Em 2011, o custo médio por hora de trabalho em Portugal subiu 10 cêntimos, atingindo 12,10 euros. Na Zona Euro subiu 70 cêntimos, para 27,60 euros."Este número nunca devia ser apresentado sozinho, devia ser apresentado a par de um gráfico que compara o peso dos salários no PIB.
"Leading firms and theorists are therefore radically rethinking business strategy. Instead of an internal focus on configuring the firm’s own value chain, firms are organizing from an outside-in mind-set that starts with the customer, and looks to deliver creatively on market opportunities, whatever they happen to be, however they will be delivered, and whoever will deliver them. Profits are seen as the consequence of providing value to customers, not the goal of the firm."...
"An outside-in orientation that maximizes customer value however requires an agile organization to implement it. Steadily delivering additional value to customers, rather than just fine-tuning the value chain for the existing portfolio of products and services, requires the organization-wide capability to deal with unexpected shifts in the marketplace. Solving customer problems means being able to adjust what the firm produces, what it sells, how it sells it and even who sells it."
"An agile enterprise discovers profitable opportunities--new market spaces or gaps in existing market spaces--by repeatedly considering:...
1.Shifts in product or service needs, customer tastes, technology, socioeconomic factors, and cultural mores.
2.Competitors' current and future strategic positions.
3.The organization's internal competencies.
4.Competencies it might gain through access to partners, collaborators, or mergers and acquisitions."
"Enterprises demonstrate strategic agility in four major ways:Até que ponto a nossa dificuldade cultural em obedecer a regras rígidas, a nossa tendência para não seguir processos organizacionais, o nosso tradicional desenrascanço à McGuyver, pode ser aproveitado para esta realidade nova?
1.They continuously scan their environment to identify both threats to existing positions and opportunities to forge new positions.
2.They regularly engage in strategic experiments by implementing small-scale strategic initiatives to challenge internal or external work environments to gain experience with emerging technologies, work practices, product or service concepts, customer segments, or product markets.
3.They devise adaptive business architectures so that their competitive assets (as well as those of partners) can be realigned quickly--shutting down activities, commencing new activities, or shifting resources among activities.
4.They learn to radically renew the competencies that characterize their competitive nature."
"If you are selling tomorrow, be very careful not to pitch people who are only interested in buying things that are about today. It's virtually impossible to sell financial planning or safety or the long-term impacts of the environment to a consumer or a voter who is relentlessly focused on what might be fun right now.E se há uma tendência forte nas últimas décadas, no nosso país e no resto do mundo, é a ascenção ao poder do curto-prazismo.
.
Before a marketer or organization can sell something that works in the future, she must sell the market on the very notion that the future matters. The cultural schism is deep, and it's not clear that simple marketing techniques are going to do much to change it."
"E para quem? É sobretudo nesta última questão que os empresários e o Governo se têm de focar quando pensam na internacionalização. Tem de haver uma viragem para a economia da procura, alerta o economista Augusto Mateus."Basta pesquisar "ecossistema da procura".
"Para Augusto Mateus é mais importante saber o “como” fazer do que o “onde” apostar. E, no “como”, a resposta é simples: devem-se “aglomerar esforços, dar prioridade às respostas às necessidades dos consumidores e perceber quem vai poder comprar os nossos bens”, bem como “consolidar e diversificar mercados, produtos e modelos de negócio”.Basta pesquisar "clientes-alvo".
"All of this adds up to the Attacker’s Dilemma. And that is: unless you bring a major performance improvement, there is no point in directly attacking a strong incumbent in their area of strength.
.
You need to find a niche that isn’t being served. You need to find area where you can build a learning advantage. The actions you take when you are entering a market are quite different from those that you take when you are building one."
"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'.
...
"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."
"
"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." "