"Portuguesa Fly London recebe prémio para marca do ano em Inglaterra"
Tanta coisa boa a correr neste país mas longe de Lesboa, da corte, das universidades, dos intelectuais e das elites.
"Portuguesa Fly London recebe prémio para marca do ano em Inglaterra"
"Em nome do patriarca da família. Viriato Rocha, a unidade nortenha nasceu ainda como Móveis Viriato, em 1952, talhada para o mobiliário doméstico, a partir de uma pequena marcenaria onde o fundador trabalhara. Em meados da década de oitenta, porém, a oportunidade de mobilar um hotel francês serviu de gatilho para que a marca passasse a apontar baterias ao mercado hoteleiro, e se transformasse em Viriato Hotel Concept. Hoje exclusivamente dedicada a este segmento. a empresa é liderada pelos filhos e netos de Viriato Rocha, que continua a tomar o pulso ao negócio. diariamente, na fábrica."Ontem à noite, depois de ter ido ver um jogo de andebol, cheguei a casa e apanhei um programa na televisão onde o Jamie Oliver tentava agradar, com comida, uma família italiana em Itália. A certa altura apanhei-o a dizer algo como:
"Estes fornecedores italianos, não fazem muitas coisas, especializam-se em um ou dois tipos de produtos e tentam ser os melhores" (Moi ici: Julgo que falava de fabricantes de mozarella"Em qualquer sector de actividade, para subir na escala de valor, há que abraçar a especialização... e isto é muito difícil de fazer em tempos de bonança, porque significa ficar mais pequeno, ter uma empresa mais pequena... e ficar com uma empresa mais pequena quando todos crescem (em tempos de bonança) é sinónimo de má gestão ou burrice. Estão a imaginar o vizinho a dizer "Ui! Então a maré está a subir, todos os barcos sobem e o dele afunda-se!?!? Deve ser muito burrinho!!!
"A balança de bens e serviços com o exterior registou um excedente de 111 milhões de euros no ano passado, o que compara com um défice de 6,5 mil milhões de euros em 2011, segundo dados ontem divulgados pelo Banco de Portugal (BdP).Claro que vou ter de esperar muito e ainda mais muito.
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De acordo com os números do banco central, o défice da balança de bens caiu perto de 40% em 2012, passando de 14,2 mil milhões em 2011 para 8,6 mil milhões de euros. Ou seja, registou-se uma melhoria de 5,6 mil milhões de euros. Um valor que se explica pela subida das exportações e queda das importações (fruto da forte contracção interna ao nível do consumo e do investimento). O défice que persistiu nos bens foi, segundo o BdP, compensado pela venda de serviços. Apesar de as exportações de serviços terem sofrido uma ligeira descida de 0,3%, quedando-se pelos 19 mil milhões, as importações caíram ainda mais, cerca de 9%, para os 10,4 mil milhões (dando assim um excedente de perto de 8,7 mil milhões)."
"O indicador do Banco de Portugal (BdP) para a actividade da economia portuguesa caiu 1,4%, em Janeiro, registando a 23ª contracção mensal consecutiva. Trata-se da menor deterioração desde Junho de 2011, numa série que vem a contrair desde Março do mesmo ano."
"É o mercado no seu melhor."Espero sinceramente que sim, que seja o mercado a funcionar; contudo, no mundo da construção automóvel há tanta política e jogos com os governos que tento sempre ter dupla precaução, basta recordar as histórias do Sr. Marchionne.
"A PSA Mangualde, que fabrica automóveis da Citroën e Peugeot, vai criar um terceiro turno para 300 novos trabalhadores. Um turno que será financiada por cerca de meio milhão de euros do Quadro de Referência Estratégico Nacional (QREN)."Sinceramente, sem agenda nenhuma, sem nada contra a PSA, não sei se esses 500 milhões aplicados em PMEs não dariam mais postos de trabalho e, disso tenho a certeza, mais incorporação de valor potencial nacional.
"Entre as plantações preferidas pelos jovens agricultores, desde logo assumiram lugar de destaque os pequenos frutos – kiwis, mirtilos, morangos, amoras, framboesas e groselhas – seguidos das plantas medicinais e aromáticas e dos cogumelos.Para lá do dia-a-dia e da reactividade, é fundamental ter pensamento estratégico e pensar no depois de amanhã, e pensar em vantagens competitivas, e pensar em diferenciação, e pensar em nichos, e pensar em valor acrescentado potencial.
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No caso dos pequenos frutos, o engenheiro agrónomo destaca o facto de poderem ser “rentabilizados com áreas muito pequenas, o que se adapta quer à estrutura do minifúndio, quer ao valor do investimento” dominantes no país. (Moi ici: Recordar "Estratégia a sério na agricultura, ou make my day!")
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Portugal tem, na cultura destes frutos, “uma vantagem competitiva muito forte”, designadamente no Algarve e no sudoeste alentejano: devido ao clima, consegue-se aqui “uma precocidade na produção que cria uma mais-valia no mercado, pois, dependendo das espécies, podem produzir durante o inverno ou a primavera, sem ser necessário aquecer como acontece na maioria da Europa”, explica. (Moi ici: Recordar "Pensamento estratégico" e "Agricultura com futuro")
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Apesar de a atual produção de pequenos frutos em Portugal ser ainda modesta, o engenheiro agrónomo nota que tem já algum significado em valor, devido ao preço elevado praticado ao consumidor.
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Outra “grande vantagem” do negócio dos pequenos frutos é estarem “em linha com o novo posicionamento dos consumidores na alimentação”: são frutos muito ricos em antioxidantes, pelo que podem ser consumidos em quantidade com benefícios para a saúde." (Moi ici: Recordar "Breakaway brands")
"The notion of cocreating value refers to assisting customers in co-constructing and engaging in superior experiences. Each value network partner brings their own unique resource access and accommodation into that process
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When customers are viewed as an integral part of value creation, the role of the firm becomes that of a facilitator, supporter, and co-constructor of value rather than a supplier of value
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In turn, the strategic focus of the firm shifts toward understanding how it can better assist individual customers to get more out of its direct service activities and/or service platforms so that their daily routines, processes, and experiences are improved in a meaningful way
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Overall, firms prioritize valuable interaction experiences and outcomes of reciprocal resource integration efforts, rather than focusing on products per se, thereby forming the basis for successful future strategies.
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From an S-D logic perspective, strategy is about making choices about how best to facilitate and enhance value cocreation with network partners such as customers for mutual and long-term betterment."
"Poupar dinheiro aos pais, sem tirar prazer aos filhos, é o objectivo desta empresa que aluga brinquedos e aposta no conceito do consumo partilhado
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a adesão à oferta do Club do Brinquedo, reconhecem as empreendedoras, pressupõe "uma mudança de paradigma: "passar do possuir para o usar"
"59% of the fish labeled “tuna” sold at restaurants and grocery stores in the US is not tuna.
Sushi restaurants were far more likely to mislabel their fish than grocery stores or other restaurants."
"The key to the strategy mindset is to view business life as not entirely random; stochastic but not random. While it may be absolutely necessary to revisit and revise choices more often than convenient, the assumption holds that effortful, determined, revisable strategy is better than simply letting happen whatever will happen.Quando penso no exercício de formulação de uma estratégia, percorre-me sempre um sentimento de contradição; por um lado, digo e acredito que não se pode prever o futuro, mas por outro ajo como se tal fosse possível.
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By far the easiest thing to do is to see the future as so unpredictable and uncertain that you should keep all your options open and avoid choice-making entirely. The irony, of course, is that not choosing is every bit as much a choice, and every bit as impactful, as choosing to choose."
"‘It’s so damn complex. If you ever think you have the solution to this, you’re wrong and you’re dangerous.’"Mas por outro, sei que temos de fazer algo e não esperar que aconteça o que tem de acontecer. É um pouco a mensagem do Eclesiastes, vaidade, é tudo vaidade, só somos humanos, mas temos de nos levantar e trabalhar para criar algo de melhor. Sim, é verdade:
“The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.”Em acções de formação sobre a formulação de estratégias costumo forçar e reforçar este ponto: só somos humanos!!!
"In strategy, helpful practice means setting out your logic about a choice in advance (Moi ici: Um mapa da estratégia e um conjunto de iniciativas, de projectos de transformação) — e.g., I think consumers will react in this way, competitors will react that way, we will be able to deliver this and we achieve this outcome (Moi ici: Ainda ontem, durante uma apresentação foquei este ponto; as iniciativas são projectos e os projectos são actividades que acabam, que se fazem e ponto. Contudo, o nosso propósito não é executar as actividades e fechar as iniciativas, o nosso propósito é cumprir as metas, como tão bem se escreve aqui) — and then watching what actually happens against this predicted logic. (Moi ici: As metas associadas aos indicadores do balanced scorecard) This is the only way you will learn; the only way you will figure out whether your logic was entirely sound or flawed in some way.Ao fechar, ao tentar encontrar uma frase que resumisse o que sinto acabei por voltar ao texto de Roger Martin:
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And when I say setting out your logic, I mean actually writing it down in advance, not just thinking it through. That is important because of our human capacity for ex-post rationalizing absolutely anything and everything. If you don't write down in advance what your logic was, you will find that you will convince yourself that everything worked out the way you thought it would — and you will learn nothing."
"Strategy is part art and part science; a heuristic, not an algorithm."
"A central implication of S-D logic is that the notion of superior value cocreation replaces the more prevalent one of superior value provision as the cornerstone of business strategy. Therefore, from an S-D logic perspective, the capabilities that facilitate and enhance value cocreation processes are strategic capabilities central to an organization’s competitive advantage.
(Moi ici: Cada vez gosto mais deste esquema que adaptei de um artigo de Gronroos. É fundamental para todas as empresas, e outro tipo de organizações, que não podem ou não querem competir com o low-cost, perceber a sua mensagem. Quando um fornecedor se concentra nos clientes que procuram e valorizam a experiência e os resultados que conseguem atingir com a interacção, acontece magia. O low-cost vai para o outro extremo, corta as possibilidades de interacção. Interessante como faz sentido para tantas empresas do mercado interno no sector dos não-transaccionáveis, neste esforço de adaptação, de recalibração para uma nova realidade.)
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We interpret an S-D orientation as a cocreation capability, resulting from a firm’s individuated, relational, ethical, empowered, developmental, and concerted interaction capabilities.
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The first premise is that market actors interact and collaborate for the capabilities of the other party that renders service, thereby making a distinction between goods and services redundant (FP1). (Moi ici: Descodificar FPx aqui) The actual service can be rendered either directly through a firm’s relieving activities or indirectly through enabling service platforms (FP3) such as goods or Internet websites. According to these
premises, a firm’s goods are valuable and relevant resources to the degree that they can be used as inputs to lever the customer’s own value creation processes and experiences. (Moi ici: As ofertas das empresas são recursos usados pelos clientes para atingir um determinado objectivo) Ultimately, service
defines all economies (FP5) but this view might be masked by service intermediaries such as goods, money, or institutions (FP2).
Service-based logic further highlights that value is not what is inherent in or added to a product, but what customers get out of a product. Accordingly, value cannot be distributed or delivered by firms (FP7). Rather, firms facilitate the actualization and determination of value that network partners derive from their experiences; this is also referred to as value-in-context (FP10). Value cocreation requires all network partners (Moi ici: O que chamo de ecossistema da procura) to interact with, and integrate, resources (FP9) to achieve mutual betterment.
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creating value in concert with - rather than for - customers within a relational context (FP8), indicates the operant and cocreative nature of network partners (FP6) as active resources in value creation processes. Finally, a firm’s own and accessible operant resources (e.g., employee competencies, network service capabilities), rather than operand resources (e.g., goods, materials), play a central role for competitive success (FP4)."
"Every version you add must fit with your overarching brand message and competitive strengths. Conversely, versions that weaken your brand message must be pruned even if they are profitable."
"Goodyear : l'incroyable courrier du PDG de Titan à Montebourg"
"Companies are becoming more focused. (Moi ici: Recordar o que se tem escrito por aqui nos últimos tempos. E não esquecer que o futuro é subir na escala de valor, ou seja, serviços cada vez mais específicos)...the advantage held by companies that do only a few things in the market but do them exceptionally well. They are bringing all their products and services in line with their market strategy and core capabilities. This means fewer priorities, more longterm investments, and an emphasis on making the most of their operational, HR, IT, marketing and sales, and other resources.Functional leaders are now expected to play a stronger role at the heart of strategic decision making; they are not just operators of a service bureau, but critical enablers of the capabilities that set a particular company apart from its competitors.(Moi ici: A ligação de pesoas ou funções e estratégia ou vantagens competitivas)...Instead of balancing services among all business units equally, or striving to be “best in class” in every detail, you can focus on helping your functional organization become coherent and “fit for purpose.” (Moi ici: A excelência não é uma boa política, a excelência tudo é um desperdício. As empresas têm é de ser excelentes no que está alinhado para a a execução da estratégia)...The first step is to articulate your functional agenda—the priorities, roles, and activities needed to support your company’s overall strategic mission....In every successful company, the value proposition is closely linked to the company’s most critical capabilities: the things it has learned, over time, to do particularly well....Differentiating capabilities provide a company with the distinctive competitive advantage needed to outperform. (Moi ici: Aquelas que dão margens interessantes, aquelas que põem a empresa longe do granel da molhada do preço, associadas a processos nucleares)...Competitive necessities are the “table stakes” that enable a company to compete in its industry. (Moi ici: Aquelas que funcionam como o bilhete para aceder à arena competitiva, associadas a processos contexto)Talvez continue...
...They are essential to survival and success, but they can often be managed for cost and efficiency, rather than to perform at a worldclass level, or even at the same level as competitors. (Moi ici: Como sempre defendemos por aqui e para escândalo dos partidários da excelência em todo o lado)
.Basic business capabilities are those needed to keep the company running. These services—everything from payroll to employee benefits to basic computing needs— remain the responsibility of the functions. They are critical but non-differentiating. They should be tightly controlled for efficiency, and often automated, outsourced, or relegated to low-cost shared services, thus freeing up resources that functional leaders can redirect to differentiating capabilities. (Moi ici: Como referi no relato desta descoberta)Different companies deploy the same capabilities in different ways, depending on the strategic value proposition....As a functional leader, you must learn to balance resources among these three types of capabilities.Business capabilities are very costly to build and maintain, and (Moi ici: Segue-se o sumo do sumo) many functions have gotten used to spending more on competitive necessities and basic business capabilities than they need to. Differentiating capabilities get shortchanged as a result, and the company loses ground.Being best in class in every process or activity within a given function simply isn’t possible, no matter how professionally satisfying; no function has the funds or organizational stamina to be excellent at everything.Instead, you need a clear sense of which category each activity falls into. There must be some activities where being merely adequate is appropriate, where “good enough” is actually good enough."
"O país “aguenta tudo”, menos o poder imprudente, diz cardeal de Lisboa"Quem é que andou de braço com o poder na última década e meia, enquanto esse mesmo poder mergulhava numa orgia despesista, enquanto esse mesmo poder se endividava para além do prudente?
"the importance of customer experience in retail. In IMS Retail University we make the case very bluntly: "Differentiate or die." If it only comes down to selling at lowest price, game over. Online and the largest retailers win the price battle, and Amazon wows consumers with both service and price. So, how do you create and sustain experience consumers will value? Retailers would do well to borrow from the playbook of Disney who understands a high quality experience is all about "theater" … and requires a blend of Stage + Actors + Script.BTW, ao ouvir "Buyology" lembrei-me logo do futuro do retalho físico e da batota, ao pensar nas armas que o retalho físico pode usar para estimular a experiência sensorial da compra: luz, toque, cheiro; som, ... só que o retalho físico normalmente prepara a experiência de compra como o Aranha relata num comentário a este postal.
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If retail is only about selling commodities at a price, then no … retail probably does not have to become theater.
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Today's consumers can typically find a better deal online. To survive and thrive, retail stores must create some "theater" in order to create experiences where consumers are entertained, learn something new, or find some value beyond purchasing products at lowest price.
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Retail store staff: It is the Actors who create differentiation and value
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it is the actors who are absolutely critical in creating the experience and the services that consumers will pay a premium for.
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the best theater happens when staging is built for the script, and the actors are chosen for their talent to play specific roles to bring the story to life."
"the problem with selling experience is that people get used to it. And there is always somewhere newer to go." (fonte)
"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." "