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Mais uma "Resíduos de pesticidas em comida para bebé em Portugal acima do permitido" e outra ainda:
"Portugal foi também um dos países em que foram encontradas maçãs com resíduos de pesticidas acima do legislado."
"Portugal foi também um dos países em que foram encontradas maçãs com resíduos de pesticidas acima do legislado."
"No mês de janeiro 2013 as exportações aumentaram 5,6% relativamente a janeiro de 2012, devido à evolução positiva registada tanto no mercado Intra-UE como no mercado Extra-UETrechos retirados de "Estatísticas do Comércio Internacional - Janeiro 2013"
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(No comércio intra-UE) "Em janeiro 2013 as exportações aumentaram 3,3% face ao mês homólogo de 2012,
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Em janeiro 2013 as exportações para os Países Terceiros aumentaram 12,0% face ao mês homólogo de 2012"
"Devíamos ter tido mais tempo e mais dinheiro? Os economistas poderão um dia responder a esta pergunta: teríamos tido menos desemprego e menos recessão com mais tempo e dinheiro, para reequilibrar financeiramente o país? Intuitivamente a resposta é não. E não teríamos tido menos desemprego nem menos recessão pura e simplesmente porque a economia portuguesa estava apoiada em sectores como a construção que não conseguiam, mesmo com mais tempo e mais dinheiro, continuar a produzir."Recordar que só nos dois últimos anos o sector da construção perdeu mais de 30% das pessoas empregadas.
"Basta falar com algumas empresas para percebermos que nem tudo corre mal e há negócios que correm até melhor. (Moi ici: Esta é a minha experiência pessoal, 2013 está a ser melhor que 2012. Qual será a representatividade da minha amostra?) Não vale é a pena olhar para os sectores que pertencem ao passado, como a construção. E esperemos que o Governo, na sua tentação de ganhar as eleições autárquicas e de acelerar a recuperação, não cometa o erro de orientar o pouco crédito que há para a construção. (Moi ici: Infelizmente tudo se conjuga para isso, como escreve o Paulo Vaz, passarmos de uma fase "stop" para uma nova fase "go" onde o Estado enterra dinheiro na construção)
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As perdas que a troika nos impôs só se transformam em ganhos se o Governo não cometer o erro habitual do eleitoralismo que se começa a detectar em anúncios de apoios à construção. Deixem as empresas, as novas empresas, trabalhar." (Moi ici: As novas e as outras, as que já fizeram o desmame, ou nunca precisaram de o fazer porque não dependeram nunca do Estado)
"O têxtil perdeu quase 3500 empresas e atirou para o desemprego mais de 70 mil pessoas, nos últimos anos. A reestruturação gerou um sector competitivo e o mais exportador do país, a seguir à indústria automóvel.A isto chama-se aumentar a produtividade gerada por cada trabalhador.
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No ano passado, um total de cinco mil empresas foram responsáveis por 4,2 mil milhões de euros de exportações, valor só ligeiramente inferior ao verificado oito anos antes, quando o sector contava com mais 3480 sociedades, num total de mais de oito mil."
"Finnish business sector productivity has soared in the past few decades. In addition to macro-level sources of productivity growth and within-unit developments, our analysis shows that creative destruction has a vital role. Entry, exit, and resource reallocation among continuing plants explain about one third of the overall productivity growth in Finnish manufacturing since 1975 and virtually all of the productivity acceleration since 1985.Trecho retirado de "Finland’s Path to the Global Productivity Frontier through Creative Destruction"
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In a frontier economy, creative destruction is about experimentation, reallocation, and selection among individuals (particularly managers) and businesses. Consequently, it brings about some personal discontinuities and uncertainties. It would, however, be a mistake to assume that creative destruction would have longer-term negative effects on life satisfaction. At least in Finland, it seems that restructuring has rather promoted perceived happiness. Finns arguably seem to understand that creative destruction provides new opportunities."
"She began a summer camp in which kids spend a week caring for cows, learning about agriculture and running around a huge open space for $425 per week. Now the camp is almost as profitable as a year of milking cows. “That summer-camp program put me through Cornell,” Breanna says with a laugh. She’s also negotiating with a cheesemaker to turn their milk into high-value Fulper-branded cheese."Trecho retirado daqui.
"O peso do crédito a particulares no total do crédito interno, que no final de 1979 era de 7,5%, um valor demasiado reduzido para um país do nosso tipo, fixou-se à volta de 12%, de 1981 a 1984. Na segunda metade dessa década registou uma clara subida, que o levou até cerca de 19% do total no período de 1990 a 1994. No início da segunda metade da década de 1990, precisamente quando a dívida externa estava a disparar como vimos, começou uma espantosa subida que o levou a mais de duplicar a sua dimensão relativa ao total, com valores acima de 46% em 2006. Em 2012, os valores já andam abaixo de 39% do crédito total.Trecho retirado de "As 10 questões da recuperação" de João César das Neves
Tudo isto são indicadores que nos sugerem que, nos últimos vinte anos, Portugal viveu um clima de optimismo, facilidade e ilusão."
"a costura é uma arte"E o futuro é dos alfaiates e das modistas literal e figurativamente:
"Interestingly, firms exporting to higher-income regions saw greater productivity growth. Apparently the export market - not just the exporter itself - matters. This raises interesting selection issues about which markets firms choose to export to, even conditional on the decision to export in the first place."
"A new report from McKinsey, a consultancy, calculates that China is now the world’s second-largest market for “premium” cars (which include posh brands like BMW and Aston Martin plus the snazziest offerings from mass-market producers like Volkswagen and GM). It estimates that China will surpass America by 2020 to become the world’s biggest consumer (see chart)."Trecho retirado de "Still racing ahead"
"The everydayness of the customer's reality is emphasised and the view of the customer is shifted from a "customer" to a "person". Customer needs are shifting from utility needs to deeper, psychological needs visualising the identity of the person behind the customer surface.Uns apostam em interacção zero, as máquinas fazem tudo, o cliente só tem de escolher o que quer no menu e chamam a isso de low-cost. Outros apostam na interacção, no contacto humano, na personalização... cada vez mais descubro novas vantagens nesta metodologia de Zander.
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The Customer-Dominant logic shifts the focus from the mind to the body and from the customer to a person. According to the Customer-Dominant logic, value is not objective or purely subjective; it is through its relative and cumulated nature always personal. Value is not isolated since the reality of the customer is interconnected to the realities of others. Value is therefore embedded in the dynamic, collective and shared customer realities, which even the customer, cannot always orchestrate."
"Não somos a melhor ajuda para o que pretende, se quiser, podemos recomendar 2 ou 3 empresas no mercado que talvez o possam ajudar. Se trabalhasse connosco não iria ficar satisfeito, não iria valorizar a forma como abordamos o desafio e, como o desafio é seu, para si iria ver-nos como uns complicadores"
"Disseram-me que receberam várias propostas de empresas e consultores, todas elas com uma ou mais destas características:
- Bem mais baratas;
- Dizendo-lhes que a certificação se consegue em pouco tempo – 3 ou 4 meses;
- Dizendo-lhes que podem estar descansados porque os interlocutores não vão ter intervenção/ trabalho nenhum, aquilo é coisa simples (a empresa é uns 40 operários, um chefe o patrão – estes dois são os interlocutores); e
- Acenando com financiamentos."
"Segundo uma fonte do gabinete de comunicação da diocese, foi a primeira vez que D. José Cordeiro conduziu o veículo, que tinha sido comprado no final desta semana."
"Do the next right thingClaro que, para chegar a este ponto é preciso uma certa forma de pensar:
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This began the process of letting him think clearly. Forcing your brain to think sequentially—in times of crisis and in day-to-day life—can quiet dangerous emotions."
"Control your destinyÉ preciso reconhecer a tendência para a auto-ilusão:
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Some people, he says, view themselves as essentially in control of the good and bad things they experience—i.e., they have an internal locus of control. Others believe that things are done to them by outside forces or happen by chance: an external locus."
"Deny denial
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Denial plays a large role in many wilderness accidents. Take getting lost. A hiker in denial will continue walking even after losing the trail, assuming he’ll regain it eventually. He’ll press on—and become increasingly lost—even as doubt slowly creeps in. Learn to recognize your tendency to see things not as they are but how you wish them to be and you’ll be better able to avoid such crises."
"A tradição não é começar pela vida do cliente, pelo seu job-to-be-done, pela experiência que procura e que quer viver, a tradição está focada na oferta das empresas:Agora, comparar isto com esta reflexão em "De-escalation":
- o que produzimos;
- o que temos;
- o que fazemos;
Daqui salta-se para a necessidade premente de escoar o que se tem, daqui salta-se para se agir como vendedor em vez de consultor de compra...
- a nossa gama de oferta;
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Quando quem vende impinge algo que não é o mais adequado para a vida de um cliente está a apostar no ganho de curto-prazo, no sucesso da transacção actual. Esquece-se é que a avaliação do que é valor para o cliente continua durante o uso e depois do uso."
"Escalation causes us to commit to our original need, by reinforcing it.Um consultor de compra não impinge o que tem na prateleira, um consultor de compra privilegia a relação.
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But what happens when we do the opposite? If we think about connection instead of power, if we think about abundance instead of scarcity, we can turn this on its head.
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What if we de-escalate conflict?
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What if we don't try to turn shopping desire into a fever pitch? What if later is just as good, or better, than now?
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What if we back off occasionally instead of pressing forward?
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What if playing the game starts to become at least as important as winning it?
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De-escalation creates connection, not commitment to previously made choices. It trades the short-term battle for the long-term relationship.
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Taking our time and letting air in (and heat to escape) might be precisely the best way to build the relationships we need for the long run. It leads to better decisions, less shrapnel and work that truly matters, without regret."
"Sometimes it's useful to be reminded that a great strategy is only great in context. From the early 1980s and into the 90s, Sony's was great.Enquanto fazia o corte e colagem para este postal, veio-me à mente um nome... Reis Campos. E, depois, outro ainda: Zapatero...
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why is the strategy that once served Sony so well now failing so badly? It's not as if its cameras now take fuzzy pictures or its boom boxes fall apart after three months. And the market for consumer electronics is larger than it's ever been.
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This suggests a more fundamental explanation: consumers today care more about the experience, but Sony is still focused on the product. It's gotten trapped by its own past success. In the early 80s, simply delivering technology in a usable form was still the biggest challenge, and Sony got it right before anyone else. It had an astonishing ability to find the next technical hurdle—a brighter TV, a smaller tape player, an integrated camcorder—and leap over it with grace, before its competitors even thought to try. In an industrial, product-oriented economy, this was enough. Every year saw new products with unprecedented capabilities. As long as it could do something new, we didn't seem to care what kind of experience we had using it.
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In the experience economy, these expectations are reversed. Technology is a given, and the question of "what are the specs?" has been replaced by "what is it like to use?" Sony's expertise at making the next great thing has been matched by companies like Samsung and LG, and soon enough, they'll all be caught by increasingly sophisticated Chinese manufacturers. Without modifying its business model, Sony has been left behind by a world that's changed its relationship with technology.
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What's tragic is that Sony still has all the resources to execute well on a new strategy.
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There's nothing magic about innovation, just as there's nothing magic about technology. Both are hard work, but as Sony has shown, all the hard work in the world won't matter if you're working toward a strategy that was framed for an another era."
"o Presidente agora reeleito disse acreditar que em 2008 “se verifique um crescimento positivo da produção, provavelmente acima dos 2,5%, dando assim início a uma nova etapa para o sector e para o país”.O mundo mudou... e as ideias de Reis Campos também mudaram?
Para que tal aconteça, porém, será necessário que o Estado seja capaz de criar as condições necessárias a um novo ciclo de crescimento, sem o que a iniciativa privada não se assumirá como motor de desenvolvimento.
Defendendo a importância do planeamento, do estabelecimento de prazos e objectivos, bem como do seu cumprimento, o Presidente da AICCOPN recordou que para o período de 2008-2017 o Governo anunciou investimentos em infra-estruturas de base que totalizam quarenta mil milhões de euros, mas mostrou-se preocupado por nos primeiros quatro meses deste ano pouco ou nada ter avançado em matéria de obras públicas.
Considerando que os investimentos “tardam a sair do papel e sem eles é impossível a retoma do Sector e o regresso do país ao caminho da convergência com os países mais avançados da União Europeia”, defendeu no seu discurso de posse que “para o país voltar a crescer de forma sustentada precisa de uma nova dinâmica no sector da construção”.
"contrary to what many business leaders think, the world is not flat. It is a round and roiling tangle of complex cultures, each separated from the others by its unique needs and expectations. We, the people who occupy this corrugated landscape, are defined by our history. Our traditions, politics, and religions inform our lives and influence our decisions—from whom we marry to what we buy. In a flat-world marketplace, one size fits all, but fitting a business to the intricate contours of the real world is a far more challenging prospect. That’s what makes design such an important part of any creative business strategy, and it’s also what has placed it in the driver’s seat of the new creative economy.Trecho retirado de "A Fine Line" de Hartmut Esslinger.
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Today, the business world is engaged in a global battle between individualism and collectivism or “Culture versus Commodity,” as I call it. As companies dive for the lowest costs, they abandon highly qualified local workers and place their bets with low-cost labor overseas - all under the “Flat-World” banner of cost-efficiency. As we’ve now seen, strategies that boost the bottom line in the short term often result in unsupportable losses down the road. Businesses that sacrifice their unique strengths for the safety of shared efficiency make losers of us all. They rob us of meaningful jobs, even as they diminish the economic and cultural value of once viable and innovative brands.
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In fact, the old Flat-World economy couldn’t be “won,” and now it can’t even be defended. Yes, by cutting cost and driving scale, businesses have helped to make high-tech products and digital services like computers and cell phones affordable beyond the most optimistic projections of even ten years ago. But the dirty by-product of these stunning technological advances is a world dominated by products that lack any semblance of human or cultural context. These mass-produced, mass-marketed objects don’t provide any type of inspiring consumer experiences. And, in markets divided into high-end luxury and value driven cheapness, competitive strategy becomes murky. How can a company add true value or even just visually differentiate its low-cost cell phone from those of its competitors, when all of them are designed and manufactured in just five or six Asian factories?
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Creative strategy offers clear benefits over the traditional supply chain-dominated approach to business. It results in human-adaptive solutions and not in commodity-like products for which nobody is willing to pay full price - especially when the offerings outnumber the buyers."
"No ano passado, Portugal exportou mais vinhos portugueses do que consumiu internamente."Trecho retirado daqui.
"The On story starts with Swiss triathlete Olivier Bernhard, a triple world champion. Bernhard was looking for a way of overcoming regular running injuries, especially to his knees, but there was nothing on the market that did what he wanted and provided enough cushioning and support."Atletas de alta-competição com um problema por resolver, com um job-to-be-done por realizar. Um tipo de cliente muito exigente e que anda à procura de algo concreto. O extremo oposta à disrupção, em vez de clientes "overserved", clientes "underserved". Clientes "underserved" estão dispostos a pagar mais por algo que melhor a sua vida, neste caso removendo uma consequência negativa de que padecem.
"It's important that the shoe catches your eye to catch your foot,' he adds. Even such a sport-focused company as On ('the DNA is performance') can't escape fashion connotations. 'Our core will always be performance running,' says Allemann, 'but they're also sneakers and can be worn with jeans. We can't blame people who want to do that.'Conhecendo-se bem quem são os clientes-alvo faz todo o sentido trabalhar com eles, interagir com eles, apostar na co-produção e na co-criação, a começar por um dos fundadores e:
"At the time of writing, the team was just about to leave for Hawaii for the Ironman World Championship, where Caroline Steffen, a firm favourite in these gruelling races, was running in On shoes (she came second).Estes clientes-alvo não só ajudam a desenvolver o produto como actuam como poderosos influenciadores no ecossistema da procura. Não fazem publicidade, não são actores pagos para dizer o que está escrito no guião, são pares que influenciam com o seu exemplo, porque procuram o que é melhor para o seu desempenho atlético.
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With prototypes in hand, the nascent company set about getting their products into the hands and onto the feet of the people that mattered - professional athletes. As well as Steffen, the Kenyan marathon runner Tegla Loroupe and the French triathlete David Hauss, among many others, have put the shoes to the test and been persuaded of their speed-enhancing properties."
"luring runners with the promise - scientifically proven, thanks to a survey carried out at ETH Zurich - of improving every aspect of their running.Claro que para barrar a entrada dos tubarões há que proteger a propriedade intelectual:
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The shoe has also won several sport technology awards and recently took pride of place in the Museum für Gestaltung in Zurich."
"On's patented CloudTec system has given it an edge over its larger competitors."Por fim, algo cada vez mais associado aos negócios que tentam vencer pelo desempenho superior, trust Kirk, not Spock, ou seja testar, testar e testar outra vez:
"the team worked on countless prototypes and conducted real world research to perfect what Bernhard now terms 'intelligent cushioning'."Aqui recordo, outra vez, o artigo "Not just a pretty face: economic drivers behind the arts-in-business movement" já aqui citado e também aqui referido:
"-Team New Zealand was able to test many more keels than other teams, which led to their huge win.Por fim, o site da empresa tem um truque que apreciei bastante para ajudar os potenciais clientes a escolherem o melhor sapato para o seu caso. Qualquer corredor sabe o tempo que faz por quilometro, logo um principiante fará mais de 6 minutos e um atleta de alta competição andará em tempos inferiores a 4 minutos.
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Team New Zealand reconceived the process of making a racing keel which allowed them to try many ideas cheaply and rapidly -the cheap and rapid iteration approach to production moves us from Industrial to Post-Industrial process -Pre-industrial making generated HIGH COSTS – innovation costs – the cost of having to do things differently each time, to adjust uncontrollable variations in inputs."
"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." "