"The Mont Fleur Scenarios
What will South Africa be like in the year 2002?
with a new introduction by Mont Fleur facilitator, Adam Kahane"
Hmmm "Macro-economic populism" ... rings a bell?
"The Mont Fleur Scenarios
What will South Africa be like in the year 2002?
with a new introduction by Mont Fleur facilitator, Adam Kahane"
"Marshall’s world of the 1880s and 1890s was one of bulk production: of metal ores, aniline dyes, pig iron, coal, lumber, heavy chemicals, soybeans, coffee - commodities heavy on resources, light on know-how. In that world it was reasonable to suppose, for example, that if a coffee plantation expanded production it would ultimately be driven to use land less suitable for coffee—it would run into diminishing returns.
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Marshall said such a market was in perfect competition, and the economic world he envisaged fitted beautifully with the Victorian values of his time. It was at equilibrium and therefore orderly, predictable and therefore amenable to scientific analysis, stable and therefore safe, slow to change and therefore continuous. Not too rushed, not too profitable. In a word, mannerly. In a word, genteel.
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With a few changes, Marshall’s world lives on a century later within that part of the modern economy still devoted to bulk processing: of grains, livestock, heavy chemicals, metals and ores, foodstuffs, retail goods—the part where operations are largely repetitive day to day or week to week. Product differentiation and brand names now mean that a few companies rather than many
compete in a given market. But typically, if these companies try to expand, they run into some limitation: in numbers of consumers who prefer their brand, in regional demand, in access to raw materials. So no company can corner the market. And because such products are normally substitutable for one another, something like a standard price emerges. Margins are thin and nobody makes a killing. This isn’t exactly Marshall’s perfect competition, but it approximates it.
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Because the two worlds of business—processing bulk goods, and crafting knowledge into products - differ in their underlying economics, it follows that they differ in their character of competition and their culture of management. It is a mistake to think that whatworks in one world is appropriate for the other.
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Let us look at the two cultures of competition. In bulk processing, a set of standard prices typically emerges. Production tends to be repetitive—much the same from day to day or even from year to year. Competing therefore means keeping product flowing, trying to improve quality, getting costs down. There is an art to this sort of management, one widely discussed in the literature. It favors an environment free of surprises or glitches—an environment characterized by control and planning.
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Competition is different in knowledge-based industries, because the economics are different. ... Hierarchies flatten not because democracy is suddenly bestowed on the work force or because computers can cut out much of middle management. They flatten because, to be effective, the deliverers of the next-thing-for-thecompany need to be organized like commando units in small teams that report directly to the CEO or to the board."
"Para o próximo ano, a grande tendência no mundo do comércio eletrónico é a aposta nos serviços de subscrição, um modelo de negócio que garante estabilidade de rendimentos aos vendedores e um serviço mais completo aos consumidores, que recebem em casa, periodicamente, os produtos que pediram.
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Os empreendedores que estão por detrás de algumas novas empresas afirmam que apreciam a flexibilidade que o modelo permite, assim como o desenvolvimento de relações mais profundas com os clientes. Meredith Lantz e Joe Barwin, fundadores da Bitters + Bottles, uma loja de bebidas alcoólicas de gama alta no sul de San Francisco, têm tanto uma montra física como um serviço de subscrição que oferece envios mensais de bebidas espirituosas raras e cocktails clássicos. «O melhor com uma subscrição é ter regularidade e passar algum tempo a familiarizar-nos com uma coisa de cada vez», indica Lantz. «Podemos ser aquilo que os nossos clientes decidirem que querem que sejamos nesse dia», acrescenta.
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Os modelos de subscrição são também uma forma de cultivar a lealdade.
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Também as empresas digitais se estão a mover na direção dos serviços de subscrição. A Adobe basicamente descontinuou o seu popular produto Photoshop e oferece agora um serviço de subscrição sediado na cloud, o Adobe Creative Cloud. Scott Morris, diretor-sénior de marketing de produto para a nova abordagem da Adobe, refere que a ação surgiu como parte de um esforço mais abrangente para baixar os custos para os consumidores e maximizar a eficiência.
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«As nossas equipas de engenharia já não precisam de esperar 12 a 24 meses para lançarem as mais recentes inovações (Moi ici: É como as revistas digitais que se publicam mensalmente, é ficar preso a uma limitação que era imposta pelos átomos, com bits isso pode ser contornado) – que é o velho modelo, quando tínhamos de esperar que todas as novas soluções estivessem prontas até termos as suficientes para justificar a criação e um envio que os clientes estivessem dispostos a pagar», afirma Morris. «Agora podemos deixar de “perseguir o upgrade” e focar-nos apenas em entregar um fluxo constante de inovação», conclui. (Moi ici: Recordo logo o truque para viver num mundo sem patentes... a inovação contínua, a moda)
"Any strategy adds value only as far as it sharpens or enhances the answers to five existential questions that every enterprise should be asking itself every day:Trecho retirado de "Introducing s+b’s “Strategy of the Year”"
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1. What business or businesses should you be in?
2. How do you add value to your businesses?
3. Who are the target customers for your businesses?
4. What are your value propositions to those target customers?
5. What capabilities do you need to add value to your businesses and differentiate your value propositions?
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I call these the Strategic Five. If you can’t answer these, your strategies—in whatever form they take—are incomplete, misdirected, or, perhaps, mislabeled. But if the Strategic Five remain your true north, your strategies will enhance rather than dilute the coherence of your business (more about this is a future blog post)."
"O volume de vendas de automóveis ligeiros de passageiros aumentou 17,7% em termos homólogos no trimestre terminado em outubro, o que compara com 15,7% do 3.º trimestre."Tendo em conta as interpretações que por aí andam sobre a diminuição do desemprego, apetece perguntar:
- Será que os portugueses que emigraram vêm a Portugal comprar carro? Será que a fiscalidade portuguesa beneficia a compra em Portugal? Então, se não foram eles, quem foi?
"Two uncomfortable strategic truths face the vast majority of executives and companies – and probably you, too. First, you don’t have a powerful strategy. And second, you aren’t doing much about it.Recordar esta figura
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The widespread absence of a powerful strategy is clear from our recent study of 3,000 of the world’s largest companies, which finds that just 20 percent in that group create 90 percent of its total economic profit. The rest of the companies, more than 2,400, simply do not have a strategy that effectively outperforms the market.
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A second new McKinsey study delves into the question of what executives are doing about their strategic shortfall, and concludes that most are not doing enough.
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While they should increase investment in the parts of their business with the best shot at creating value and cut investment in business lines that are tapped out, they don’t. Instead they divvy up their corporate resources in the same way year after year, giving businesses, whether great or weak, essentially the same slice of corporate resources they had the year before."
"Depois de anos de forte declínio, que levou ao enceramento de muitas empresas de norte a sul do país, a indústria conserveira portuguesa parece atravessar um bom momento. Segundo dados da própria ANICP, esta indústria - que emprega directamente mais de 3500 pessoas (e outras tantas indirectamente) - exporta actualmente para mais de 70 países e vendeu, no período de Janeiro a Setembro deste ano, cerca de 40 mil toneladas, o que representa um crescimento, face a igual período do ano anterior, de 26% em volume e 24% em facturação, num negócio que vale actualmente 165 milhões de euros."Crescer 26% em volume num ano... é obra.
"O “Footure2020” é o sexto plano estratégico da fileira do calçado, que procura, em traços gerais, definir as grandes prioridades do sector para os próximos sete anos. O primeiro documento foi apresentado em 1978 e teve como principal autor Miguel Cadilhe, antigo ministro das Finanças.Quem ler o artigo e não conhecer o sector fica com a ideia que este progresso foi linear e contínuo. Nada mais errado!
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Neste espaço de tempo (34 anos), o número de empresas de calçado duplicou para mais de 1.300, o número de trabalhadores aumentou mais de 130%, para cerca de 26 mil, e as exportações cresceram de três milhões para 1,6 mil milhões de euros, com o peso das vendas ao exterior na produção a passar de 30% para 96%."
"No limite pode acontecer, sair duma crise estrutural e cair numa crise conjuntural."Aqui escrevíamos isto, ao mesmo tempo, os gurus escreviam isto.
"Os licenciados desempregados que querem fazer cursos técnicos como cabeleireiro, restauro ou agricultura esbarram nas regras do Instituto do Emprego e Formação Profissional (IEFP), que os impedem de frequentar formações de nível inferior às suas habilitações. Mudar de vida parece não ser uma opção.
Apesar de o Estado gastar milhões em acções de formação - este ano estão orçados 460 milhões de euros, para desempregados e activos -, muitos queixam-se de frequentar cursos inúteis e serem impedidos de fazer as formações que desejam.
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Fonte oficial do IEFP esclarece que “as acções de formação de nível 2 e de nível 4 são dirigidas a candidatos detentores de habilitações inferiores ao 9.º ou ao 12.º ano, respectivamente”, sendo que “os desempregados licenciados já são, para todos os efeitos, detentores de uma qualificação de nível 6”. Daí que as soluções que lhes são apresentadas “centram-se noutras ofertas mais ajustadas ao seu perfil”. (Moi ici: Grande parvoíce, os burocratas só pensam nos níveis e mais níveis, não percebem que há gente interessada genuinamente em fazer um curso, não por ser obrigada para poder continuar a receber o subsídio, mas para mudar de vida???!!!)
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“Um dos cursos que me propuseram foi de Gestão de Stress. Faz algum sentido? Como é que isso me vai ajudar a encontrar emprego?” - pergunta Clara, que está inscrita no centro de emprego desde Janeiro, mas só em Outubro foi chamada para fazer formação. Perante as opções que lhe deram, escolheu Inglês para Atendimento: “Como são 25 horas, duvido que vá aprender alguma coisa, mas sempre é melhor que Gestão de Stress”. Nas aulas, encontra gente desmotivada, forçada a estar em cursos que não sente como mais-valia. “É uma espécie de ATL para adultos”.
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“Estes cursos são uma ficção paga por todos nós”, resume Luís Bento, lembrando que só entre 1989 e 1990 gastaram-se “mil milhões de contos” em formação profissional. “Nesses dez anos, não deixámos de ser o país da UE com mais baixas qualificações”.
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O especialista defende que Portugal deveria optar por um modelo de cheque-ensino para a formação profissional. “É mais eficaz e mais barato, porque cada um pode escolher a formação que considera mais adequada”.(Moi ici: Mas isso iria acabar com muitos esquemas de obtenção de dinheiro fácil em que os clientes não são os formandos potenciais e os seus potenciais empregadores mas os burocratas)"
"When you have limited resources, you need to be extracareful to use them wisely.
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That's actually the only problem with having competition from much larger companies: It sometimes leads you to focus on the wrong things.
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So I urged them to focus on the advantages they have but aren't currently using."
"user experience is a consequence of a user’s internal state (predispositions, expectations, needs, motivation, mood, etc.), the characteristics of the designed system (complexity, purpose, usability, functionality, etc.), and the context (or the environment) within which the interaction occurs. People do not simply engage in experiences as ready-made; they actively construct them through a process of making sense. Experience is as much a product of what the user brings to the situation as it is about the artefacts that participate in the experience."
"Dangerous price moves can destroy your business, either with sharply reduced revenues and/or competitive inroads. Yet many managers have little awareness as to which are the most dangerous price actions. For instance, the most dangerous price move by far is lowering your price, because it can alienate customers.
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When raise price, you are going to initially communicate the higher price to existing customers who know something about the value you offer. Yes, a higher price can be challenging, but at least the change affects those who know something about your value (existing customers) or those being targeted with a value message already. Noncustomers may never know the history of changes in price or value, so they are not bothered by it.
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Why do many rational managers believe that lowering prices is safe and useful? It's possible that the root of the problem lies with the idea of price elasticity. Price elasticity contains the seductive notion that a single simple number will explain market buying behavior and its relationship to price. This is almost never so. The idea that elasticity could do this is an insult to segmentation and context."
"For at least two decades, I seldom ran into any entrepreneur whose notion of success did not include building a business that would one day have a lot of employees. But that changed in the mid-2000s. I began seeing more entrepreneurs with a different mindset and a different goal. Many didn’t want employees at all. What they did want was the ability to support themselves and their families without having to report to a boss-;in a word, independence. Thanks to the Internet, moreover, they had an increasing number of avenues to pursue their independence.A co-evolução que gera Mongo. Empresas mais pequenas, mais diversidade de abordagens, mais heterogeneidade de estratégias e de modelos de negócio.
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Now, I’m not saying there aren’t any entrepreneurs who want to build big companies. Obviously, many do, and some succeed. Witness Twitter, Facebook, and Zappos, among others. But I believe entrepreneurs with such aspirations are a minority these days. As I’ve noted, most of the would-be entrepreneurs I meet are starting Web-based businesses on the side while continuing to hold full-time jobs. Their goal is to be independent rather than to build something big.
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I expect this trend to accelerate"
" In many industries, price discounts of 15-20% are common in order to win business, so a difference in just 1% of the selling price does not seem to be that important. However, let’s take a look at the effect this trivial difference can have on the company’s bottom line. As an example, suppose a company has a net profit before tax of 5% of sales. A 1% difference in the selling price will have a 20% impact on profits!"
"The deal shows how companies are trying to reconnect with Europe's cash-strapped consumers, who increasingly rely on renting, sharing or even bartering for products and services ranging from clothing to vacations to lawn mowing.Será que o motivo principal para este sucesso é a crise, ou é antes uma mudança da percepção que as pessoas têm da sua relação com os objectos?
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"Everything that has to do with collaborative consumption is absolutely on the rise, and that has to do with people having less money to spend," said Lucia Reisch, a professor of consumer issues at the Copenhagen Business School."
"Stairs, from being a hassle for some have become the differentiating feature in renting the apartment.Num postal anterior ele tinha defendido que os apartamentos com escadas, sem elevador, eram penalizados por isso... só os clientes definem o que é valor.
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Not only are stairs more than usually important in a walk-up, but, he said, “you hear renters say that they are looking for something with character — that character is an amenity. The staircase is a great place to find that, because it is the place where interactions with neighbors happen.”
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It sure adds more credence to the theory that it is customers who decide value and it is the job of marketer to understand that and deliver them a product that delivers them that value. Of course the marketer gets to share that value in the form of better price realization."
"Só como curiosidade, conheço dois casos de uma parceria em curso:Gente anónima que faz pela vida, só querem é que os deixem trabalhar e que não lhes compliquem mais a vida.
Empresa pequenina que monta cozinhas / monta casas em França
- Faz o projecto com o cliente, incluindo 3D bonitinho para o cliente perceber bem a coisa
- Compra cá electrodomésticos, parte dos móveis, sofás, etc
- Faz ele próprio os móveis de cozinha
- Vai ele instalar a França
- Diz-me que tem boas margens e que aos franceses fica muito mais barato
Empresa que “instala” hotéis no exterior:
- Eu já vi evidencias de que tem mesmo muito trabalho neste negócio
- Tanto trabalham com luxo para Europa como com coisas mais comezinhas para Angola…
- No caso de França, fazem cá o projecto, compram tudo a fornecedores, vendem ao distribuidor francês, que depois vende aos clientes (hotéis) = 3 margens
- Pelos vistos, não têm mãos a medir…"
"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." "