"Uma Tragédia dos Comuns (parte II)"Há os que abraçam a mudança:
"A third of registered cabbies in San Francisco are now driving for Uber, Sidecar, or Lyft"
"Uma Tragédia dos Comuns (parte II)"Há os que abraçam a mudança:
"A third of registered cabbies in San Francisco are now driving for Uber, Sidecar, or Lyft"
"Para António Madaleno, presidente da Orivárzea (dona da marca Bom Sucesso), o carolino é o arroz nacional. “É o que os nossos agricultores querem e fazem. Também se faz agulha, mas esse não é o nosso arroz”, defende, sublinhando que é “uma aberração comer um arroz de grelos ou de cabidela feito com a variedade agulha”."Isto é tão... século passado, tão século XX, tão regresso ao passado em que quem mandava era quem produzia e os consumidores podiam comprar o que aparecia nas prateleiras, não tinham alternativa.
"A empresa procura distinguir-se pela aposta no fabrico de vinhos de qualidade, inspirados no que as pessoas sentem e feitos para momentos específicos"Uma aplicação do conceito "qual é o job-to-be-done?". As pessoas contratam produtos para que prestem um serviço nas suas vidas. Momentos específicos requerem serviços específicos prestados por produtos específicos.
"Num lago há um nenúfar que todos os dias cresce para o dobro do seu tamanho. Se em cem dias cobrir o lago inteiro, quantos dias serão necessários para cobrir metade?"A primeira vez que o vi e cheguei à solução recordo que me deixou a pensar no fenómeno... gradually and then suddenly.
"the natural experiment, where the recorded music industry removes DRM on music at diff erent times, provides the fi rst evidence on the eff ect of a more "relaxed" digital copyright strategy on sales and, in particular, on the entire sales distribution.Trecho retirado de "Intellectual Property Strategy and the Long Tail: Evidence from the Recorded Music Industry"
My analysis in this paper, based on a large representative sample of albums from all four major record companies, sheds light on this question. I finnd that the removal of DRM increases digital sales by 10%. More importantly, the e ffect is most pronounced for albums at the long tail of the music sales distribution, providing support for the long tail hypothesis that lowering search costs can facilitate product discovery of non-mainstream fare."
"Consumers value a product more highly when they make it themselves—but only if the assembly procedure is structured in a way that allows them to make creative decisions throughout the process.".
"Through the Industrial Research Institute’s foresights study — IRI2038 — several plausible scenarios of the future of R&D were explored. In one scenario, traditional manufacturing collapses under the strain placed on it by 3-D printing and heightened speed-to-market practices and is largely replaced by local manufacturing networks.".
"From making your own soup bowls to redesigning flawed windshield wipers, many of us are beginning to hear stories about everyday consumer uses for 3D scanners and printers. With these applications we see a vanishing distance—literal and cognitive—between manufacturing and consumer need. From the new vantage point of the burgeoning “maker movement,” we perceive ourselves as a one-person supply chain: in-shoring happens right in our own basement.
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Perceptions will shift most dramatically in entrepreneurship, where 3D printing is making it easier to quickly realize ideas, prototype, gain feedback, and loosen the grip of traditional firms on producing material things.
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Entrepreneurs who don’t want to buy a 3D printer can always try out one of the new DIY fabrication studios popping up."
"What do they believe?
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Who do they trust?
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What are they afraid of and who do they love?
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What are they seeking?
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Who are their friends?
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What do they talk about?"
"As pequenas empresas são as que criam mais emprego representando 60% de novos postos de trabalho criados,
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As empresas de crescimento elevado - com um crescimento de 20% ao ano e que têm um mínimo de 10 trabalhadores -, apesar de representarem "menos de 1% das empresas", a nível nacional, criam 10% de todos os empregos gerados num ano, segundo a base de dados da Informa D&B, que contém dados de todas as empresas registadas em Portugal.
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Das empresas criadas em Portugal em 2011, por exemplo, 30% situam-se no sector dos serviços, na sua maioria, resultam da iniciativa de pessoas singulares, cerca de 46 mil, contra as 2.500 empresas criadas por entidades colectivas, referiu a mesma responsável."
"PS: A associação nacional de construção civil do Norte, a AICCPON, promete a criação de 70 mil empregos em 2014 "se o Governo cooperar", leia-se, se voltar à normalidade do passado e promover o crescimento económico por via da despesa pública, se o Estado, por via dos impostos, financiar este sector de actividade. É a prova de que, passados quase três anos sobre o pedido de ajuda externa, ainda não é claro para todos o que nos trouxe até aqui e, pior ainda, o que significa o pós-‘troika' e as exigências que se vão seguir. O ‘countdown' de Paulo Portas deveria ter em conta que 17 de Maio não é mesmo o último dia do fim da história."Trecho retirado de "Um défice melhor do que a encomenda (de Passos)"
"No parecer refere-se que os docentes devem ser especialistas no domínio do "ensino precoce da língua", o que envolve "formação científica e pedagógica, devidamente certificada"."O meu lado cínico, reconheço, pensa logo em: mais uma forma de assassinar o gosto pelo inglês... em vez de aprendê-lo vendo filmes e séries, ouvindo e lendo letras das canções e ... ter um professor formal para ensinar gramática inglesa...
"A profound shift in consumers' spending habits, in which goods are repackaged as services, is well underway and has the potential to fundamentally reshape the rhythm of the American economy.Associei logo isto à minha leitura desta manhã no comboio:
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Increasingly, thanks to companies like Amazon, even goods like groceries promise to be consumed more like subscriptions. One can now arrange for recurring monthly deliveries of cereals or diapers."
"Human beings are trained to be sensitive to the pain of paying money out of our pocket. This means that even when a process involves only metaphorical money - like a credit card or a storecard - some of the pain effect still carries over. However, when the cost is instead absorbed into a place where you are relatively insensitive to small changes in value - your monthly phone bill - the pain goes away."Trecho retirado de "The Psycology of Price" de Leigh Caldwell
"A commodity has a value, because it is a crystallization of social labour. The greatness of its value, or its relative value, depends upon the greater or less amount of that social substance contained in it; that is to say, on the relative mass of labour necessary for its production. The relative values of commodities are, therefore, determined by the respective quantities or amounts of labour, worked up, realized, fixed in them. The correlative quantities of commodities which can be produced in the same time of labour are equal."Isto está impregnado na sociedade como uma verdade axiomática que serve de suporte a toda uma geração de políticas.
"Value is ... nothing inherent in goods, no property of them. Value is a judgment economizing men make about the importance of the goods at their disposal for the maintenance of their lives and well-being. Hence value does not exist outside the consciousness of men .... [T]he value of goods.. is entirely subjective in nature." (Ebenstein)Outra citação:
"The value of goods arises from their relationship to our needs, and is not inherent in the goods themselves .... Objectification of the value of which is entirely subjective in nature, has nevertheless contributed very greatly to confusion about the basic principles of our science .... The importance that goods have for us and which we call value is merely imputed." (Menger 1873)Outra citação:
"By the late nineteenth century, however, economists had given up on the notion that it is primarily labour which determines the value of goods .... This new understanding marked a revolution in the development of economics. It is also a sobering reminder of how long it can take for even highly intelligent people to get rid of a misconception whose fallacy then seems obvious in retrospect. It is not costs which create value; it is value which causes purchasers to be willing to repay the costs incurred in the production of what they want." (Sowell 2004)Este último sublinhado devia fazer parte das leituras diárias de qualquer economista...
"The final question needed in order to come to grips with business purpose and business mission is: 'What is value to the customer?' It may be the most important question. Yet it is the one least often asked. One reason is that managers are quite sure that they know the answer. Value is what they, in their business, define as quality. But this is almost always the wrong definition. The customer never buys a product. By definition the customer buys the satisfaction of a want. He buys value."E, para terminar esta primeira parte, uma questão que todas as empresas deviam fazer e sobre a qual deviam reflectir:
"since price is determined by value - and now that we have explored in detail the subject theory of value, we have a better undestanding of this concept - shouldn't someone within the company be in charge of comprehending, communicating and capturing value? Al businesses talk about value, and all agree it is essential to create, and constantly add to, but who is in charge of it?Quem é que está encarregado, na sua empresa, de compreender, comunicar e capturar valor?
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No customer buys costs. efforts or activities, yet many businesses continue to price on a cost-plus basis. The customer wants to see the baby, not hear about the labour pains."
"As exportações da indústria têxtil e vestuário nacional continuaram a aumentar em termos comparativos na reta final do ano de 2013, com os números de novembro a darem conta de um crescimento de 3,5% e de um papel cada vez mais importante dos mercados extracomunitários.Trechos retirados de "Crescimento imparável"
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Um crescimento significativo que a ATP atribui, em grande parte, ao «esforço que tem vindo a ser desenvolvido na diversificação de mercados de destino, sobretudo em mercados não comunitários, para onde este sector exportou mais 10%», aponta Paulo Vaz, diretor-geral da associação, em comunicado.
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Tunísia (+36%), EUA (+16%), Angola (+12%), China (+11%) e Suíça (+10%) foram os destinos extracomunitários que registaram os maiores crescimentos.
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No entanto, nos primeiros 11 meses de 2013 os mercados comunitários continuaram a ser os maiores clientes da ITV portuguesa, com os três principais destinos – Espanha (+0,7%), França (+1,2%) e Reino Unido (+12%) – a comprarem mais.
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Em termos de categorias exportadas, os maiores crescimentos registaram-se nos tecidos em malha (+11,6%), têxteis-lar (+8,7%), fibras sintéticas ou artificiais descontínuas (+7,4%), pastas, feltros e artigos de cordoaria (+6,9%) e vestuário e acessórios de malha (+6,5%).
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Já as principais quebras registaram-se nos artigos em seda (-48,8%), uma categoria pouco representativa no conjunto das exportações portuguesas da ITV (não representa sequer 1%), outras fibras têxteis vegetais (-19,9%), artigos de lã (-7%) e vestuário e acessórios exceto malha (-6,2%)."
"A economia francesa está assente em dois pilares: a despesa do Estado representa 57% do PIB, uma das mais altas do mundo, e a carga fiscal 45% do PIB, a par da Bélgica, a mais elevada do euro. O problema de Hollande é que com a economia estagnada – uma realidade que não conseguiu inverter – não há carga fiscal ou ideologia que aguente tamanha despesa."
"Para 2013 espera-se menos emprego, menos investimento, pior prestação em termos de resultados. Não há milagres"Não acredito que tenha ocorrido um milagre:
"a hotelaria, em Novembro de 2013, registou, de acordo com os números do INE, 98 milhões de euros de proveitos totais e 65,4 milhões de euros proveitos de aposento. Estes valores revelam crescimentos em termos homólogos de 5,6% e de 7,2%, respectivamente. Contudo, em relação ao período entre Janeiro e Novembro, estes valores são “ligeiramente superiores (+5,2% de proveitos totais e +6,2% de proveitos de aposento)”."Não acredito nos discursos cor-de-rosa mas detesto os discursos sem esperança, sem locus no interior, indutores de cortisol até mais não.
"A modernização das linhas de montagem, tornando-as mais flexíveis e preparadas para vários tipos de construção de calçado em simultâneo, e com uma velocidade de produção ainda mais ajustada à dinâmica excecional do setor do calçado foi o mote para o desenvolvimento do projeto HighSpeedShoeFactory.Estou a recordar-me de "Mais uma sugestão para um modelo de negócio" e a pensar num espaço deste tipo a poder ser partilhado/alugado por várias empresas independentes...
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Trata-se de um novo modelo de fábrica de calçado para resposta ágil em 24 horas (1-2 dias) orientado para a produção unitária, par a par, capaz de responder sem stocks, às vendas pela internet, às pequenas encomendas e reposições de produtos em loja e, ao fabrico rápido das amostras e testes de novos produtos para as novas coleções.
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Concebido numa lógica de “secção única” de total flexibilidade e total polivalência, este novo modelo organizacional em fluxo único de produção, vem assim, substituindo as tradicionais secções de corte, costura, montagem e acabamento por sistemas de distribuição automatizada integrados com sistemas de corte automatizado e controlo automatizado online dos fluxos dos produtos e processo."
"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." "