"No is the foundation that we can build our yes on."
Trecho retirado de "No is essential"
"retail stores can be more than places that sell products; they can become engagement platforms"Recordar o exemplo da Retrosaria:
"Uma manifestação em que participaram cerca de 20 mil pessoas em várias cidades na província de Binh Doung provocou o incêndio de 15 unidades industriais estrangeiras instaladas no Sul do Vietname. Na sequência desses incidentes mais de 400 pessoas foram detidas.Ver também "Vietnamese mobs ransack foreign factories in anti-China violence":
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A maioria das propriedades localizadas no Parque Industrial Vietname-Singapura I & II (VSIP) foram atacadas por manifestantes que estão indignados contra a instalação pela China de uma plataforma de petróleo no mar do Sul da China em território reclamado pela China e pelo Vietname."
"“Countless Taiwanese factories were set on fire, smashed and ransacked,” said Hsieh Shuting, vice secretary-general of the Taiwanese Chamber of Commerce, in Vietnam on Thursday. “A large number of Taiwanese businessmen are evacuating Vietnam for Taiwan.”Tudo a contribuir para dar mais força a esta corrente "Lição para os portugueses: nunca confiar no low-cost". África será a novo destino do low-cost?
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There were reports on Thursday that several hundred Chinese workers had fled Vietnam via a border crossing into Cambodia to avoid the violence.
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The attacks have echoes of violent protests against Japanese companies in China in 2012 related to a separate dispute over the Senkaku Islands – which Beijing claims and calls the Diaoyu – in the East China Sea."
"A indústria portuguesa de calçado deve "algum do seu sucesso relativo" à escassez de financiamento que atingiu a Europa durante os últimos anosBTW, sinto que aquela figura lá em cima tem de ser alterada... novos picos e vales apareceram, alguns picos e alguns vales desapareceram ou mudaram de altura.
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"Houve uma escassez de financiamento na Europa e as grandes empresas que compravam toneladas de contentores na China tiveram de desmantelar as suas cadeias logísticas e passaram a ter necessidade de comprar o melhor possível, ao pé da porta, fazendo encomendas 'just in time' em países com capacidade de resposta", notou o diretor-geral da Associação Portuguesa dos Industriais de Calçado, Componentes, Artigos de Pele e seus Sucedâneos (APICCAPS), no final de um almoço-debate organizado pela Câmara de Comércio Luso-Francesa."
"De facto, o jogo do mercado actual é muito mais acerca de quem é que é capaz de ser mais criativo a desenhar uma solução que rompe com um enquadramento sistémico existente, (Moi ici: Se a lei o permitisse, imaginem o preço a que chegava aos consumidores o pescado e, o ganho que os pescadores teriam, se, com a internet, se fizesse o by-pass ao sistema instalado. Imaginem para os os produtos agrícolas...) do que quem é que se consegue posicionar numa cadeia de valor. A cadeia de valor era uma metáfora muito mais forte e poderosa numa economia baseada na produção e em materiais do que numa economia baseada em serviços e conhecimento."Por isso, os meus olhos brilharam logo ao ler "Pescadores vão comercializar "cabaz do mar" no concelho de Odemira":
"Uma pequena comunidade piscatória do concelho de Odemira, situada junto à aldeia do Brejão, está a desenvolver um projecto de venda directa de peixe aos consumidores.
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A iniciativa pretende eliminar os intermediários e valorizar as espécies menos apreciadas, através da comercialização de um “cabaz do mar”, que inicialmente será composto por cerca de três quilos de pescado fresco e vendido a vinte euros. Este preço inclui a entrega em casa, indicou esta sexta-feira à agência Lusa uma das responsáveis pelo projecto." (Moi ici: IMHO, peca por quererem vender o refugo, deviam experimentar vender as espécies mais valorizadas. OK! É um primeiro passo)
"Seen from a BSC standpoint the “customer perspective” is only implicitly taken into consideration in the existing strategic planning concept. The much discussed development of agriculture from production driven markets to market driven production has obviously not yet had a fundamental impact on the farms’ management structure.Depois, percebe-se melhor a coisa quando se lê:
The focus is mainly on the “internal processes perspective”. Furthermore, the “learning and growth perspective” is undervalued. These results are not unexpected because agriculture traditionally has a very strong orientation of all its structure towards production, while the market or general outside orientation is much weaker.
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Not at least for this reason the results show that the implementation of the (original) BSC concept into Danish agriculture has to be accompanied by a general shift in the business orientation."
"However, once a farmer in Denmark has decided to be a crop, dairy or pig producer he cannot change his specialisation or his business strategy easily. Even his choice of production technologies is largely restricted by legal regulations. Neither can he choose freely to sell his products to whom and at a price he wants. The majority of agricultural producers are selling their products to big processing and packing companies and are also buying most of their input factors from big suppliers. The primary agricultural sector is also characterised by low market power of individual farms. Altogether the typical Danish farm is a highly integrated small business with low strategic flexibility."Máquinas de produção eficiente, difíceis de bater no preço. Recordar que o artigo refere que o produtor de leite tem uma instalação média com ... 145 vacas! (Em Portugal em 2010 a média era de 18 vacas)
Trechos retirados de "Setting profitable prices: a step-by-step guide to pricing strategy—without hiring a consultant" de Marlene Jensen."Ask most businesspeople what they could do to dramatically increase their profi ts, and their answers are usually:
- Increase my advertising
- Add more salespeople
- Add incentives to buy more
All three strategies would probably sell more products, but they are risky. The fi rst two will increase your costs—for which you hope to then get a payoff in increased sales and (hopefully) profi ts. The third strategy will lower your profit margin, so you ’re earning less per unit sold..Yet these three answers miss the most obvious way to dramatically increase profi ts: a price raise....So let ’s look at the same situation—if your units sold were to drop 10 percent when you raise prices 10 percent....What could it mean for you? Typically, with the cost structure at most companies, a 1 percent increase in price yields a 12 percent gain in profi ts (Dolan and Simon, 1996)..There ’s simply no marketing decision you can make with as strong an impact on your profi ts as pricing."
"In the 1950s only one American worker in 20 needed a permit from the government; today that figure is around one in three. Some jobs, such as doctors, clearly need strict controls. But some states require licences for florists and interior designers. Such permits tend to cost hundreds of dollars and months of extra training, yet offer little benefit to consumers,"Trecho retirado de "Tourists beware"
"Desde quando é que os países se tornaram economias apoiadas em empresas que dependem do apoio dos contribuintes? O vice-primeiro-ministro protagonizou a assinatura de 12 contratos de investimento que envolvem apoios públicos. Começa a ser tão normal, aqui como nos outros países, assistir a estas iniciativas que já ninguém se pergunta, mas afinal em que tipo de economia vivemos nós?"Trecho retirado de "Os impostos (também) criam emprego"
"Put simply, there are too many people competing for a tiny slice of the market place. The access to the marketplace for a small winery is constrained by: increased competition from other small labels; a lack of differentiation between competitors with regions; static consumption rates domestically; despite exports increasing 20%, the limited interest of overseas distributors and merchants in low volume producers; increasing competition from US, South American, and Eastern European producers; and the loss to the forces of Woolworths and Coles-Myer of independent wine merchants who traditionally took product from smaller producers.Em vez de manifestações, sintoma de que o locus de controlo está no exterior (?), o que há muito defendemos aqui é a via do pensamento estratégico:
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The dire predicament facing the burgeoning small wine producers is emphasised by the CEO of the Victorian Wine Industry Association who has observed that many vineyards surrounding Melbourne are not viable, and in fact there are “Too many grapes…(and)…“It’s hard bloody work and not the pot of gold everyone thought its was…”. The repercussions are highlighted by the alarming estimate that “Up to 40 per cent of Australia’s wineries are tipped to fail in the next few years as conditions change”."
"Economic success & survival in the tough economic, market and regulatory environment facing small wineries is largely contingent on having effective strategic and operational control. A key driver of effective strategic and operational control is the ability to recognise, measure and react to critical success factors (CSFs).E para quem acha que os empresários portugueses, agrícolas ou não, são piores do que os estrangeiros:
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Small wineries, like any businesses competing in dynamic and complex environments, must have a clear understanding of their objectives and the methods for efficiently and effectively attaining them."
"The customer perspective appears to be relatively un-addressed. Whilst all interviewees speak of the importance of customers, performance measurement is largely a haphazard and random mix of occasional forays into the show circuit, cellar door customer contact, phone or email feedback from customers, and comments by distributors. For six wineries, the comments from tasters at cellar door are the only regular indicator of product and service level. Current sales-mix analysis, together with comments from trade magazines, distributors and fellow winemakers forms a very informal approach to the market demand for their regional product. The utility of much general trade information is often discounted by comments such as “…overall market trend for pinot is one thing, but ours are Macedon ranges pinots, they will stand separate from the others…”. While three wineries have comprehensive initiatives to assess and action CSFs in the customer perspective, the others had a disturbing dislocation which was often justified by views like “…if you make good wine, you will sell it…”.…"
""We would need a brave government to implement the needed reforms," Danske Bank economist Pasi Kuoppamaki said.
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But the chance of that happening decreased further on Friday, when social democrats replaced their leader, Finance Minister Jutta Urpilainen, with union boss Antti Rinne, who has advocated state take a bigger role in the economy."
"If you want your product to be perceived as one of the best quality choices among your competitors, you can ’t have the lowest price. Period! By the same token, if you have the lowest price (or one of the lowest prices), consumers will refuse to believe your product is high quality. Yes, if you have a well-known, quality brand name and then have a low price, consumers will not infer low quality. (Although if the price is low enough, they may suspect it ’s a knockoff .) But especially for new brands or moderately known brand names, the price you put on your product is a key indicator to consumers of its quality.Trechos retirados de "Setting profi able prices: a step-by-step guide to pricing strategy—without hiring a consultant" de Marlene Jensen.
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The consumer doesn ’t know your brand. (Even if you ’ve been around for a while, many to most won ’t know what your brand stands for.) They don ’t know what quality standards you have or haven ’t implemented.
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But they know that you know. You know better than anyone the quality of your product. So if you put a low price on it, the consumer will believe you know that a low price is all it ’s worth. If you put a higher price on it, the consumer will believe you know that a high price is what it ’s worth.[Moi ici: Voltar atrás e ler outra vez... então, quer ter produtos diferenciados e o preço mais baixo?]
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But . . . keep in mind that the consumer is not an idiot. If you price high but the consumer can tell (either before or after purchase) that your materials are substandard, you will pay a steep price for your deception. That price could be low sales, high returns (if the quality is evident only after purchase), and/or a high trashing of your product on Internet review sites."
" Market driven refers to a business orientation that is based on understanding and reacting to the preferences and behaviors of players within a given market structure. Driving markets, on the other hand, implies influencing the structure of the market and/or the behavior(s) of market players in a direction that enhances the competitive position of the business."Acrescentaria à frase final "in a direction that enhances the competitive position of the business, através de relações ganhar-ganhar entre vários actores intervenientes no ecossistema da procura."
"Specifically, we propose that driving markets entail changing the structure or composition of a market and/or the behavior(s) of players in the market."Ou sendo mais concreto:
"Accepting the market structure as a "given" means the focal business does not eliminate and/or modify the roles of existing industry players. Driving the market structure, in contrast, refers to a business proactively changing the composition of the players by, for example, buying them out or by getting new players to enter the industry (e.g., new distributors). A business may also change the market structure by fundamentally changing the roles performed by one or more players (e.g., getting a distributor to assem-ble/manufacture computers in addition to selling them)."Trechos retirados de "Market-Driven Versus Driving Markets"
"marketing is “the art and science of creating change (disequilibrium) in markets in such a way that the change benefits the firm (or an alliance of firms) [Moi ici: Prefiro "alliance of actors"], and consequently comparatively ‘disadvantages’ rivals”. In addition, Resource-Advantage Theory suggests that it is not enough for firms to passively respond to changing environments by looking for the best fit between the existing resources and market niches.Trechos retirados de "Market-Driving Organizations: A Framework"
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to achieve a superior business performance, firms need to actively influence the market rather than being only reactive to it (i.e., be capable of driving markets).
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Market-driving organizations may achieve greater performance than market-driven organizations by reshaping the structure of the market according to their own competencies and by exploiting the competitors’ weaknesses. [Moi ici: Prefiro "according to their own and allied-actor-partners competencies". Não é por causa dos concorrentes, é por causa das competências, dos recursos, das relações mobilizadas"]
"The basis of executive power is shifting from being in charge to being connected. New leaders understand that power with people is much more effective than power over people. It is about integrating the best of networked thinking and leveraging the new platforms for value creation."
"O índice de confiança dos empresários do turismo no setor para este verão, com 74 pontos, é o mais elevado de sempre, de acordo com o 45º Barómetro Academia do Turismo, a que o Dinheiro Vivo teve acesso em primeira mão. Há um ano, o mesmo índice valia 61,1 pontos e 2013 acabou por ser um dos melhores anos de sempre."Trecho retirado de "Este vai ser o melhor verão de sempre para o turismo português"
"If you do not understand your core (or cores), the root cause of your strategic differentiation, how you really earn economic profit (and why), and the boundaries of your core, then trying to do any-thing else is a waste of time. At off-site meetings with executives, I'm constantly surprised by how many relatively sophisticated companies seem to have lost a sense of their core - [Moi ici: O mesmo se passa nas PMEs, é difícil subir na escala de abstracção e apanhar o que está em causa] and how many have never even talked about it. If you're not sure who you are, it's hard to decide what you want to become and what it is worth.
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Don't Underestimate the Power of Focus
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In its own way, each of my three books has as its dominant theme the power of focus. Focus to grow sounds almost counterintuitive. But just as plants often must be cut back to concentrate their energy on fewer, stronger branches, so too, businesses must be pruned to counter their tendency to branch out more than they should. I'm constantly amazed by how often the correct first step to growth and expansion is to narrow the focus."
"O Centro de Engenharia Biológica (CEB) da Universidade do Minho vai debater o impacto da especialização inteligente da Região Norte e a transferência de valor para a economia.Isto faz-me lembrar os monumentos à treta. O dinheiro gasta-se e, no entanto, os resultados que se obtêm são folclore.
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[Moi ici: Estas coisas despertam o Diógenes dentro de mim, sempre à espera de poder apresentar a perspectiva mais cínica da vida] Esta iniciativa surge numa altura em que, no âmbito da iniciativa Norte 2020 (correspondente ao novo ciclo de apoios comunitários 2014-2020), se promove, junto dos atores regionais, [Moi ici: Como não recordar o "confesso que às vezes não sei se as empresas recorrem por iniciativa própria, com o recurso a fundos comunitários, ou se são as entidades de tecnologia e investigação que aliciam as PMEs a entrarem em projectos, com o argumento de que não pagarão nada, de que tudo será pago por projectos financiados"] um "crescimento inteligente, inclusivo e sustentável". O evento reunirá vários profissionais das áreas de biotecnologia e bioengenharia [Moi ici: A oferta reúne-se. Mais interessante seria desafiar a potencial procura a falar das suas aspirações, dos seus quereres e necessidades. Mais interessante seria pôr procura de projectos anteriores, empresários, a relatar os resultados positivos dos seus projectos conjuntos, seria o exemplo dos pares] para discutir o impacto da investigação na economia e clarificar a importância das tecnologias de futuro para a sociedade.
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O CEB conta atualmente com mais de 350 investigadores, de cerca de 30 diferentes nacionalidades, [Moi ici: Tanto investigador... precisam de ser pagos. Não será esse o propósito destes projectos? Arranjar financiamento que justifique o pagamento da estrutura?] e tem uma forte presença na indústria portuguesa e internacional, mantendo parcerias com instituições como MIT- Portugal, a Universidade de Harvard e a Universidade de Cambridge. Nos últimos 5 anos, o CEB publicou mais de mil artigos em revistas internacionais certificadas." [Moi ici: E quantos milhares de euros os parceiros de projectos já ganharam em vendas ou pouparam em custos? Os empresários não querem saber dos papers. Bastaria pedir os números dada a "forte presença na indústria portuguesa e internacional"]
"Customer satisfaction has become the most widely used metric in companies’ efforts to measure and manage customer loyalty. The assumption is simple and intuitive: Highly satisfied customers are good for business.
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However, the reality has not proven nearly so simple. In fact, we have found that if you look across industries at the correlation between companies’ customer-satisfaction levels for a given year and the corresponding stock performance of these companies for that same year, on average, satisfaction explains only 1% of the variation in a company’s market return.
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And academic research consistently finds that there is a positive, statistically significant relationship between satisfaction and a host of business outcomes such as customer retention, share of wallet, referrals and stock market performance. We ourselves have written numerous articles demonstrating this very fact.
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The problem, however, is that the relationship between customer satisfaction and customer spending behavior is very weak.
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High customer-satisfaction ratings are typically treated by managers as being universally good for business. Our findings indicate, however, that the benefits are not nearly so clear-cut.
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It turns out that the return on these investments is often trivial or even negative. Although we find that improved satisfaction can increase sales revenue, the additional costs frequently outweigh the benefits.
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While customer satisfaction and profitability are not mutually exclusive, they don’t have to be aligned, either. Managers typically have many competing alternatives for improving satisfaction. They could provide a better customer experience or offer more innovative products, for example. Not all alternatives will be profitable. Furthermore, not all customers can be profitably satisfied. Some are not willing to pay the necessary price for the level of service being offered. Others demand a level of service that more than offsets any revenue they provide. The bottom line is that there is no substitute for understanding the profit impact of your efforts to improve customer satisfaction.
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Given that higher satisfaction levels are believed to result in higher customer spending, we might expect a strong positive relationship between satisfaction and market share. The reality for many business sectors, however, is quite the opposite. In fact, research finds that high satisfaction is a strong negative predictor of future market share. [Moi ici: Bom para as PMEs em Mongo, se as tribos são cada vez mais vincadas e apaixonadas... so long Golias]
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The primary reason for this seemingly counterintuitive finding is that the broader a company’s market appeal relative to the offerings of competitors, the lower the level of satisfaction tends to be. Why? Gaining market share typically comes from attracting customers whose needs are not completely aligned with the company’s core target market. As a result, smaller niche companies are better able to serve their customers. Companies with a large market share, on the other hand, must by their very nature serve a more diverse set of customers.
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Should managers not care about customer satisfaction in the pursuit of market share growth? No — they should care. If market share is the goal, then managers need find the right balance between customer satisfaction levels and broad customer acceptance.
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The overriding reason that companies measure satisfaction is the belief that higher scores result in a greater share of a customer’s wallet. The unfortunate reality, however, is that our research indicates that knowing a customer’s satisfaction level tells you almost nothing about how she will divide her spending among the different brands used. As a result, changes in customer satisfaction levels are unlikely to have a meaningful impact on the share of category spending customers allocate with your brand.
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So while satisfaction is important, it does not mitigate the need for sound business strategy and fiscal oversight.
What is clear from our research is that there is not one right way to improve satisfaction. Different approaches are required depending upon the profiles of the company’s customers and the nature of the competitive environment. Moreover, it may even be necessary to accept lower average satisfaction levels in the pursuit of greater market share by appealing to a larger, less homogeneous customer base. This contradicts the message of many programs discussed in the popular business press regarding the relationship of satisfaction (and NPS) to business performance."
"“Toda a investigação devia ser feita em consonância com as empresas. É bom ter as universidades a estudar a diferenciação dos produtos portugueses para termos base científica que prove essa diferenciação e podermos mostrá-la aos clientes”O que em minha opinião riscou o disco foi este ponto:
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Na prática, ajudar as empresas a melhorar a produção, a conservação e a comercialização dos seus produtos, através de uma relação estreita com o mundo científico nacional."
"“Trata-se de valorizar a fruta nacional. E explicar por exemplo, por que razão as laranjas do Algarve são melhores do que as de Espanha”, acrescenta a ministra."Um pouco na linha desta ilusão:
"Têm aroma, sabor e cor, mas falta a verdade científica para ajudar a vender a fruta portuguesa a clientes estrangeiros e nacionais."Em relação à questão do confronto com Espanha... talvez a ministra possa ler "Strategy Is Not about the Competition":
"when leaders think of business as a war with their competitors—and many continue to do just that—they inevitably seek to beat their rivals in ways that don’t meaningfully enhance customer-perceived benefits—such as with product-feature frenzy or predatory pricing. Such moves rarely grow the total market and almost always produce lower margins and losing products."Por exemplo, em "Vinhos, têxtil e conservas tiveram de fazer as malas e conseguiram crescer durante a crise" pode ler-se:
"Em termos médios, o preço por litro exportado (2,21 euros) já é mais do dobro do da Espanha e está acima de países como a Itália ou a Austrália."O mesmo se passa no azeite, os preços do azeite português são superiores aos preços espanhóis.
"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." "