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Alguns trechos:
Acho sempre a última frase:
"The product/service does not creat the job."Uma espécie de afronta ao pensamento tão em voga junto da tríade keynesiana: a produção cria a sua própria procura.
"The product/service does not creat the job."Uma espécie de afronta ao pensamento tão em voga junto da tríade keynesiana: a produção cria a sua própria procura.
"Uma medida em sentido contrário foi a redução do IRC, por beneficiar quem não tem concorrência e já lucra mais." [Moi ici: Quer isto dizer que quem exporta não tem lucros? Quer isto dizer que as empresas não precisam de capital para investirem e criarem emprego?]Estes bem-intencionados economistas passam por cima dos números da evolução das exportações desde 2005, com taxas de crescimento entre as mais elevadas da zona euro e acreditam que só com apoios do Estado é que as empresas podem conquistar quotas de mercado no exterior.
"Em Portugal, têm proliferado os casos de incompetência, de influência de grupos de interesse, de corrupção, de sobreposição de objectivos políticos a critérios económicos, etc."Pessoalmente, acredito que a quantidade de malandros é bem menor do que aquilo que se suspeita. Acredito sim é que o Estado não tem informação suficiente para tomar boas decisões, nem nunca terá.
"Uma amiga saiu da da aula de hidroginástica , chega ao cacifo encontrando-o arrombado e totalmente vazio. Staff nem toalha extra oferece..."Associei logo a situação a um bom exemplo, para incluir nesta série de postais. Empresas que se concentram na eficiência e, por isso minimizam a área "Joint Sphere":
"Vou usar este tweet como incógnito no blogue. É o low-cost"E a cena ainda piorou mais ainda, por mensagem directa o autor do tweet tornou a história ainda mais picante. Identificou o nome da organização... uma que tenta passar uma imagem de distinção e superioridade face à concorrência.
"Business leaders must steer away from simplistic “strategies” such as cutting costs to meet a margin target, bundling products to increase cross-sell, or buying the number 4 or 5 player to become number 1 or 2. And they must refocus their efforts on addressing the fundamentals of steering a company:Trecho retirado de "Long-Termism Is Just as Bad as Short-Termism"
- What businesses should we be in and how do we add value to them?
- Who are our target customers and what is our value proposition to them?
When management of current performance and future investment is guided by distinctive, compelling answers to these fundamental questions, it produces profits that are truly earned. And the more these fundamentals guide business leaders’ decisions and actions, the more sustainable our companies’ growth and profits will be — and the less their leaders are compelled to rob the future to achieve today’s results or sacrifice the short term in order to build for tomorrow."
- What capabilities make us best at how we add value to our individual businesses and how well they deliver their value propositions?
"It takes discipline to intentionally leave something incomplete, so that others may complete it.Isto pode traduzir-se em, por exemplo, um produto minimalista que permite customização posterior, ou um produto descarregado de atributos e mais atributos mas focado numa resposta às necessidades de um grupo-alvo.
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The best innovators know what visual artists and neuroscientists know: there is nothing more powerful than the ability of the human mind to create meaning from missing information. Whatever form your idea takes–strategy, product, service, startup–if you want it to “tip,” you might just want to make it more about less."
""O compromisso foi muito importante, não só porque se conseguiu fazer um aumento do salário mínimo, até acima daquela que era a expectativa de muitas pessoas, mas também porque se conseguiu ligar atualizações futuras do salário mínimo à produtividade do país", congratulou-se."Perguntem-lhes, com bons modos, como se vocês fossem muito burros, com genuína ingenuidade, como é que decidiram medir a produtividade do país.
"One of the United States’ defining – and disheartening – economic trends over the last 40 years has been real-wage stagnation for most workers.Há qualquer coisa neste artigo que não bate certo.
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the absence of real-wage growth is a major factor behind the stagnation of family incomes.
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Many influential economists are now worried that the US faces anaemic growth and “secular stagnation,” owing to a persistent gap between aggregate demand and full employment. Stagnant middle-class incomes imply weak aggregate demand, which in turn means slack labour markets and stagnant wages for most workers.
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Porter and Rivkin are not calling on businesses simply to pay their workers more. Instead, they are urging businesses to engage in a “strategic, collaborative” push to improve education and training to raise the skill levels of their workers.
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The reality is different. US productivity has been growing at a respectable pace for two decades. The problem is that productivity gains have not translated into commensurate wage increases for the typical worker or income growth for the typical family.
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According to standard economic theory, real wages should track productivity. As Lawrence Mishel of the Economic Policy Institute has documented, this was the case from 1948 until about 1973. Since then, real wages for the typical worker have flat-lined, while productivity has continued to climb. Mishel calculates that productivity increased 80.4% from 1948 to 2011, while median real wages rose only 39% – almost none of the wage growth occurred during the last four decades.
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Strong productivity growth is an important policy goal. But it is not enough to increase most workers’ wages or most families’ incomes.
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Some 20 years ago, Alan Blinder of Princeton University corralled a number of economists, including me, to examine existing studies on the link between profit-sharing and productivity. The overwhelming majority of the studies found a strong positive effect.
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America’s long-run living standards and economic competitiveness depend not just on productivity growth, but also on how that growth is shared. More equitable sharing of profits with America’s workers and their families would do much to address the worrisome stagnation of wages and middle-class incomes in recent decades."
"On the other side, we have a CFO, who has been given the mandate to cut down on cuts. This is fair enough in tough times, but the problem is that the CFO and his alliance do not really know much about innovation. They cut too deep. They lose their patience. No wonder. You get immediate results by cutting costs and – if successful – you have to wait 3-7 years to see the results of innovation. If you don’t know how innovation works, this becomes a no-brainer."
"His most provocative thesis, excerpted in a popular WSJ column, declares that "competition is for losers" and entrepreneurs should embrace monopolies. This is an ingenious framing device—just controversial enough to arouse debate, but commonsense enough to make an incrementalist acknowledge its virtue. Thiel is not suggesting that capitalism is bad. He's saying that, precisely because capitalism is wonderful for consumers, it's hell for companies. Truly competitive industries, like Manhattan restaurants, see their profits gobbled by rivals and fickle eaters."Esta manhã li um texto em que o autor defendia que quanto maior um conselho de administração, quanto mais membros integrar, maior será a tendência desse conselho para não arriscar, para escolher projectos menos arriscados.
"Large corporations with small boards (around nine to 10 directors) outperformed their peers on shareholder return by 8.5 percentage points, while firms with large boards (13 to 14) underperformed peers by 10.85 percentage points,"A não ser que... essas empresas consigam remover muito do risco dos seus projectos.
"The best businesses compete on value, not price. In many situations, world class businesses have higher prices than that of substitute competitive offerings, but they differentiate their value beyond simple product attributes to incorporate other elements, such as service, into the offering.Trechos retirados de "Best Practices to Sell on Value Rather than Price"
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Successful organizations identify drivers of value from their customers’ perspective and work from the market back in to their business to determine and quantify how those drivers create value for customers. They then work hard to train their sales force to sell this value to customers effectively.
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almost every B2B industry today has a perceived “low cost” player or players that consistently underbid the market in an effort to win on price.
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To combat these low-cost competitors, successful businesses must sell on value.
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Segment your market carefully. While some customers and some transactions will always depend primarily on price, in every market, you will always find some customers and situations who care more about value than price. Success requires a determined effort to identify these customers and situations.
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Understand exactly how you impact your customers’ bottom lines and quantify that value in dollars.
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Train your sales force on these elements of value."
"In recent years, many companies responded to the challenging economy by approaching competition from a financial perspective. Business owners strove to keep their organizations as lean as possible, to optimize efficiency, and minimize the risk of losing business to a rival who offered lower prices."No entanto, há os minoritários que decidem seguir outro caminho, quase uma blasfémia:
"But at the same time, some companies launched products and services - not all of them true necessities - which became must-have items despite being priced at the high end of their markets.Os primeiros, ainda que não o pareçam, são como aqueles espaços Grab & Go, templos da transacção, honestos mas assépticos. Os segundos, estão disponíveis para a empatia e personalização:
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What enabled those businesses to zig as the market overall zagged? In many cases, their driving success was not in sales, but in storytelling. Their revenue ran counter to market trends because they created a narrative that integrated those products and services into the lives and identities of their target customers."
"Share the story of the personal interests, challenges, or pain points that led you to develop your products or services. That shows your prospects that you have some common experiences and goals--that you “get” who they are and what they need. “People want to feel good when they make purchasing decisions."Recentemente, numa empresa, propusemos o seguinte lead para o começo da primeira história:
"Lembra-se daquela história sobre areia suíça vendida à Arábia Saudita? Era uma areia especial. Recentemente tivemos a história do petróleo argelino vendido à Venezuela. Era um petróleo especial. E uma empresa portuguesa começar a vender peles para a pátria das peles de alta qualidade? Sim, uma empresa portuguesa começar a vender peles para Itália... devem ter algo de especial, não?"
"that interactions are situations in which the interacting parties are involved in each other’s practices. [Moi ici: Não é uma mera transacção, não basta ir à prateleira buscar um produto padrão, não basta disponibilizar as instalações, é preciso calçar os sapatos do outro] The core of interaction is a physical, virtual, or mental contact, such that the provider creates opportunities to engage with its customers’ experiences and practices and thereby influences their flow and outcomes. Opportunities for interacting are natural in service encounters but may be created in goods marketing contexts too, such as through order taking, logistics, problem diagnosing, and call centers..Interaction is a dialogical process. Customer and provider processes merge into a coordinated, interactive process in which both actors are active, such as when a customer orders a vacation from a tour operator. In direct interactions, the processes are simultaneous and intertwined....the role of the customer and the provider in value creation and co-creation depend on the sphere in which potential and real value are being created. Only in a joint sphere is co-creation of value between the firm and the customer possible....Because value is created in usage, interactions make the value creation process potentially accessible to the provider. If the service provider manages to make use of this opportunity, it may take part in the customer’s value creation process as a co-creator."O esquema que se segue é fundamental:
"How do you get employees to behave in ways that differentiate your brand to the people that matter most to your business: customer prospects, clients, partners, colleagues, and recruits?Trecho retirado de "Tell Your Team What Customers Should Say About Them"
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Too many companies are still trying to create thick manuals that lay out every possible scenario and a corresponding brand-appropriate response — an “if they do this, you do that” kind of approach. Very reactive.
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With the world a messy place filled with unexpected situations, it’s just not possible to anticipate everything. (I’d argue it’s not even desirable.) So if you can’t script every interaction, what are some ways to drive a consistent customer experience from a diverse range of employees across an even more varied range of interactions? ... You have to work from the outcomes back. And the best way to do that is to work back and from a single question: What do you want them to say after they walk away?"
"The more important the outcome of a decision, the more people will resist using evidence to make it."Foi dela que me recordei ao ler este trecho de Dave Gray:
"The more important the decision, the less informed the decision-maker will be.
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The more important a decision, the higher it will typically be escalated in an organization. The higher it goes, the more it will be removed and abstracted from the actual situation and the problem that needs solving. This means decisions are escalated to people who know less and less about what’s actually going on."
"No topo das prioridades dos empresários contactados pelo Diário Económico, está o maior apoio às pequenas e médias empresas (PME) e, em particular, ao fomento da criação de emprego.
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por incentivos ao reforço da competitividade e pela maior capacidade de atrair investimentos."
"Outras medidas passam ainda pelo alívio da carga fiscal das empresas,"E de onde vem o dinheiro para os apoios, os fomentos e os incentivos?
"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." "