"Pensado e fabricado por humanos, de carne e osso"No entanto, acho que não vai ser preciso chegar a tal, recordar o exemplo do Japão que já está noutra maré:
- "Um mesmo processo automatizado é demasiado rígido para Mongo" (Canon e Toyota)
"Pensado e fabricado por humanos, de carne e osso"No entanto, acho que não vai ser preciso chegar a tal, recordar o exemplo do Japão que já está noutra maré:
"There have only been three other successful orbiter missions to Martian orbit: probes from the United States, Russia, and the European Space Agency. Even more impressive than India succeeding in its first attempt is the fact that Mangalyaan is the cheapest interplanetary mission ever undertaken. It cost $74 million; NASA’s Maven Mars mission cost 10 times as much."Como não recordar o velho lápis soviético.
"“I’m on a major kick — that spreadsheets have destroyed business. In my view, if you want to get ahead, and build wealth, you have to get over your delusion that something only has value if you can measure it. We invest in a weekly radio show about new Detroit companies, through a sponsorship. Nine out of 10 companies on the show are not ours. If it works, those companies’ business goes up, their square footage goes up (which benefits Gilbert’s real estate investments). You’ll never be able to measure it.”Lembram-se do último recorte da Viarco que coloquei aqui no blogue?
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“I compare it to learning to fly. There are visual flight rules and instrument flight rules. Some people say, I’m a metrics guy. Others say I don’t care about numbers. If you had a pilot who only does one, they’ll eventually crash the plane. You have to do both. You have to be willing to use spreadsheets. But you also have to be able to use your gut, your observations.”"
"Desde o início do ano, o número de produtos com o selo "Portugal Sou Eu" aumentou 71%,"Isto deve implicar pagar uma taxa qualquer e funcionar como receita para o Estado.
"Também se pretende abrir a participação à Associação Portuguesa das Empresas de Distribuição e à AHRESP - Associação da Hotelaria, Restauração e Similares de Portugal."Será que os restaurantes que aderirem só vão poder utilizar carne e peixe criados ou apanhados em Portugal? Vão deixar de poder apresentar pratos de bacalhau? Talvez possam já que os chocolates podem ostentar o símbolo... será que o ostentam nas tabletes com 80% de cacau?
"O selo criado para distinguir os produtos nacionais no estrangeiro"Realmente, qual o impacte deste selo relativamente aquele propósito inicial de trocar importações por produtos fabricados em Portugal, alguém sabe? Alguém se interessa?
"(1) marketing strategy should focus more on where to compete (rather than on how to compete); (2) making subjective market definitions or market innovations may be the key to growth; and (3) a starting point for business marketers wishing to outgrow their competitors is to increase the granularity of market definition to identify competitive arenas that are growing."Três proposições que merecem reflexão:
"Strategy tools are abstractions from reality that illuminate and identify some features and causal relations while simplifying or omitting others. So their usefulness depends on context, and their effectiveness changes with time.
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Strategy discussions are invariably burdened by resource-allocation agendas; actually, what’s labeled “strategic” is often what is politically protected by senior management, not what’s most valuable for a firm. Many a strategy discussion is actually about executives saying, “You aren’t going to cut my unit.”
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I think we don’t pay enough attention to the difference between strategy as resource allocation and strategy as insight generation. There is a yearly strategy process, which focuses on resource allocation. We should acknowledge it as such and better understand its pathologies. But we also need to take a fresh look at how we identify ways to improve a firm’s positioning and performance, by explicitly asking, “What insight-generating activities, tools, and frameworks would be useful?”"
"o número de startups criadas em Portugal aumentou 17% em consequência das novas regras, um acréscimo que levou à existência de mais 4500 empresas e 17.500 empregos no espaço de dois anos, num universo total de 5,5 milhões trabalhadores."Mesmo assim isto é visto de forma negativa:
"“Descobrimos que as empresas cuja entrada é induzida pela reforma tendem a ser pequenas, detidas por empreendedores com uma educação relativamente reduzida e operando em sectores de baixa tecnologia. Elas revelam uma menor probabilidade de conseguirem sobreviver nos primeiros dois anos após a entrada”.Recordo que em todo o mundo, e em especial na Europa, de Portugal à Suécia, quanto mais formação escolar menor a propensão para empreender, quem cria empresas tem, quase sempre, menor escolaridade que os seus empregados.
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Isto é, são os empreendedores com menor potencial de crescimento e que menos melhoram a produtividade na economia que acabam por aproveitar mais as facilidades trazidas pela “Empresa na hora”. Os outros, os com maior potencial, acabariam por criar a sua empresa de qualquer das maneiras."
"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."
"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." "