I tried to look at where did the kind of learning we do in schools, where did it come from? . . . It came from . . . the last and the biggest of the empires on this planet, [the British Empire].Of course, we like this explanation because it describes things as computers and machines. But more fundamentally, we like it because it points out that the three Rs were once the skills that workers needed to contribute to the most advanced economy of the time. As Mitra points out, the educational system of Victorian England was designed quite well for its time and place. But that time and place are no longer ours. As Mitra continued:
What they did was amazing. They created a global computer made up of people. It’s still with us today. It’s called the bureaucratic administrative machine. In order to have that machine running, you need lots and lots of people.
They made another machine to produce those people: the school. The schools would produce the people who would then become parts of the bureaucratic administrative machine. . . . They must know three things: They must have good handwriting, because the data is handwritten; they must be able to read; and they must be able to do multiplication, division, addition and subtraction in their head. They must be so identical that you could pick one up from New Zealand and ship them to Canada and he wo uld be instantly functional.
The Victorians were great engineers. They engineered a system that was so robust that it’s still with us to day, continuously producing identical people for a machine that no longer exists. . . . [Today] the clerks are the computers. They’re there in thousands in every office. And you have people who guide those computers to do their clerical jobs. Those people don’t need to be able to write beautifully by hand. They don’t need to be able to multiply numbers in their heads. They do need to be able to read. In fact, they need to be able to read discerningly.Recordar:
"Consumer surplus compares the amount a consumer would have been willing to pay for something to the amount they actually have to pay. If you would happily pay one dollar to read the morning newspaper but instead you get it for free, then you’ve just gained one dollar of consumer surplus.Trecho retirado de "The Seconde Machine Age"
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Do we want to increase consumer surplus? Then lower prices [Moi ici: Baixar preços? Então quer dizer que todos os economistas, políticos e paineleiros que estão contra a deflação, estão contra a gasolina mais barata, a informática mais barata, a comida mais barata, o grátis na internet, a Amazon, ... estão contra o aumento do consumer surplus] or more leisure might be signs of progress, even if they result in a lower GDP. And, of course, many of our goals are nonmonetary."
"O setor metalúrgico e metalomecânico exportou, no passado mês de outubro, cerca de 1400 milhões de euros, registando assim o valor mais elevado de sempre nas exportações da indústria. Este valor representa um crescimento de 24% [Moi ici: A gente até desconfia do valor] face ao período homólogo do ano anterior!"Trecho retirado de "Setor Metalúrgico E Metalomecânico Com Melhor Resultado Mensal De Sempre Em Exportações"
"For the better part of a century, the vinyl record reigned supreme as the most popular format for listening to recorded sounds.We are all weird!!!
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A testament to their unique charms, vinyl records survived the coming of the 8-track and the cassette tape, before being put out to pasture, more-or-less, by compact discs in the 1990s.
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When it seemed clear that analog formats, of which vinyl is one, would give way to digital, some consumers rushed out to buy CDs. Others scrambled to convert their sometimes massive libraries of vinyl records to mp3s.
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But now vinyl has seemingly risen from the grave.
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With vinyl resurgent, some consumers now want to convert their digital music back into analog format. Enter a new crop of entrepreneurs looking to make a buck by helping consumers retrofit their music collections. For a price, websites like vinyl-pressing.com, edsvinyl.com, and vinylrecorder.com allow consumers to convert their mp3 files into vinyl records."
"For the past several years, business have began migrating their advertising away from Yellow Pages and into online media. What they don’t realize is that by doing so, they’re now targeting the 22-year-old living at home, rather than his home-owning, Baby Boomer parents with more disposable income.Talvez não sejam só os discos de vinil a voltar do mundo dos mortos e a adquirir uma nova vida.
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Perhaps I’m stereotyping, but it makes my point. The old media vs. new media debate is not so black-and-white. In a recent study, 45 percent of consumers cited Yellow Pages as “the source I go to first for finding local business information”—just slightly ahead of search engines at 42 percent.
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These studies make it clear that both Yellow Pages and search engines are the go-to sources consumers use to shop locally."
"Messages do not contain their own meaning, yet we cannot get at the knowledge contained in a message without knowing what it means.Uma entrevista ""Vejo hoje pessoas mais confiantes no sector"" e vários temas.
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Human communications problems begin because we are not “blank slates.” We have no trouble attaching meaning to a signal, we do it all the time and find it is almost impossible to prevent, except when we are surprised or shocked. “What was that bang?” “What did he say?” So the message sender’s problem is to ensure that a specific meaning is attached rather than some other."
"Podemos de alguma forma dizer que após esta “depuração” de 25 anos o sector que resistiu é competitivo globalmente ou a reestruturação ainda não acabou?Acredito que, concluído este processo de reestruturação (ou já numa fase muito avançada), temos hoje uma ITV muito mais robusta, capaz de competir com êxito no mercado global. Um processo desta natureza nunca se encontra concluído, mas acredito que, nesta fase, o sector se encontra depurado de quase tudo (empresas, emprego, produtos, modelos de negócio) que não tinha condições de sobrevivência nas novas condições de funcionamento do sector, à escala global.""ainda não acabou?" - O que significa esta pergunta? Qual a concepção do mundo que permite a sua formulação desta forma?
"the punctuated nature of change tricks our pattern-recognizing minds into thinking that the world is more stable than it really isOu ainda, recordar Joe Calloway em "Becoming a Category of One,
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All competitive advantage is temporary. Some advantages last longer than others, but all sources of advantage have a finite shelf life
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We discovered that there is no one best strategy; [Moi ici: Apreciar Beinhocker acerca dos modelos de Lindgren a viverem o dilema do prisioneiro] rather, the evolutionary process creates an ecosystem of strategies – an ecosystem that changes over time in Schumpeterian gales of creative destruction."
"A mere 34% of the 772 directors surveyed by McKinsey in 2013 agreed that the boards on which they served fully comprehended their companies’ strategies. Only 22% said their boards were completely aware of how their firms created value, and just 16% claimed that their boards had a strong understanding of the dynamics of their firms’ industries."A sublinhar:
"“The first question I would ask boards is whether they are spending enough time and effort assessing the organization’s long-term strategy,”Trechos retirados de "Where Boards Fall Short"
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“Strategy is the fundamental challenge of the organization, and it should engage the entire board.” That collective effort is critical to ensuring the right long-term debates and decisions."
"you get what you reward. You attract the customers that respond to the way you act. You end up with what you tolerate. You build what your audience demands.
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You might not get the customers you deserve, but you will probably end up with the customers you attract."
"Not only are the the sheer number of independent contractors increasing, but so are the companies leveraging said workers. These companies are hiring contractors at scale to serve multiple functions across multiple industries. These enterprises are realizing how valuable independent workers can be in improving the bottom-line, accelerating the pace of innovation and outperforming fiercely-competitive rivals."Sempre que um técnico desempregado me fala do problema da idade como barreira ao arranjar novo emprego, levanto sempre a hipótese-oportunidade de experimentar a ia da prestação de serviços de consultoria de marketing, de manutenção, de informática, de ... para a maioria é uma possibilidade que nunca tinham equacionado mas quando as empresas têm estas contas...
"The Internet has revolutionized countless industries, from finance to fashion. Now it’s starting to revolutionize the food industry. The biggest change has been the ability to order online.Anonimamente, muito mal distribuído, como reza a citação, o futuro já anda por aí.
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They want it to be authentic, they want to know how it was produced, and they want it to be a shared experience,
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The newest trend is cooking convenience delivered to your door. Blue Apron is one of the biggest players. You order a dish and Blue Apron delivers all the ingredients for a fresh meal with top-quality ingredients.
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Saffron Fix delivers to your doorstep all the ingredients, spices, bread and rice to cook an Indian meal at home.
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The exact model will evolve over time. And especially for the next few years, all these models will co-exist. But eventually much more food will be online.
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As companies like Blue Apron and Saffron Fix vie for customers, restaurants, will have to rethink the true value they are adding for their customers."
