""Temos que ver também em Portugal se começamos a ter algum investimento público que de alguma maneira dê sustentabilidade a essas empresas","Impressionante... o investimento público é para servir as empresas, não o país. E mais, chamar investimento público a torrefacção de dinheiro de contribuintes futuros é todo um programa de fantochada.
"The complex problems we face nowadays go by many names: ‘social messes’, ‘wicked problems’ and ‘big hairy problems’; I like to call them ‘enigmatic problems’.Bonito e libertador!
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As we go about solving enigmatic problems, the ends and the means are not only unclear, they are also interdependent: as efforts to solve them proceed, the ends evolve as means are generated. Likewise, as means unfold, new ends become possible which, in turn, may demand new means. All of which invites an observation: that the enigmatic problems we face are comprised of features identical to those routinely found in the arts – including uncertainty, ambiguity, complexity, change, surprise, choice, subtlety, indeterminacy, uniqueness and the aforementioned interdependence between ends and means.
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Artists see the features of enigmatic problems not as obstacles, but as exciting opportunities; rather than fearing ambiguity, they seek it out; and rather than avoiding surprises, they embrace them. Might this mean that the enigmatic problems that permeate modern organizations can be treated as opportunities for artistry? I believe so, but only if we cross an oft-forbidden boundary and enter a world that has always been open to artists, but seldom to the rest of us: the world of qualitative thought and experience, where judgment and imagination take their place alongside quantitative analysis and deductive reasoning."
"o seu negócio não é low-cost? Então, agradeça aos membros low-cost o trabalho de "mineração" que fazem, eles criam os seus potenciais futuros clientes. Eles "ensinam-lhes" o bê-à-bá da actividade. Depois, alguns ficarão sempre por aí, mas outros ganharão uma paixão e sentirão uma necessidade genuína de subir para outros desafios. É aí que entra a sua empresa, dedicada a servir um grupo que quer mais do que o básico. Para isso, precisa de ter uma estratégia clara e estar alinhado com ela."Ontem, encontrei outra opinião a suportá-la:
"So do these budget operators spell the end for gyms as we know them? Steve Dick, sales and marketing director at Virgin Active, doesn't think so. He believes there is a place in the market for both budget and high-end gyms. "It gives the consumer a wider range of choices. Budget gyms will attract first-time exercisers into the market and over time these people may migrate to clubs such as ours," he says."Teoricamente, as barreiras à entrada são as mais baixas. A pessoa entra, experimenta e as que quiserem aprofundar terão de evoluir para outras ofertas.
"Operating margins will be below previous targets — about 4 per cent, well below last year. The shares dropped sharply.
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Expectations were clearly too positive. Zalando’s shares have already run up 11 per cent in July so far. Once at a discount to Asos, Zalando trades at similar price to earnings and enterprise value to sales multiples. The good news is that Zalando’s sales are still growing faster than Asos despite the former’s greater size. Second-quarter sales should still increase about 34 per cent, well above expectations.
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Growth is definitely trendier than value among investors these days. The German retailer’s margins, though, had better stabilise soon or more worries will creep in."
"Numa sociedade que esteja estruturada em função das políticas do bem-estar, a assimetria entre contribuintes e beneficiários forma tensões que se tornam incontroláveis quando os benefícios se tornarem superiores aos contributos. Será inevitável e destruidora a tempestade que se forma quando os dispositivos das políticas sociais passarem a ser motivo de guerra civil.
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Numa política que esteja estruturada em função da compra e venda de votos (compra com políticas sociais, venda pelo preço da garantia de direitos e da protecção de redes de interesses), será inevitável a formação das assimetrias, internas e externas, que geram défices orçamentais, défices externos e dívidas públicas, movimentos de capitais e transferências de activos – até que o voto se torna indiferente.
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Tudo isto se viu e se vê na Grécia, em França, em Itália, em Espanha e em Portugal,"
"The number of UK food suppliers and farmers struggling to stay afloat has leapt more than 50% in 12 months, as a bitter supermarket price war continues to take its toll."Os supermercados grandes do Reino Unido foram colocados no espaço do mercado do meio-termo com a entrada das lojas discount num extremo e do retorno do comércio de proximidade no outro extremo:
"The researchers said there was a “new savage landscape” in food retailing and suppliers were bearing the brunt of the big supermarkets’ drastic turnaround plans, aimed at clawing back market share from discount retailers such as Aldi and Lidl.A resposta destes supermercados grandes é: trading-down!
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All of the big four supermarkets – Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury’s and Morrisons – have struggled with falling sales as shoppers’ habits change, with many people ditching the traditional big weekly shop in favour of several visits to smaller local shops and discounters."
"The price wars have kept grocery prices falling constantly since last autumn, bringing prices down by 1.7% in a year, retail researchers Kantar Worldpanel said last month"A paranóia com o preço como factor competitivo é tão grande que já falam nisto:
"“Some are even looking into launching their own food manufacturing facilities to give them even tighter control over costs and the ability to offer still more aggressive pricing – signalling yet another nightmare scenario on the horizon for the UK food supply chain.”"PME a trabalhar para empresas muito grandes... dupla precaução. Sempre!
"sites like Amazon try to provide a solution for nearly every product, and therefore can't offer up a custom or focused experience for very specific products or shoppers. Today, a number of niche sites are creating new kinds of shopping experiences that change the way people discover products.Em todo o lado esta evolução... entretanto, há os que acham que é tudo uma questão de estímulos, apoios e outras mezinhas.
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This site is not only focused on a very specific audience, but a very personal and intimate product as well.
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finding unique ways of selling a product in order to cater to niche markets
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The company provides a wide variety of items — all of them themed for the company's specific audience. This is a classic example of finding a market, and building whatever product happens to appeal to them.
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What all of these sites share is focus — and this allows these smaller services to compete with the do-it-all giants. This is a powerful lesson and can certainly be applied to other industries."
"Working Hours Mean Working HoursTRETA!!!! TRETA completa!!!
In German business culture, when an employee is at work, they should not be doing anything other than their work. Facebook, office gossip with co-workers, trolling Reddit for hours, and pulling up a fake spreadsheet when your boss walks by are socially unacceptable behaviors. Obviously, in the United States these behaviors are frowned up on by management. But in Germany, there is zero tolerance among peers for such frivolous activities."
"When a German is at work, they are focused and diligent, which in turn leads to higher productivity in a shorter period of time."Isto é tão básico! Tão errado, tão ... treta!!!
"Na semana passada, ao procurar explicar o conceito de produtividade a um grupo de operários, um deles saiu-se com este exemplo: "O que está a dizer é que se pegarmos num metro quadrado de chapa e o utilizarmos para fazer um guarda-lamas de uma motorizada, teremos mais rendimento do que se o utilizarmos para fazer pás, ou enxadas." Eloquente!!!"
"My point is not that all these artisans and hobbyists and their shop-scale technology are collectively producing enough 3D-printed output to put a dent in the overall economy. For me, the most important “tipping point” isn’t about how many manufacturers have changed, it’s about how many minds have. Thanks to more accessible technology, we are now reaching a critical mass of people who, when they think about how things are made, think in a different way. You could say they are thinking in 3D."Um mundo bem diferente do vómito industrial da produção massificada para o consumidor domesticado e treinado para comprar o padrão que lhe colocam na prateleira.
""Estes resultados são evidências de que o universo empresarial em Portugal é resiliente e que está em recuperação com alguma sustentabilidade. 2013 e 2014 foram os melhores anos de nascimentos desde 2009. E desde 2013 que o número de insolvências tem vindo a descer""
"""o facto de a grande maioria delas [PME de construção] ser de carácter regional, o que provou que tinham a dimensão adequada e, por isso, conseguiram sobreviver; e porque eram e são empresas especialistas, que estão focadas em nichos de mercado"."E comparar com "Só especulo"...
"Or, derrière ces ETI,[entreprises de taille intermédiaire] il y a un enjeu central. En matière d’emploi notamment. « Seules 5 % des entreprises françaises ont plus de 10 salariés, alors qu’elles sont 10 % au Royaume-Uni, 18 % en Allemagne, 24 % aux Etats-Unis. Si nous arrivions à 10 % d’entreprises de plus de 10 salariés, on pourrait créer 400 000 emplois net »,[Moi ici: Como se fosse só aumentar e pronto! E o mercado não muda? E o tipo de gestão não muda? E a proposta de valor não tem de mudar? E o propósito de uma empresa é mesmo criar emprego? Em vez de querer copiar modelos estrangeiros melhor fariam em seguir o exemplo austríaco, mais vale um pássaro na mão...]
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[Moi ici: O Cortes acha que sou eu que sou esquisito com esta história dos impostos] Facilité dans l’acte de création d’entreprise, dynamisme du capitalrisque et dispositifs fiscaux avantageux aident les nouveaux venus, relève l’étude. Mais c’est après que le bât blesse. La moitié de ces sociétés ont disparu au bout de cinq ans ! Pourquoi ? Sans surprise, charges trop lourdes et complexité administrative sont les bêtes noires des petits patrons
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[Moi ici: Cá está o caso referido na parte I] Autre épouvantail : les seuils sociaux. Celui des 50 salariés à partir duquel l’entreprise doit se doter d’un comité d’entreprise (CE) et d’un comité hygiène, sécurité et conditions de travail (CHSCT) – désormais regroupés au sein de la délégation unique du personnel (DUP) – est jugé redoutable. « Il y a deux fois plus d’entreprises de 49 que de 50 salariés », note M. Andrès. A l’Insee, on relativise ce constat, en soulignant que les entreprises ont tendance à se « couper » en entités juridiques plus petites afin
de contourner les seuils.
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La course à la croissance se heurte aussi aux difficultés de management que suscite un changement d’échelle.
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« Croître signifie revoir l’organisation de la société, déléguer une partie du management, donc se remettre en cause »
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[Moi ici: O tal, desapareçam, saiam da frente, não atrapalhem] « les petits patrons n’attendent pas d’aides ou de subventions. Juste de ne pas être freinés par des contraintes démotivantes. »"
"Novas inscrições nos centros de emprego voltam a subir"
"Em Junho inscreveram-se no IEFP 53.650 desempregados, mais 6% do que no mesmo mês de 2014. Fim de contratos a prazo motivou 22 mil novos registos."Depois, usam este gráfico manhoso:
"Not all bubbles, it would appear, are equally bad. According to two new papers, the crucial variable that separates relatively harmless frenzies from disastrous ones is debt.
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Writing for the National Bureau of Economic Research, Oscar Jorda, Moritz Schularick and Alan Taylor examine bubbles in housing and equity markets over the past 140 years. The most dangerous, they conclude, are housing bubbles fuelled by credit booms. The least troublesome are equity bubbles that do not rely on debt. Five years after the bursting of a debt-laden housing bubble, the authors find, GDP per person is nearly 8% lower than after a “normal” recession (ie, one that is not accompanied by a financial crisis). In contrast, five years after a stockmarket crash, GDP per person is only 1% or so lower. If the stock bubble comes alongside a big rise in debt, the damage to GDP per person is 4%.
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In a paper for the Centre for Economic Policy Research, Markus Brunnermeier and Isabel Schnabel take an even longer view, examining 400 years of asset-price bubbles. Be it tulips, land, housing, derivatives or shares, they find that the consequences of a bursting bubble depend less on the type of asset than on how it is financed. High leverage is the telltale sign of trouble."
"Ten years ago, the tourist board of Zell am See in Austria made a terrific call. According to the Qur’an, paradise looks like a lake surrounded by snow-capped mountains – so they started promoting their village to travel agencies in the Middle East. Now, the area receives 70,000 visitors from the Gulf States every year. Photographer Marieke van der Velden joins the tourists"Racional típico de empreendedor, tão bem descrito pela effectuation.
"entrepreneurs are indeed Effectual thinkers who start with a given set of Means and find new and different Ends, which are not necessarily pre-determined. Entrepreneurs in her studies follow the adage “If I can control the future, I do not need to predict it”."
"So what can Greece do? It really has only one option—to make the economy more productive and, above all, to export more. It’s easy to focus on Greece’s huge pile of debt, but, according to Yannis Ioannides, an economist at Tufts University, “debt is ultimately the lesser problem. Productivity and the lack of competitive exports are the much more important ones.”.
"There are structural issues that make this challenging. Greece is never going to be a manufacturing powerhouse: almost half of all Greek manufacturers have fewer than fifty employees, which limits productivity and efficiency, since they don’t enjoy economies of scale."Um mindset típico do século XX, em que só há uma forma de competir: o preço.
"As micro, pequenas e médias empresas (PME) portuguesas representam 99,9% do tecido empresarial português"Como se o calçado, o têxtil, o mobiliário, a cerâmica, ... repousassem nas economias de escala para exportar mais e ganhar a preferência dos clientes.
"And reform doesn’t mean Greece needs to abandon the things that make it distinctive. In fact, in the case of exports, the country has important assets that it hasn’t taken full advantage of. Greek olive oil is often described as the best in the world. Yet sixty per cent of Greek oil is sold in bulk to Italy, which then resells it at a hefty markup. Greece should be processing and selling that oil itself, and similar stories could be told about feta cheese and yogurt;"
