interessante ver o BE a sujar as mãos e a consciência com esta cena de que o rendimento ñ vai ser beliscado. É repetir ad nauseum— Carlos P da Cruz (@ccz1) February 3, 2016
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interessante ver o BE a sujar as mãos e a consciência com esta cena de que o rendimento ñ vai ser beliscado. É repetir ad nauseum— Carlos P da Cruz (@ccz1) February 3, 2016
"Ainda ontem à noite ao fazer zapping pelos canais apanhei a ex-ministra, julgo que ainda eurodeputada, Maria João Rodrigues, em plena lengalenga que eu já julgava obsoleta.Lembrem-se que para este anónimo da província a causa raiz dos problemas portugueses que levaram ao descalabro das contas públicas tiveram origem na entrada da China no comércio mundial e não no fim do escudo:
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Dizia a técnica que os alemães tinham de aumentar os seus salários para que os europeus do sul pudessem exportar mais para a Alemanha."
"German firms, producing high-tech, high value-added, high-priced and mostly very complex manufacturing goods, do not directly compete with Spanish, Portuguese, Greek or even most Italian firms, which are specializing in lower-tech, lower value-added, low-price and less complex goods (Simonazzi et al. 2013). German firms are price-setters and dominate their niche markets, while Greek and Portuguese firms instead compete with low-cost Asian producers - on costs (but not just labor costs) - and get pushed out from their markets by their Chinese competitors (Straca 2013). [Moi ici: Segue-se algo que só vi escrito por mim e ao arrepio dos gurus tugas... lembrem-se do meu marcador gato vs rato] The upshot is that real-life competition in oligopolistic markets cannot be reduced to just unit-labor-cost competition - whatever the textbooks want us to believe. And if one insists on focusing on unit labor costs, then there is no reason why one should not also look at unit capital costs (or profit margins), as is argued by Felipe and Kumar (2011); oligopolistic firms might as well compete on profit margins."E ainda:
"Flassbeck and Lapavitsas argue in favor of higher German wages (and higher German inflation), just like Wren-Lewis (2016), in the mistaken belief that this will lower Germany’s cost competitiveness, reduce its trade surplus, and thereby rebalance the Eurozone as a whole. German exports and imports, as I argued above, are not very sensitive to changes in relative unit labor costs, however, and hence there will be only a limited amount of expenditure switching (away from German products and toward foreign goods), as has also been convincingly shown by Schröder (2015). Let me repeat for clarity’s sake that I am strongly in favor of higher nominal wage growth (in excess of labor productivity growth plus 2%) in Germany. It will definitely help Germany. But it will not help the crisis-countries of the Eurozone."
"Recusar um cliente que quer pôr o seu nome no nosso produto e compra 50 mil pares para defender uma marca que vende poucos pares é difícil. Aconteceu-me isso duas vezes. Recusei com a força da ambição de fazer a marca vingar e vir a ter melhores margens no futuro."E este outro:
""Apostámos na exclusividade do produto. Tivemos clientes como a Scholl Retail, que quis vender os nossos sapatos para a Dr. Scholl, e recusámos, conscientes de que ficávamos a perder em encomendas, no imediato, em nome do reconhecimento futuro da nossa identidade, e era essencial assumir que tínhamos deixado de trabalhar para private label (outras marcas)". refere o gestor."Dois exemplos concretos do que escrevi aqui em Agosto de 2008, "The Most Important Orders are...":
"Once markets and their characterístics are agreed, a company starts to gain control of its strategy. Then it is able to judge whether a piece of business fits its strategic direction. Thus, from there on in,.
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the most important orders are the ones to which a company says 'no'..
These mark the boundaries by declaring the segments of a market in which a company decides it does not wish to compete. Whithout this level of clarity, all orders are deemed to be equally attractive. By definition that cannot be. But without a mechanism for knowing how to judge, appropriate decisions cannot be made.""
"what is learned out of necessity is inevitably more powerful than the learning that comes easily."E:
"These are David's opportunities: the occasions in which difficulties, paradoxically, turn out to be desirable. The lesson of the trickster tales is the third desired difficulty: the unexpected freedom that comes from having nothing to lose. The trickster [Moi ici: Interessante o uso desta palavra. Recordar como usamos a palavra batota e batoteiro] gets to break the rules."Como se refere no postal acima mencionado:
"What do we mean when we call something a disadvantage? Conventional wisdom holds that a disadvantage is something that ought to be avoided - that it is in a setback or a difficulty that leaves you worse off than you would be otherwise. But that is not always the case."Aquilo que para uns é visto como uma desvantagem, pode ser trabalhado por outros como uma vantagem. Agora, recordo estes postais "Do concreto para o abstracto e não o contrário" e ""analisamos os meios que temos e imaginamos futuros possíveis" (parte II)" e mesmo o recente ""analogia para muitas PME"".
"Depois da Bimby, depois dos smartphones, depois das cápsulas de café, depois de vendidos 65 mil bilhetes para os Rolling Stones em menos de 48 horas, mais um exemplo para fazer pensar quem acredita que a única variável que atrai os consumidores é o preço mais baixo:Por isso, sempre que vejo empresas com marca própria a apostarem nos descontos para vender, penso no "volume is vanity, profit is sanity" e penso que alguém está a ser preguiçoso, que alguém desistiu de tentar seduzir os clientes, proporcionando-lhes mais valor potencial, e optou pela receita do curto prazo, o desconto.
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"A Tupperware Portugal foi nomeada Country of the Year, pelo seu desempenho no ano de 2013 em que conseguiu um crescimento de dois dígitos pelo segundo ano consecutivo."
"Na prática, "as famílias aproveitam as promoções para o que precisam, otimizando as compras sem necessariamente comprar mais em resultado das promoções".Trechos retirados de "Retalho. Quase metade das vendas já são feitas com descontos"
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Os números não enganam. Numa análise aos fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG ) sem frescos, em que se retira o valor das promoções, a Kantar conclui que o valor real do mercado está a cair globalmente (-2,6%) até outubro. E se analisarmos os efeitos das promoções para um conjunto de 154 marcas FMCG, a Kantar conclui que apenas 50% conseguem crescer em volume. O que aconteceu é que "a venda incremental (gerada pela promoção adicional às vendas) deixou de existir e começou-se a "comer" a venda-base, estivéssemos ou não em promoção",
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"as promoções assentam essencialmente em produtos de marca e não de marca branca", razão por que em crise os produtos de marca branca tenham perdido quota.
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"O natural é que o produto mais barato fosse o da marca branca, mas já não é." É certo que as promoções fizeram com que muitas pessoas regressassem ao consumo da marca de fabricante, mas as coisas complicam-se se a promoção é levada a volumes mínimos críticos, abaixo dos quais a viabilidade do produto deixa de existir"."[Moi ici: Quando a distribuição grande tem tanto poder sobre as marcas que fazem parte da Centromarca, quer dizer que estas não têm trabalhado a sua relação com os clientes dos donos das prateleiras. Os consumidores são os únicos capazes de vergar, de mandar nos poderosos donos das prateleiras. E os consumidores estão disponíveis para serem surpreendidos, para serem seduzidos por produtos inovadores, por ofertas com mais valor potencial, basta ver os exemplos acima. Receio que muitas empresas FMCG apostem mais no curto-prazo, e ainda continuem fieis aos modelos do Normalistão.]
"“As long as this overcapacity remains, nothing will change.”Agora, imaginem ainda que apesar da sobre-capacidade, apesar da quebra da procura e da erosão da procura no longo prazo, os agentes a operar no mercado resolvem continuar a aumentar a capacidade de produção.
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But as long as overcapacity remains in such markets, most of the efforts to obtain better prices will not be very effective. The answer here lies not in vain attempts to raise prices, but in cutting capacity. This means that the complex interplay between price and capacity is a top management issue of highest priority."
"England’s dairy farmers will see income fall by almost half this year, evidence that the global milk crisis is far from over.
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Dairy farmers across Europe are struggling with a collapse in prices after a global oversupply of milk was compounded by slowing demand in China and Russia’s ban on EU dairy in retaliation for sanctions.
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“There’s too much milk in the world,” said Robbie Turner, head of European markets at Rice Dairy International, a risk management advisory firm in London. “There are people who are hard for cash,” and prices are likely to remain low for at least the next six months, he said.
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Low prices are “decimating” the U.K. dairy industry and a large number of farmers will go out of business, the National Farmers’ Union said this week. Average farm-gate milk prices in the U.K. from March to November were 20 percent lower than in 2014, according to Defra.
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Even though prices have fallen, farmers are still churning out more milk. One incentive: the end of quotas last year that carried fines for over-production.
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In England and Wales, milk output from March to November was 6 percent higher than a year earlier, according to Defra’s report. EU milk deliveries from January through November were 2.2 percent higher than the prior year, with the biggest increases coming from Ireland, the Netherlands and Belgium.
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Earnings for pig producers are expected to plunge 46 percent from last year."
Recuem a 2011. Recuem aos tempos em que Sócrates chefiava um governo de gestão e as eleições que colocaram Passos Coelho no governo ainda não tinham acontecido.Se há coisa q me tira do sério é eu, anónim eng d província, fazer previsões contrárias às dos gurus economistas tugas e o temp dar-me razão— Carlos P da Cruz (@ccz1) February 1, 2016
"Redução da TSU é «muito útil para a economia»O que é que este anónimo da província escrevia aqui no blogue na mesma altura?
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Mas tem de ser implementada «com cuidado e sem favorecer o sector não transaccionável», defende Augusto Mateus"
BTW, o texto original, referido aqui, foi escrito num café em Valpaços.
- "Se me vendem a redução da TSU para tornar as empresas que exportam mais competitivas não engulo. Tirando o caso das commodities, associadas a grandes empresas, o preço não é o order-winner das nossas exportadoras. ...
- Se me venderem a redução da TSU para facilitar a vida às empresas que vivem do mercado interno concordo, o grosso do emprego está aqui e estas empresas vão viver tempos terríveis, o aumento futuro do desemprego virá sobretudo daqui, e tudo o que for feito para lhes aliviar o nó na corda que vai asfixiando o pescoço das empresas será bem vindo.
- Se me venderem a redução da TSU para capitalizar as empresas concordo."
"Quanto mais um sector económico da economia portuguesa é aberto ao exterior, à concorrência internacional, menor é o aumento do desemprego:Ontem li "A reação das empresas portuguesas à crise económica e financeira: principais choques e canais de ajustamento" estudo publicado pelo Banco de Portugal.
"O emprego evoluiu de forma mais favorável nos sectores transaccionáveis.
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Entre os sectores que apresentam variações percentuais do emprego mais positivas ... estão alguns dos mais transaccionáveis e com elevados graus de abertura""
"Deste modo, apesar de ter havido uma moderação no crescimento salarial, a maior parte do ajustamento fez-se à custa de reduções significativas do emprego e alterações na sua composição.Alguém se retrata?
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A desagregação por setor, dimensão de empresa e principal mercado (externo ou interno) mostra que o impacto negativo da crise foi particularmente sentido em empresas muito pequenas, em setores como a construção, energia ou o comércio e em empresas que vendem sobretudo para o mercado interno...
as empresas que vendem sobretudo para mercados internacionais foram em geral menos afetadas negativamente pelos diferentes choques....
A queda da procura reportada pelas empresas portuguesas teve uma componente interna mais acentuada, com 54 por cento das empresas a reportarem uma redução da procura no mercado interno, enquanto apenas 25 por cento reportaram uma diminuição da procura nos mercados internacionais. Por outro lado, cerca de 40 por cento das empresas afirmaram ter tido um aumento da procura dirigida aos seus produtos em mercados internacionais, o que é consistente com o desempenho favorável das exportações ao longo deste período. Este comportamento é igualmente consistente com a menor fração de empresas que reduziu os preços nos mercados internacionais (25 por cento, por comparação com 43 por cento no mercado interno). [Moi ici: Lembram-se do bicicletas? Outro guru que desconhece a realidade e a economia em Mongo, continua como bom marxianista enterrado no Normalistão. O bicicletas pode ser professor doutorado mas ainda não descobriu que por norma as empresas exportam a preços superiores aos praticados no mercado nacional] Durante este período, uma parte significativa das empresas também reportou um aumento do grau de concorrência, o que é comum tanto a empresas exportadoras e como a não exportadoras.
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Como o ajustamento dos salários base e do número de horas de trabalho enfrentam importantes restrições, a redução do número de trabalhadores revelou-se o principal instrumento utilizado pelas empresas para acomodar os choques negativos. [Moi ici: Os gurus não viam, não percebiam como a redução da TSU podia ter minorado este desemprego?] Tal afetou particularmente os trabalhadores com contratos a prazo. Como esperado, a utilização das diferentes margens de ajustamento foi maior nas empresas que enfrentaram choques negativos.
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Perante um choque negativo de procura, 45 por cento das empresas reduziram o número de trabalhadores com contrato sem termo, enquanto 41 por cento reduziram o número de trabalhadores com contratos sem termo (16 e 19 por cento, respetivamente, para as empresas não afetadas por choques negativos de procura).
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A redução do emprego foi particularmente significativa nos setores mais afetados pela crise: na construção o número de trabalhadores diminuiu cerca de 8 por cento, enquanto no comércio este valor situou-se em 6 por cento. Pelo contrário, na indústria transformadora a variação do número de trabalhadores reportada pelas empresas foi virtualmente nula. É também visível um contraste entre empresas exportadoras e não exportadoras. Enquanto nas últimas o número de trabalhadores diminuiu 5 por cento, nas primeiras a queda foi inferior a 1 por cento."
"Concerns over a global economic slowdown were fuelled after a leading economic indicator measuring future economic activity tumbled to an all-time low on 22 January 2016. The Baltic Dry Index, which provides an assessment of the price of moving the major raw materials – such as coal, iron ore and grain – by sea by taking in 23 shipping routes measured on a timecharter basis, fell to a historic low of 354.Trechos retirados de "China economic crisis: Baltic Dry Index hits record low amid fears over global trade slowdown"
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it was the shipping industry, rather than the global economy to have it the rocks, and that the sector had only itself to blame for the current ordeal. The world's fleet doubled in size between 2010 and 2013, while China's ambition to get a foothold in the commodities trade saw a sharp increase in Beijing's order intake for new ships as the country doubled its shipyard capacity.
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"The dry cargo market was used to growth approaching 10% for quite a few years on the trot," he was quoted as saying by the Daily Telegraph.
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"All of a sudden, you've hit a market that's gone flat. If you've got more ships than there are cargos, then freight rates are going to be weak. It's that simple.""
"There are at least seven lessons to take away from this game:Recomendo a leitura do texto para perceber o que é o Trading Game
- Trading freely can add value even though the traded items remain physically unchanged.
- The more trading partners there are, the better—wealth and happiness are increased.
- A free exchange is a win-win game, not zero-sum.
- The game is win-win because of the rules set up beforehand—theft and coercion are not allowed, nor does anyone have to trade if they don’t want to.
- Scarcity is almost always real. You can’t have everything, so have to make tradeoffs.
- Opportunity costs—that is, economics does not ask “What do you want?,” but rather “How much do you want it?” which involves making tradeoffs, not having final solutions.
- Economic value is in the eye of the beholder.
- People trade, not governments. The Trade Deficit is an accounting fiction that doesn’t describe the economic fact that individuals are made better off from trading."
"A optimização dos RESULTADOS globais é conseguida, não à custa da optimização de todos os processos mas através da optimização selectiva de alguns processos e, do desempenho deliberadamente menos positivo de outros.O BSC ao identificar quais os processos críticos e quais os processos contexto ajuda na optimização dos RESULTADOS globais.
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Os RESULTADOS globais são o mais importante, tudo deve convergir para eles."
"Each subsystem was performing to standard, but the interaction between them resulted in disaster.
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Unfortunately, most organizations today fall into the same trap: they look at isolated metrics, but fail to see the whole system. They optimize each part of the business separately, and fail to consider how they interact. When we see an operation as a set of isolated metrics to optimize, we can lose our sense of context and decrease overall performance — an efficiency paradox.
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Managers often fall into the trap of thinking that by improving each part of their enterprise, they will improve the whole. However, the opposite is often true.
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Success and failure are rarely determined by performance against a plan, but rather how you adapt for events that cannot be foreseen.
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If everyone is trained — and compensated — to focus on only their part of the task, the shared mission is lost. That’s not a path to greater efficiency or to profitability, but to oblivion."[Moi ici: Recordar o papel do BSC para alinhar, focar, concentrar]
"Os clientes que interessam, os produtos que interessam, essa é informação que as empresas já têm na sua base de dados, pode ser ainda desconhecida, pode precisar de ser minerada, trabalhada, mas já lá está."Entretanto, uma das figuras que apresentei recentemente num workshop sobre o BSC foi esta:
"German exports to the important Chinese market are suffering their sharpest drop in a quarter of a century, casting a shadow over Europe’s biggest economy and showing the global impact of China’s slowdown.
.Que oportunidades e ameaças para a sua PME por trás desta evolução?
With new orders from China and other emerging economies sagging, German businesses fear the bad news is only beginning, data and surveys released in recent days suggest.
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German exports to the U.S. and many other markets are still growing, cushioning the impact of China’s troubles. But with much of Europe still licking its wounds from the long eurozone debt crisis, business confidence in Germany is vulnerable to continued cooling in Asia.
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Above all, capital-goods sales to Chinese factories are down, as overcapacity there takes its toll on investment spending.
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The stakes are high for Germany. The 30 companies in its DAX stock-market index have 672 subsidiaries in China, according to the Munich-based consultancy EAC.
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Some Chinese companies have started to dump unused machinery on the market, further hurting German companies’ sales and profit margins.
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Bright spots remain. Many German companies in consumer and service sectors say they’re benefiting from China’s rapidly growing middle class. Engineering companies that can help China improve its infrastructure and relieve traffic pressures, and environmental-technology companies whose equipment can help reduce pollution, are also reporting growing orders.
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But it is the U.S. that is doing most to compensate for China’s stumble. German exports to the U.S. rose just over 19% from January to November from a year earlier, according to the statistics office."
"a typical firm lasts about ten years before it gets merged, acquired or liquidated, and that a firm’s mortality rate is independent of its age, how well established it is or what it does. While beyond the scope of their study, the authors speculated that biological ecosystems are likely to shed valuable insights into their findings.Princípios para aumentar a robustez de sistemas de negócio complexos:
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“Some business thinkers have argued that companies are like biological species and have tried to extract business lessons from biology, with uneven success,” note the authors. “We stress that companies are identical to biological species in an important respect: Both are what’s known as complex adaptive systems. Therefore, the principles that confer robustness in these systems, whether natural or manmade, are directly applicable to business.”
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“Public companies have a one in three chance of being delisted in the next five years, whether because of bankruptcy, liquidation, M&A, or other causes. That’s six times the delisting rate of companies 40 years ago. Although we may perceive corporations as enduring institutions, they now die, on average, at a younger age than their employees. And the rise in mortality applies regardless of size, age, or sector. Neither scale nor experience guards against an early demise.”
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“companies are dying younger because they are failing to adapt to the growing complexity of their environment. Many misread the environment, select the wrong approach to strategy, or fail to support a viable approach with the right behaviors and capabilities.”
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Corporate mortality is further exacerbated by three broad trends: a more diverse, harsher and less predictable business environment; the faster pace of technological innovation which forces companies to adapt to new business cycles at about twice the rate as 30 years ago; and the increasing integration of business ecosystems and global markets, which while good for economic vitality, adds to the risks of system-wide shocks."
"Maintain heterogeneity of people, ideas, and endeavors.Sublinhei alguns aspectos que reduzem a eficiência e, por isso, são afastados pelas PME que ainda não perceberam que o truque não é o custeio, o truque é o valor percebido, reconhecido, sentido pelo cliente.
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Sustain a modular structure of loosely connected components.
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Preserve redundancy among components.
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Expect surprise, but reduce uncertainty.
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Create feedback loops and adaptive mechanisms.
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Foster trust and reciprocity."
"People have asked me thousands of times to name the most important aspect of pricing. I answer with one word: “value.”
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When asked to elaborate, I will use the term “value to customer.” The price a customer is willing to pay, and therefore the price a company can achieve, is always a reflection of the perceived value of the product or service in the customer’s eyes. If the customer perceives a higher value, his or her willingness to pay rises. The converse is equally true: if the customer perceives a lower value relative to competitive products, willingness to pay drops.
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“Perceive” is the operative word. When a company tries to figure out the price it can achieve, only the subjective (perceived) value of the customer matters. The objective value of the product or other measures of value, such as the Marxian theory that value is defined by the human labor time invested, do not matter intrinsically. They matter only to the degree that the customer thinks they matter and is willing to a pay a price in return.[Moi ici: Em Portugal ainda há muitos marxianistas, sobretudo empresários... mesmo quando são politicamente mais de direita]
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The Romans understood this connection so well that they incorporated it into their language. In Latin the word “pretium” means both price and value. Literally speaking, price and value are one and the same. This is a good guideline for businesses to follow when they make their price decisions. It leaves managers with three tasks:
– Create value : The quality of materials, performance, and design all drive the perceived value of customers. This is also where innovation comes into play.
– Communicate value : This is how you influence customers’ perception. It includes how you describe the product, your selling proposition, and last but not least the brand . Value communication also covers packaging, product performance, and shelf or online placement.
– Retain value: What happens post-purchase is decisive in shaping a lasting, positive perception. Expectations about how the value lasts will have a decisive influence on a customer’s willingness to pay for luxury goods, consumer durables, and cars. [Moi ici: Algo na linha de J. C: Larreché que referi aqui]
The process of price setting begins at the conception of the product idea. A company must think about prices as early and often as possible in the development process, not just after a product is ready to launch."
"Como temos referido aqui no blogue, vários sectores industriais estão a dar a volta, a micro economia está a resolver os seus problemas concretos.
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No limite pode acontecer, sair duma crise estrutural e cair numa crise conjuntural."
"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." "