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É um sinal de recessão? Não!
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É um sinal de mudança.
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A maior parte das PME exportadoras opera no B2B. O que aquele número devia fazer era meter medo a estes empresários. Eles podem ser os vermelhos destas equações:
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E "Portuguese 10-year bond yields head towards 3%"#Portugal 10-year bond yields rise above 3%. Investors expect downgrade by DBRS = exclusion from #ECB's QE. pic.twitter.com/BuHHo6wM4Z— Yannis Koutsomitis (@YanniKouts) August 19, 2016
"As polémicas que se desenvolveram durante os últimos cinco anos sobre o que eram as alternativas de política económica tinham na sua base o equívoco de não reconhecerem a descontinuidade entre as condições do passado e as exigências do futuro.Por fim, "A maldita sorte de Passos Coelho":
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Para Portugal, o euro - e a sua disciplina - é o pressuposto para atingir a escala europeia e escapar à sua escala nacional exígua. É a única resposta que Portugal tem para compensar as consequências do fim do seu império e da nacionalização dos seus centros de acumulação de capital. Os que ignoram a disciplina do euro e sonham com a antiga moeda própria não querem governar Portugal nas suas circunstâncias históricas concretas."
"Ninguém sabe quando isto vai acabar, mas já pouca gente acredita que acabe bem."
"Since 2005, the approximately two dozen U.S. furniture makers that brought the case have received $309 million in Byrd amendment money. But the payments didn’t stem the decline of the domestic wooden furniture industry.Têm tudo a aprender com o calçado ou o mobiliário português e "Por que é que a internacionalização é fundamental?"
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“The money allowed us to fight that fight on the scale that we fought for as long as we did,” he said. But “the consumer wasn’t willing to look past short-term gains of getting something for less” and continued to prefer imports.
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“We’re not sure as an industry whether a made-in-USA moniker means something,” Mr. Prillaman said."
- Viemos de longe e o que nós andámos para aqui chegar!Em Julho de 2008 estávamos neste nível absurdo e caímos até Agosto de 2011 com "É preciso pensamento estratégico primeiro!". Em Maio e Agosto de 2015 já tínhamos chegado a "A economia de experiências a crescer no Algarve" e a "Acerca de sectores estáveis e demasiado homogéneos na oferta (parte VII)".
“muitas das unidades de enoturismo, agora consolidadas, começaram por ser apenas projetos vitivinícolas e, com o tempo, foram diversificando a sua atividade e viram no turismo, nomeadamente no alojamento, uma oportunidade para afirmarem a sua marca e complementar a sua oferta.”
Portugal é o penúltimo país da OCDE com menos funcionários públicos, mas é o 5º país da OCDE que mais gasta com o emprego público em % PIB.— MAL (@mlopes) August 18, 2016
"The Guerrilla Gravity showroom in Denver is not where you pick out a bike. It’s where you help build one.A democratização da produção é isto.
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“Riders get to customize their bikes by color scheme and the components they want,” said Kristy Anderson, who co-founded the company in 2013. “Some people really want to watch their baby being built.”
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“Just like craft beer, people are supporting small-batch manufacturing because it is their neighbors — people they know — doing it,” Anderson said.
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The bikes-to-beer comparison is apt. The rise of craft breweries in the United States saw consumers opting for unique varieties of beer produced by local artisans in small batches rather than the mass-produced brands that have dominated the market for so long.
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But craft brewers are just the tip of the small-batch manufacturing iceberg. Below the surface are hundreds of companies like Guerrilla Gravity, offering consumers a locally crafted product with a focus on quality and craftsmanship.
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Particularly in Colorado, small-batch manufacturers are seemingly everywhere.
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“It’s generally born of passion, manifesting itself in products,” Sullivan said.
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It’s easy to see how small-batch manufacturing is a trend, given the national interest in locally grown foods and the success of craft breweries. But what are the long-term prospects of these newer, smaller members of the manufacturing industry?
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The benefits these companies are finding in the small-batch model — in addition to appealing to consumers’ desires for well-crafted, local goods — suggests an economic advantage to staying small.
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“There’s an emotional connection when you know the makers, or when there is a story behind the product,” he said. “That connection to story and that connection to place is really powerful. And it’s resonating with consumers.”"
"When customers evaluate a product or service, they weigh its perceived value against the asking price....
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What consumers truly value, however, can be difficult to pin down and psychologically complicated.
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The amount and nature of value in a particular product or service always lie in the eye of the beholder, of course. Yet universal building blocks of value do exist, creating opportunities for companies to improve their performance in current markets or break into new ones. A rigorous model of consumer value allows a company to come up with new combinations of value that its products and services could deliver.
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We have identified 30 “elements of value”—fundamental attributes in their most essential and discrete forms. These elements fall into four categories: functional, emotional, life changing, and social impact.
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Our first hypothesis was that the companies that performed well on multiple elements of value would have more loyal customers than the rest. The survey confirmed that.
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Our second hypothesis was that companies doing well on multiple elements would grow revenue at a faster rate than others. Strong performance on multiple elements does indeed correlate closely with higher and sustained revenue growth. Companies that scored high on four or more elements had recent revenue growth four times greater than that of companies with only one high score."
"In the context of your business, coherence means the core parts of your business all being aligned and in sync with one another--supporting and reinforcing each other.Para quem trabalhamos?
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Too many companies have great goals on paper, but simply don't act in alignment with those goals, or their stated priorities and values. Instead, these underperforming companies allow their efforts to become fractured and scattered, often working at counterpoint to each other.
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The most successful companies get all their moving parts working in alignment with each other to achieve their top objectives in a manner consistent with their core values and priorities."
"When prospects tell you the price is too high or you believe the sale has stalled because of price, consider these things.
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1.Does the customer have the cash flow to pay for your product or service? In other words, the price is not too high, the customer just can’t afford it.
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2.Is there someone else making the decision, that you haven’t met, who doesn’t understand the value and told your contact to go back and negotiate the price? Don’t rely on your prospect to sell your solution to the decision maker. You are the best person to do that. If you suspect that there is someone else involved in the decision making process, ask. ...
3.Does the prospect understand the value they are receiving for the price? Maybe they need more education on how your solution is a fit for their need.
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4.Is your prospect differentiating you from your competition? Maybe they are comparing you to a competitor who has a lower price and you haven’t differentiated yourself from that competitor in their mind.
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Before you start negotiating your price, be sure you really have to. If you have a fair price for what you offer, why would you lower it?"
“Value-based pricing is the method of setting a price by which a company calculates and tries to earn the differentiated worth of its product for a particular customer segment when compared to its competitor.”Sim, acho que tem a ver com "a particular customer segment".
"2) Compare with next best alternative. This pricing method only works when the target segment has a specific competitor’s product they can buy instead. Value-based pricers always ask the question: “What would this segment buy if my product wasn’t available?” This “next best alternative” for the target is the essential point of comparison for calculating the value-based price. For products that are truly new, without peers, the value-based pricing methodology won’t work well."Julgo que o autor confunde competition-based pricing com value-based pricing.
"In competition-based pricing, we compare the features and specifications of our product with those of the competition and make a judgment about how the product should be positioned and priced."O value-based pricing procura identificar os benefícios (económicos e emocionais) que o cliente vai sentir por causa da oferta. Depois de reconhecidos, ambas as partes partilham os ganhos criados pela interacção.
"The lesson is as direct as it is disruptive: There is no such thing as an average or old-fashioned business, just average or old-fashioned ways to do business. The thrill of breakthrough creativity can be summoned in all sorts of industries and all walks of life if executives and entrepreneurs are prepared to reimagine what’s possible in their fields. In fact, the opportunity to reach for extraordinary may be most pronounced in settings that have been far too ordinary for far too long."Uma mensagem bem na linha daquela lição que aprendi há cerca de 10 anos:
“… 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”Claro que o mais fácil é vender maçãs como sempre se venderam maçãs, ou vender têxteis como sempre se venderam minutos de trabalho. Ou vender serviços de contabilidade como um serviço de cumprimento de legislação.
"A indústria de moldes tem uma grande dependência da indústria automóvel. A Cefamol acredita que isso possa ser uma ameaça, mas é, diz, uma oportunidade."A vida real é mesmo assim. Não há oportunidades nem ameaças intrínsecas, tudo é subjectivo, tudo depende da postura. Recordar "Transformar Ameaças em Oportunidades" e "Estratégia e pontos fortes, o ovo ou a galinha".
"Não é o que acontece que conta, é o que nós decidimos fazer com o que nos acontece."Todas as hipóteses têm um lado solar e um lado lunar. Quem tem medo compra um cão!
"Successful companies do not create moats. They happen naturally or by accident. Companies that attempt to create moats usually do so at the cost of not spending time on further delighting their customers – which almost always backfires."Como encontrar essa coisa boa, esses resultados que possam servir de alicerce para a transformação necessária?
"De acordo com o recente estudo “Global Survey Growth Retail Strategies”, desenvolvido pela Nielsen, os consumidores portugueses são especialmente atraídos pela variável preço: 77% dos inquiridos confessam perder algum tempo para encontrar as verdadeiras “pechinchas” (mais 16 pp comparativamente à UE). Os portugueses são também claramente atraídos pelos produtos com ingredientes saudáveis (62%)."As PME, portuguesas ou não, não são muito boas a competirem pelo preço mais baixo. Essa proposta de valor é a mais adequada para os gigantes que podem usar e abusar de vantagens de escala. Claro que nos sectores transaccionáveis os gigantes pensam em grande e colocam as unidades produtivas em países de mão de obra barata.
"Contactada pela agência Lusa, a administração da Efacec diz ter identificado “a necessidade de proceder a um conjunto de intervenções indispensáveis à otimização da produção industrial e atividade comercial da empresa, com vista à obtenção de ganhos efetivos de produtividade, competitividade e sustentabilidade”, mas assegura o respeito pelas “melhores práticas laborais e sociais”, tendo “as estruturas sindicais e todas as pessoas envolvidas” sido informadas “com a máxima antecedência possível”."
"A aposta crescente em Angola, e em outros mercados africanos, significa que deixará de ter recursos para trabalhar o mercado norte-americano? Se sim, é uma genuína escolha estratégica legítima. Terá consequências na gama de produtos e nas margens? Implicará produtos mais maduros? É uma mudança importante nos factores críticos de sucesso, que implicará outros tipos de competências."
"“Estas intervenções estão integradas nos programas de melhoria operacional de 2013 e 2016 que preveem medidas de redução de custos com fornecimentos, fundamentalmente de custos indiretos”"
"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." "