Mais um dia e mais uma PME anónima com dois problemas:
- excesso de procura - recusar encomendas, impor quantidades máximas por cliente;
- dificuldade em encontrar pessoas disponíveis para trabalhar.
"We're taught to follow instructions, to avoid significant risk and to be good at compliance. The system prefers it that way, at least when things aren't in flux. But we can learn to make assertions instead.Trecho retirado de "The most important journeys come without a map", ou seja, como não recordar o meu aviso a Zapatero...
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Every once in awhile, we see a change in the world and have the chance to speak up, to lay out a plan, to make an argument about how to proceed. We have a chance to lead."
""Models are conjectures—hypotheses. They are not formed by deduction or induction but by abduction—inferring the most likely story to explain the evidence. Abduction is the creative heart of science, engineering, and design. Its mechanism remains unknown—though preparation and persistence may aid the process. Models are not the special province of science. We use them all the time. Models help us recognize new situations as similar to others we have encountered. Without a model, recognizing the similarities might be difficult. Models also help us predict likely futures: what actions other actors may take, consequences of those actions, and what actions best respond to threats or most efficiently help us pursue our goals. Armed with our models’ predictions, we act accordingly."
"by killing a bad practice, and not blindly following what your competitors are doing, you can gain a competitive edge and create a profitable source of renewal and innovation"Trecho retirado de "Breaking Bad Habits" de Freek Vermeulen
"one path physical retailers can take, of course, is to compete by going online themselves and even using their physical stores as a pickup spotTrecho retirado de "Shoppers Need a Reason to Go to Your Store — Other Than Buying Stuff"
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But that alone will not save many retailers’ physical stores. They have to provide a compelling reason for consumers to visit them that online retailers can’t match. The best way is to compete on the basis of time well spent — to offer an experience so engaging that customers cannot help but spend time with you! And the more time they spend with you, the more money they will spend."
"There are specific reasons why customers go to a store—seven of them, to be precise (see exhibit). While Amazon consistently grabs headlines with its bold moves, a range of smaller start-ups are redefining the retail experience by innovating delivery, sharing, and curation. That means successful retail in the digital age isn’t just about “how to respond to Amazon” but more about how to stay on top and ahead of the wave of innovations hitting retailers."Trecho e imagem retirados "Where stores can still compete—and win"
"As industry giants move their operations online, shuttering stores and shedding thousands of employees, Bonobos and other brands that offer experience shopping are taking the opposite approach.
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For physical retailers, it’s not enough to have things anymore, experts say. Now you need an experience—a convenience, activity, or ambiance—to rope people in."
"the value mantra is: it's not how little you pay, it's how much you get. That's the basic difference and tension between price and value. And today's procurement professionals not only need to understand this difference, they should use their procurement toolkit to help them put the concept into practice.Trechos retirados de "Value First Then Price" editado por Andreas Hinterhuber e Todd Snelgrove.
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Unfortunately, the usual modus operandi for many businesses is to seek price reductions that provide immediate gratification rather than buying on best value, which for many managers is too long-term, involves too many departments, and is too complicated and abstract."
"“showing up” is about all it has going for it. It’s sort of like drunk-dialing your x-girlfriend. Yes, you’re making yourself top of mind with her (awareness!) and you’re occupying her thoughts to the exclusion of everyone else (attention!) – but you’re also rambling and mumbling and cursing and vomiting and being fairly incoherent. But hey! You’re showing up!Ler isto e pensar nas marcas que torram dinheiro naqueles anúncios nos media tuga online ou no youtube. Imaginem estar a ouvir um disco dos Bread e no meio de uma balada ser interrompido por uma voz excitada a dizer que preciso de um site. Recordem a quantidade de barreiras publicitárias que têm de vencer para chegar a meia dúzia de linhas escritas com o conteúdo que interessa. O meu problema não é com quem vende o espaço publicitário, o meu problema é com as marcas que julgam que vão ter mais clientes com esta exposição... aquela imagem lá de cima "drunk-dialing your x-girlfriend" e pensar que ela vai gostar, é tão boa!!!
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So brands show up. Tweets and posts and videos and banners and takeovers and filters and god knows what else. Just get the message out. Just show up. That’s all we have to do."
"As manufacturing shifts from offshore mass production to customized, local fabrication, new jobs will open up for human workers, some of which have yet to reveal themselves. “We used to have distribution built around manufacturing,” Mandel says, referencing the centrality of offshore factories, “and now I think that manufacturing is going to be built around distribution.”"Será que a unidade do futuro será mesmo a distribuição? Tendo a pensar que a unidade do futuro será a relação, será a interacção, será a co-criação, e todos os modelos de negócio que a fomentem e potenciem serão importantes.
"Strategy can be viewed as a literary effort to craft a complete script and then hand it over to actors who enact it word by word. I prefer to think of it as resembling improvisational theater. A strategy takes shape from what actors do in front of audiences that provide feedback. Like the rapid prototyping of products in the tech world, or like a capital campaign for hospitals or museums that begins with a quiet phase, strategy often emerges from thoughtful planning followed by serendipitous execution experiments, like doing better than expected in a particular market. In fact, successful leaders sometimes wait to announce a strategy until it’s well under way."Em momentos de incerteza, em momentos de mudança e turbulência como neste exemplo, "Já há livrarias a fechar devido à oferta dos manuais escolares", a minha receita é procurar um sinal de algo sobre o qual se possa alicerçar uma hipótese de sucesso futuro, como naquele "like doing better than expected in a particular market". Recordar o meu:
"Temos de começar por aquilo que já hoje funciona, apesar dos resultados globais negativos da empresa."E este "Do concreto para o abstracto e não o contrário".
"This is how liberty dies, with thunderous applause"É assim que as empresas grandes que também eram grandes empresas morrem:
"1. Better before cheaper—in other words, compete on differentiators other than price.
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2. Revenue before cost—that is, prioritize increasing revenue over reducing costs.
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3. There are no other rules—so change anything you must to follow Rules 1 and 2."
"Our biggest battle involved things with our government," he says. "We didn't have a course in that."Em todo o lado a mesma doença.
"the saga of the independent bookstore underwent a major plot twist: The customers came back. Between 2009 and 2015, independent booksellers across America grew by an astounding 35 percent, from 1,651 stores to 2,227, ABA figures show. And the upsurge shows no sign of slowing.Nada disto é novidade para este blogue... e traduz-se numa expressão que cunhei este ano: o truque é perceber que o papel da livraria não é o de vomitar livros, despachar um output, mas o de ajudar o cliente a arranjar um input que ele vai introduzir na sua vida para atingir um resultado muito pessoal. E isto é voltar ao tema de Ulwick:
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the genuine social value of traditional neighborhood bookstores and how they’ve changed their own fates.
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The full study won’t be published until next year, but in a newly released overview, Raffaelli notes what he calls the “three C’s” of his findings: community, curation, and convening. Independent bookstores early on embraced the community-oriented “localism” wave that has inspired the proliferation of craft brewers, farmers’ markets, and the like. Small bookstores carefully curate the books they sell to reflect their clientele’s interests and concerns. And in recent years they have repositioned themselves as “intellectual centers,” hosting events and convening people and ideas in shared spaces..
In other words, booksellers have learned to adapt to the vast changes in their own industry.
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“We don’t think of them as booksellers anymore — they’re literary entrepreneurs,” says Raffaelli. “I think that’s an important distinction.”
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“We have a niche,” Egerton says. “The idea is to serve the community.”
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Layte cites the notion of the “third place” — a gathering space beyond home and work. It turns out we need destinations like neighborhood bookstores, she says, “to be full humans.”"
"Making the job-to-be-done the unit of analysis means it is the job — not the product, the customer or customer demographics — that is to be studied, dissected and understood. This means that companies should not define customer needs around the product, but should instead define customer needs around getting the job done."Eventuais dificuldades para o avanço mais rápido deste tipo de abordagem em Portugal:
"A market, which is the target of everything a company does, should not be defined around something so unstable that it is only valid until the next product iteration. It should be defined around something that is stable for decades, making long-term strategic investments more attractive and providing the company with a vision for the future."Mais recentemente voltou ao tema:
"A functional job-to-be-done is often a job that customers have been trying to accomplish for years, decades and in some cases even centuries. ... A functional job is stable over time. What changes over time are the products and services that companies offer to help get the job done better.Ao ler "ARE EXOSKELETONS THE FUTURE OF PHYSICAL LABOR?" e "Thought-Controlled Prosthetic Hand Restores 100 Realistic Touch Sensations" penso logo em:
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Because the job-to-be-done is stable over time, it is an attractive focal point around which to create customer value.
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Making the job-to-be-done the unit of analysis means it is the job — not the product, the customer or customer demographics — that is to be studied, dissected and understood. This means that companies should not define customer needs around the product, but should instead define customer needs around getting the job done."
"A dyadic perspective may be too limited to comprehend contemporary value cocreation phenomena though, especially those that take place in service systems13 anos depois destas minhas experiências:
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“firms are increasingly engaged in complex market configurations where the alignment of market views becomes central for success. Firms therefore need to offer their view on how the market should be configured, and engage actors in activities aimed at creating a shared market view.” In practice, even service systems with only three firms (e.g., manufacturer, dealer, and user) can prove highly complex as market configurations.
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Triads of independent firms that connect through network ties, either directly or indirectly, for the purpose of doing business represent complex market configurations. Their network ties can be structural, economic, or social in character. A case in point is the Illinois-based company Caterpillar, a global leader in earth-moving products. To realize its value propositions, the company needs to foster network ties with users of its equipment but also with dealers that sell and service that equipment. Caterpillar operates through an extensive network of independent dealers in over 180 countries and refers to those dealers as “a critical competitive differentiator” and “the foundation” of its worldwide success. However, Caterpillar also believes its dealers may be missing out on US$9–18 billion annually in easy-to-capture revenue, such that they need to enhance their service operations to boost their share of the global service market. Despite the integration of diagnostic technologies into Caterpillar machines, dealers have not capitalized on these assets sufficiently
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we consider the development of a triadic value proposition and analyze how the discontinuous effects of a new-to-the-industry service initiative might change relationships among actors in the business triad."
"If the customer doesn't care about the price, then the retailer shouldn't care about the cost," E quem o faz começa a matar a galinha dos ovos de ouro.
"O rótulo “Made in Portugal” é sinónimo de procura e de negócioRecordar 2015 e 2014.
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Na feira de decoração de interiores e design, no parque de exposições de Paris-Nord Villepinte, há mais de 70 marcas lusas,
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“Não só aqui, como na feira de Nova Iorque, andam à procura dos produtos portugueses por terem qualidade e também a questão da matéria-prima. Nota-se uma crescente procura de produtos portugueses”
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Acho que o design português agora reinventou-se. O produto português tem-se notado que tem mais qualidade e o 'made in Portugal' tem mais relevo”
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Na única fábrica de lápis de Portugal, a origem do fabrico é fator de prestígio e a estratégia de internacionalização passa por exportar os próprios produtos históricos, os produtos concebidos pela sub-marca Art Graph e os produtos personalizados por encomenda.
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“Nós produzimos material personalizado para alguns dos mais importantes museus do mundo e as pessoas que os comercializam dizem que isto é produzido em Portugal na Viarco. Significa que aquela carga de levar Portugal às costas (...) deixou de ser um problema e passou efetivamente a fazer parte da nossa estratégia fundamental e da criação da nossa própria identidade”"
- I've seen things, you people would't believe ...Impressionado a sério com a qualidade e o luxo do que vi ser feito em empresas portuguesas. A minha bitola foi colocada a um novo nível.
"The good news with unfair advantages is that you don't need one from the outset. When you are just starting out, embrace obscurity to build something valuable without calling out too much competitor attention. Identify an unfair advantage story and if one is not readily apparent, it is always better to leave the unfair advantage box blank than stuffing a weak unfair advantage as a placeholder.
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The bad news with unfair advantages is that once you get some traction, your unfair advantage will get tested -- by your competitors and copycats."
"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." "