Teletrabalho ou desemprego para o povo.
Donos disto tudo:
Em Março de 2010 escrevi acerca do modo de ser português nos negócios:
"os portugueses são bons a abrir fronteiras, a desbastar novas terras, a ir à frente, a explorar (na linguagem de March, os portugueses são bons na exploration e fracos na exploitation. Embora, também possa dizer que os incumbentes confiam demasiado na exploitation e pouco na exploration) por isso, há cada vez mais empresas a exportar para Angola, não por causa do I&D mas por causa da língua comum, mas por causa do gerente que pôs a mochila às costas e foi à luta.)"
Em Novembro de 2018 relacionei o modo de ser português com a fase dos pioneiros nos mapas de SWardley:
Antes de avançar, juntemos mais um modelo a esta sucessão, Roger Martin e o seu funil do conhecimento, Fevereiro de 2010:
Os negócios evoluem do pioneirismo, ou seja, do mistério, para os algoritmos, para a automatização, para a comoditização, para a escala ou volume, para a organização, para a eficiência, para a régua e esquadro.
Os que não podem competir pela eficiência, voltam à exploração dos pioneiros em busca de uma nova alternativa.
Ontem, na minha caminhada matinal entre as 7h00 e as 8h00, mais um capítulo de "Seeing What Others Don't" de Gary Klein, e mais uns trechos a juntarem-se para justificar o que faz a diferença entre os pioneiros e os outros.
Quem está na fase do algoritmo, ou "Town Planners" segue um conjunto de linhas de orientação:
"Guideline 1: The system should help Boone do his job better.
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The goal of helping people perform their jobs better makes sense only if they have well-defined and stable jobs. It doesn’t apply to people whose jobs may shift as a result of insights. ... The system we design to help people do their current jobs may lock them into the original job concept and reduce the chance for insights. ... People sometimes find it easier to stick with the original job description to avoid the hassle of making changes.
Guideline 2: The system should clearly display critical cues.
This guideline isn’t much better. When we identify critical cues in advance, we’ll likely miss those that unexpectedly becomes relevant after we have an insight. ... Many computer aids rely on getting information into and out of databases, and these databases are organized so that the users can navigate them without getting lost. However, the original database structure is likely to become obsolete as knowledge workers gain more insights and revise their thinking. When that happens, the original database structure becomes cumbersome and may
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Guideline 3: The system should filter out irrelevant data.
This guideline is actually harmful.
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The recommendation to filter out irrelevant data sounds good as long as we know in advance which data are relevant. It screens out the happy accidents and unexpected cues that often spark insights.
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The desire to filter out irrelevant data, guideline 3, is understandable. Most of us feel we are drowning in data, so we’re grateful for any help we can get. Unfortunately, this guideline is responsible for creating Internet filter bubbles.
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Guideline 4: The system should help people monitor progress toward their goals.
This guideline also creates problems. Such monitoring will help us stay on schedule. But progress monitoring can get in our way if, after we start a project, we have insights about how to restructure the tasks. Even worse, what happens if we have insights about how we should revise our goals? Once we give up the original goals, all our progress markers become obsolete. A tool that monitors progress toward the original goals would have pestered the riders for conducting an inefficient search strategy.
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Each of the four design principles listed at the beginning of this chapter depends on order and structure, whereas insights are disorderly. [Moi ici: Qual o estilo típico da mentalidade portuguesa?] To change the way decision aids and information technologies are designed, developers would have to pay less attention to how the work was done in the past and more attention to giving decision makers room to discover—giving them more freedom to modify their tasks."
Como o português típico não planeia, não se organiza, ou fá-lo de forma básica, também está mais liberto das amarras das linhas de orientação do modelo anterior. Assim, mais facilmente foge do modelo actual e começa a busca de alternativas.
"People differ in how well they tolerate contradictions and ambiguity, and this personality style likely affects their success at gaining insights. People also differ in how ready they are to entertain ideas that they don’t think are true and in how much they enjoy imagining alternative universes.
Some people become impatient with speculation. They see the playful exploration of ideas as a sign of immaturity. They want closure, and they roll their eyes when a member of the group starts going off on tangents. They are concrete thinkers who just want to work with the facts, not with flights of fancy. This concrete reasoning style wouldn’t leave people very open to insights."
Trecho retirado de "Seeing What Others Don't"
"El Covid-19 se come un 26% de las ventas del comercio de moda en 2020":
"[Moi ici: Números para os Estados Unidos] La moda fue el sector que peor evolucionó en el último año, seguida de cerca por los bares y restaurantes. [Moi ici: Não tinha essa percepção] La facturación del conjunto del retail se incrementó un 0,6% gracias a la alimentación.
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La moda cierra un año para olvidar. En Estados Unidos, donde nunca llegó a decretarse un confinamiento a escala nacional, las tiendas especializadas en ropa y complementos redujeron su facturación un 26,4% en 2020, según el avance publicado hoy por el US Census Bureau.
En su conjunto, el retail y los servicios de alimentación incrementaron su facturación un 0,6% en el último año, gracias al empujón de las tiendas de alimentación, que crecieron un 11,5%, y a las de materiales de construcción y jardinería, con un incremento del 14%.
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También se dispararon a doble dígito las ventas en los que el US Census Bureau denomina nonstore retailers, es decir, distribuidores que venden por catálogo o a través de Internet. Este tipo de comercios se incrementaron un 22,1%, hasta 971.554 millones de euros.
Sólo en diciembre, las ventas de moda se hundieron un 16% respecto al mismo mes del año anterior, mientras otros comercios como los de materiales de construcción se dispararon a doble dígito."
Dados de 15 de Janeiro de 2021 às 15h00 relativos às mortes por covid:
Segue-se um trecho retirado de: "How to grow from here?":
"What are the main risks for economies in 2021? Over the coming months, it will become clearer which companies will still be viable and can adapt in post-pandemic markets once government support dries up and new regulations take effect. At least in some sectors, customer preferences will shift.
For economic recovery, everyone is counting on vaccines. But for this to work, the roll-out would have to be fast and smooth, a sufficient number of people need to agree to be vaccinated, and the vaccination has to be effective against new strains. This is not a given. For trading companies, this will embed significant risks. Divergence in vaccine roll-out across countries will affect supply chains.
Control Risks, a London based Consultancy, list on the top of its risk map for 2021 a fragmented exit from lockdown. There will be countries that easily absorb the vaccine and return it back to normality, while others face an obstacle course over the availability of the vaccines, as well as effective distribution and public uptake."
O que gera lockdowns?
Qual o racional por trás da decisão política de um estabelecer um lockdown?
Gary Klein continua por uma via interessante. Lista uma série de erros óbvios que cometemos, aquilo a que no dia a dia apelidamos de estupidezes. Chegar a casa e perceber que se deixou a chave da porta no escritório, por exemplo:
Mas cuidado com as generalizações. Por exemplo, acerca dos "Flawed Beliefs":"Examples of stupidity put actual insights into perspective. They suggest that we often engage in the insight strategies even for everyday activities that don’t count as insights. We continually make connections, look for implications, spot inconsistencies, and challenge weak assumptions. When we’re on automatic pilot, and the connections and contradictions are obvious, we don’t give ourselves credit for noticing them.
We do give ourselves discredit for missing them. When we fail to make obvious connections, when we miss obvious anomalies and inconsistencies, when we get hung up on assumptions that are clearly wrong, we are guilty of stupidity. Perhaps each insight pathway in the Triple Path Model could be treated as a continuum from stupidity to insight, with normal alertness in between. Stupidity and insight would then be two bookends―the two poles of each continuum.
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Eventually, I arrived at four reasons that we might miss the chance to have an insight: flawed beliefs, lack of experience, a passive stance, and a concrete reasoning style."
"These examples present a clear lesson: people gripped by a flawed theory can ignore, explain away, or distort evidence that could lead to insights. Therefore, we may be tempted to conclude that people should trust data, not their theories. We don’t want people to fixate on their theories. Except that we don’t want people to fixate on data either....There’s no simple guidance here. Holding on to a flawed theory can be a mistake, but so can trusting flawed data. Tenaciously clinging to a belief despite contrary evidence can be a mistake, but so can prematurely discarding a belief at the first encounter with contrary evidence. All we can conclude is that we’re likely to miss the insight if we rely on a flawed belief, either in a theory or in data, and we make it worse if we’re pigheaded and fixate on that belief. As the saying goes, “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you in trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.”The more central the belief is to our thinking, the harder it is to give up. These core beliefs anchor our understanding. We use them to make sense of events, to inquire, and to arrive at judgments about other ideas. And so we are much more likely to explain away any anomalies rather than revise our beliefs in the face of them."
Num livro de ficção científica publicado em 1972 já se explicava o confinamento:
"an evil wizard called Cob, who had ‘an unmeasured desire for life’. He reduces the inhabitants of Earthsea to zombies by offering them eternal life."
Trecho retirado de "It’s not Jung’s, it’s mine"
Volto ao esquema da parte I.
Contradiction - Find an inconsistencyO tempo não abunda, mas quando encontramos um livro de Gary Klein temos de o ler, ainda que não tenha a ver com a minha actividade profissional.
Assim, há já algum tempo que ando a ler "Seeing What Others Don't", sobre como surgem as inovações na vida do dia a dia:.
Ontem, na minha caminhada matinal, entre as 7h00 e as 7h30, li uns trechos muito interessantes que podem ser aplicados à inovação nas empresas.
"So now I had distinguished two different paths to insight.
Muitas empresas, ao implementarem um sistema de gestão da qualidade, pedem a um consultor para lhes listar um conjunto de factores externos relativos ao seu contexto. Infelizmente, muitas nunca mergulham numa reflexão sobre quais são, o que representam e como devem ser utilizados.
Ao ler a introdução a este artigo "The Current State of Substrates in 2021":
"The value, demand and dependency for soilless substrates (growing media) has never been greater. NEVER. Last year brought unprecedented challenges as well as many opportunities to the horticulture industry worldwide. These challenges and opportunities set the stage for what should be a very interesting 2021 for all sectors of the industry. Factors affecting the current and future status of soilless substrates include the COVID-19 pandemic, political trade wars, extreme weather patterns and climate change, existing and proposed environmental regulations, and product and consumer trends."
Quantos riscos e oportunidades reais consegue determinar para a sua empresa, com base em cada um dos factores sublinhados?
"Specifically, the shift to online retail is real, and much of it will stick. In the United States, the penetration of e-commerce was forecast in 2019 to reach 24 percent by 2024; by July 2020, it had hit 33 percent of total retail sales. Eric Lamarre and Kate Smaje, “Accelerating digital capabilities to recover from the COVID-19 crisis,” July 21, 2020. To put it another way, the first half of 2020 saw an increase in e-commerce equivalent to that of the previous ten years. Arun Arora, Hamza Khan, Sajal Kohli, and Caroline Tufft, “DTC e-commerce: How consumer brands can get it right,” November 2020. In Latin America, where the payments and delivery infrastructure isn’t as strong, e-commerce use doubled from 5 to 10 percent. In Europe, overall digital adoption is almost universal (95 percent), compared with 81 percent at the start of the pandemic. In normal times, getting to that level would have taken two to three years. Strikingly, the biggest increases came in countries that had previously been relatively cautious about shopping online. Germany, Romania, and Switzerland, for example, had the three lowest online-penetration rates prior to the COVID-19 crisis; since then, usage increased 28, 25, and 18 percentage points, respectively—more than in any other markets."
Dado o efeito de stickiness, quem experimentou venceu a barreira da ansiedade e do hábito. Como será o efeito de histerese nas vendas online?
"A questão de saber se haverá um efeito de histerese é muito interessante. Este é o nome de um fenómeno na Física em que um impulso temporário tem um efeito permanente."
Em Novembro de 2019 no postal "Total Value Ownership" escrevi:
"Numa relação B2B clássica os vendedores estão habituados a negociar com base no preço. O preço é o que está à vista. A SKF usa a noção de Total Cost Ownership. Desde que o cliente compra o rolamento até que se desfaz dele no final do ciclo de vida, quais são os custos que o cliente vai ter?"
A SKF é um exemplo clássico do uso do ciclo de vida para fugir ao preço unicamente no acto da compra. Recordo, por exemplo:
Interessante coincidência. No último mês ter escrito:
"Streaming services are devaluing movies as appointment viewing, but there’s already evidence that theaters can succeed by making the experience more, well, special. Late in 2019, Austin-based Alamo Drafthouse offered extremely popular “rowdy” showings of the panned Cats, encouraging audiences to shout and laugh at the terrifying, gyrating computer-generated felines on screen. It also delivers restaurant-quality food and dozens of craft beers straight to patrons’ seats.Alamo Drafthouse has also discovered that customers want to privately rent entire theaters during the pandemic, a service that makes up 50% of its top-line revenue today. (Cinemark says it has sold more than 100,000 private watch parties, generating at least $10 million in revenue.) That service may also be easier to book in the future. “I’ve never considered at-home streaming our competitor,” says Tim League, founder of Alamo Drafthouse. “We are an out-of-home experience. We’re competing against restaurants, bars, and clubs.”"
Chega-se ao fim e apetece fazer o exercício de "Oceano Azul" ou o de Horwath - Em que é que vocês são bons?
Em tempos de experimentação de novos posicionamentos ou ofertas, porque nem sempre a nova oportunidade é clara, é importante ter em conta os velhos estóicos:
"pivoting market shapers should keep one foot on the ground"
Melhor ainda, o mito do filho de Gaia, Anteu.
Trecho retirado de "Streaming Isn’t Killing Movie Theaters. It's Making Them Better"
Um grupo de humanos ignorantes olham para o palco e vêem um espaço em branco convidativo para uma caminhada. Podem ser ignorantes, mas umas explosões anteriores revelaram que afinal o caminho tinha perigos escondidos. Então, esse grupo contrata alguém com alguma experiência em caminhadas semelhantes para descobrir as minas escondidas no caminho.
Vamos roubar o olhar aos deuses para ver a realidade com outros olhos. Afinal o caminhado está semeado de minas.
A pessoa experiente começa a esquadrinhar o caminho para detectar e eliminar as minas semeadas no caminho. Descobre-as, desarmadilha-as e torna o caminho até aí seguro:Há dias escrevi esta "Curiosidade do dia" para salientar o trabalho de desmame e de empoderamento que qualquer abordagem liberal pressuporá. Um ideologia liberal ao chegar ao poder de um país socialista como Portugal não pode, de um dia para o outro, "libertar" o país sem um trabalho gradual de desmame e de empoderadamento.
Contudo, não abracem logo a ideia simplista de que ao dar-se um pouco de liberdade ao povo este não a sabe usar. Já se interrogaram sobre como funciona este país socialista?
O governo toma a decisão A. O tempo passa e a situação piora e conclui-se que afinal a decisão A não foi eficaz e avança-se para a decisão C ou D.
Quem observa o palco concorda com a cabeça e diz:
- Não havia alternativa, a medida A falhou.
Quem está nos bastidores sabe que a medida A nunca chegou a sair do papel:
Quem está nos bastidores sabe que a medida A foi mal implementada por causa de erros básicos:Soa tudo a um teatro de sombras, nevoeiros, espelhos para esconder a incompetência, ganhar pontos políticos, ganhar pontos entre os pares académicos ou corporativos.Na sequência de:
"a pivot is a substantive change to one or more of your business model facets, be it your product, your customer segment, your channel, pricing logic, resources, activities, or partners. But note that pivoting market shapers should keep one foot on the ground, true to the origins of the metaphor in basketball. In other words, apply your learnings from past success and failure to the new area. Note, too, that pivoting does not imply desperation. It can be a clever leadership tool to discover growth opportunities.
At its best, pivoting is a systematic, hypothesis-driven process of experimentation (hence overlap with another of our Es), to drive and evaluate market opportunities. You translate your market vision into falsifiable business model hypotheses, test the hypotheses using minimum viable set-ups, then decide whether to persevere with the existing model, or pivot by changing some elements.
Pivots continue after the start-up phase. Many a successful company have pivoted both in their start-up phase and over longer periods."
Trecho retirado de SMASH: Using Market Shaping to Design New Strategies for Innovation, Value Creation, and Growth de Kaj Storbacka e Suvi Nenonen.
"BTW, muitas vezes acho que os liberais são os maiores inimigos do liberalismo porque falam de querer amanhã o que só poderá ser obtido ao fim de um processo. Imagino o que aconteceria ao fim de pouco tempo se acabasse a escola pública como a conhecemos, independente da procura e dependente de um centro mais preocupado em vómito, política e custo."
Em 2020 escrevi:
"Costumo dizer que os maiores inimigos do liberalismo são alguns liberais, pedem coisas que não só são impossíveis no imediato como metem medo aos não liberais, e o que devia ser um processo evolutivo acaba por nunca acontecer. Também posso dizer que os maiores inimigos da descida dos impostos são os argumentos usados pelos defensores das descidas de impostos."
Hoje ao ouvir Camilo Lourenço, lembrei-me de Tocqueville em "De La Démocratie En Amérique" acerca da diferença de educação entre as jovens americanas e as francesas:
O que esperar de um povo educado, condicionado, "trabalhado" para que não pense por si. Nunca me esqueço deste exemplo:
Nem deste outro:
Um povo mantido e educado como criança não pode ser livre.Para que este povo possa ser livre tem de ser progressivamente desmamado, empoderado e responsabilizado.
"Most organizations can cope with straightforward bad news, and so can most people. We absorb the shock, and move on. But what happens when we don’t know how bad the news actually is?
When it comes to crises, the news companies must deliver is often potential bad news.
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Communicating about uncertainty — what people call ‘risk communications’ in practice — has become one of the most important challenges faced by anyone who needs to convey or consume information.
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The inherent challenge for risk communicators is people’s natural desire for certainty and closure.
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To start to repair the trust deficit will require a significant retrofit of existing communications practices. Here are three places to start.
Stop improvising. Firms will never be able to reduce uncertainty to zero, but they can commit to engaging with customers around uncertainty in systematic, predictable ways.
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Change the metric for success, and measure results. Avoiding negative press should not be the primary objective for firms that are faced with communicating uncertainty. In the short term, the primary goal should be to equip customers with the information they need to interpret uncertainty and act to manage their risk. In the long term, the goal should be to increase levels of ambient trust and to reduce risks where possible. Communicators need to demonstrate that what they are doing is working, by creating yardsticks that rigorously measure the effectiveness of communications against both these short and long term goals. ... Design for risk communications from the beginning. Consider what it would mean if every product were built from the start with the need to communicate uncertainty about how it will perform when released into the wild — that is, “risk communication by design.”
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People are naturally inclined to prefer certainty and closure, but in a world where both are in short supply, trust deficits aren’t an inevitable fact of nature. We’re optimistic that organizations can do better collectively by making disciplined use of the existing science."
Trechos retirados de "The Art of Communicating Risk"
"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." "