Recordo
Estamos no tempo do admnistrador astuto - Lucas 16, 1-15
— Carlos P da Cruz 🇺🇦🚜🇳🇱🇬🇪🇮🇱 (@ccz1) November 9, 2023
Recordo
Estamos no tempo do admnistrador astuto - Lucas 16, 1-15
— Carlos P da Cruz 🇺🇦🚜🇳🇱🇬🇪🇮🇱 (@ccz1) November 9, 2023
Há dias citei:
"A boa notícia é que vamos assistir à morte das empresas zombie dependentes de taxas de juro artificialmente baixas"
Agora, começo a reparar outros canários na mina.
Por exemplo, no FT de ontem em "The looming threat of fiscal crises" Martin Wolf escreve:
"It is unquestionable that public debt has reached high levels by past standards.
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So, is public debt disaster looming? If so, will there be defaults, inflation, financial repression (forcible attempts to keep debt cheap), or some combination of all three? If none of these is to happen, what must be done?
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If governments are going to avoid the risks of a debt explosion and are also not going to resort to surprise inflation or financial repression, they will have to tighten what are mostly still ultra-loose fiscal policies. But will they dare to do so in ageing societies, with slowly growing economies and expanding defence burdens?"
Por exemplo, no WSJ de ontem em "Interest Payments Are Walloping Government Budgets":
"The world spent the past decade-plus taking advantage of rock-bottom interest rates to binge on debt. An unprecedented bill is coming due.
Governments are expected to spend a net $2 trillion paying interest on their debt this year as higher interest rates make borrowing more expensive, up more than 10% from 2022, according to an analysis of International Monetary Fund data by research consulting firm Teal Insights and a separate analysis by Fitch Ratings. By 2027, it could top $3 trillion, Teal Insights says. The surge in interest costs leaves governments with difficult choices."
Como li há dias no Twitter, sempre que o PS "foge" do governo... é um sinal de que tempos negros se avizinham.
"Having a CEO around for a long time is often thought to provide a company with consistency. But it can also store up problems, according to new research.
Academics looking into the fall-out from a CEO with a long tenure find that it can "harm" performance, even after they are replaced.
Statistical analysis by a team of academics finds that it appears hard to maintain performance after a long-standing CEO has moved on. There are also higher costs involved with the "clean-up"— restructuring and write offs-after veteran chief executives have departed."
Trecho retirado de "Long-standing CEOs can leave a legacy of trouble for boards"
Recordar 1Ts 5, 1-6
"The autumn picture is both clear and gloomy. Europe's CFOs see a challenging winter ahead. Inflation is still elevated and interest rates at levels that are, historically, normal rather than particularly high, but from the rock bottom, near-zero rates of the previous decade and a half. Consumers are struggling with spiralling costs, and CFOs face the same problem: they too are now focusing on major efforts to reduce costs - rather than planning to invest, hire staff and expand. As was the case last autumn, when the Ukraine conflict brought Europe the threat of energy shortages, CFOs are uneasy about the winter that lies ahead and about the risks to economic growth. Their mindset is therefore cautious.
With generative Al, many see the potential to help them reduce costs and improve their business performance in general. Yet, most are still in preparation mode. If competitors find benefits in using generative Al and steal a march on them, they will be swift to join the new trend - provided they can find staff with the knowledge required. If generative Al expands rapidly, competition for the respective skills will become intense....But the worsening in Europe’s current economic picture and its prospects is reflected in a reinforcement of the shift in CFOs’ strategic priorities that began to be evident a year ago—they are focusing on cost reduction. This shift to a defensive strategy is easy to understand: Europe’s CFOs, just like its consumers, are responding to the cost-of-living crisis by tightening their belts."
Sexta-feira à noite num canal de TV durante o noticiário vi o relato deste tema aqui registado no JN de ontem
O jornal não refere algo dito na peça televisiva, vários participantes na marcha referiram ter o sector perdido centenas de explorações leiteiras nos últimos anos."Para o BCE, a situação é mais difícil. "A zona euro encontra-se numa espiral de inflação salarial e a tendência deverá manter-se em 2024", afirma Dixmier. O problema dos aumentos salariais na Europa é que não são motivados pelo aumento de produtividade e, consequentemente, aumentam diretamente os custos das empresas. E as empresas vão querer manter as suas margens, o que irá traduzir-se diretamente em aumentos de preços. Por este motivo, o especialista prevê que o BCE terá de continuar a aumentar as taxas para combater a inflação. "A boa notícia é que vamos assistir à morte das empresas zombie dependentes de taxas de juro artificialmente baixas", acrescenta Virginie Maisonneuve, diretora de Investimento em Ações."
Ontem no Twitter fiquei apanhado por esta foto.
É oficial. Salário mínimo sobe para 820 euros em janeiro https://t.co/44IGJqLBrj pic.twitter.com/tc11WlrPoR
— ECO (@ECO_PT) November 17, 2023
Acham que o valor gerado numa actividade como esta é capaz de pagar 820 euros por mês a estes trabalhadores?
Ah! Esquecia-me! Esquecia-me que estes trabalhadores, muito provavelmente, são dos tais que estão por cá a prestar serviço, mas são pagos por um empregador no Bangladesh, de acordo com as regras do Bangladesh, tal como as empresas de construção portuguesas que vão prestar serviço na Alemanha e pagam salário português aos seus trabalhadores.
Ontem publicamos aqui no blogue: "Depois não se venham queixar das empresas zombies".
Volta e meia escrevo aqui sobre o país do absurdo. Querem mais um exemplo? O novo aeroporto de Lisboa. Às segundas, terças e quartas, empertigam-se porque já deveria estar construído e em operação, para às quintas, sextas e sábados protestarem contra o excesso de turismo e contra as alterações climáticas.
Às segundas, terças e quartas, empertigam-se porque temos demasiadas empresas zombies...
para às quintas, sextas e sábados, quando lhes começam a tremer as pernas, protestarem por causa da falta de apoios para elas.
Voltemos ao tema da parte I, a falta de mão-de-obra. Vai ser o novo normal.
Entretanto no NYT de quarta-feira passada encontro "Signs of a Lasting Labor Crunch"
"At Lake Champlain Chocolates, the owners take shifts stacking boxes in the warehouse. At Burlington Bagel Bakery, a sign in the window advertises wages starting at $25 an hour. Central Vermont Medical Center is training administrative employees to become nurses. Cabot Creamery is bringing workers from out of state to package its signature blocks of Cheddar cheese.
The root of the staffing challenge is simple: Vermont's population is rapidly aging. More than a fifth of Vermonters are 65 or older, and more than 35 percent are over 54, the age at which Americans typically begin to exit the work force. No state has a smaller share of its residents in their prime working years.
Vermont offers an early look at where the rest of the country could be headed.
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"All of these things point in the direction of prolonged labor scarcity,"
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Employers are fighting over scarce workers, offering wage increases, signing bonuses and child care subsidies, alongside enticements such as free ski passes. [Moi ici:a diferença para a parte I é notória] When those tactics fail, many are limiting operating hours and scaling back product offerings.
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Long-run labor scarcity will look different from the acute shortages of the pandemic era. Businesses will find ways to adapt, either by paying workers more or by adapting their operations to require fewer of them. Those that can't adapt will lose ground to those that can.
"It's just going to be a new equilibrium," said Jacob Vigdor, an economist at the University of Washington, adding that businesses that built their operations on the availability of relatively cheap labor may struggle. [Moi ici: A quem caberá a carapuça?]
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"You may discover that that business model doesn't work for you anymore," he said. "There are going to be disruptions. There are going to be winners and losers." [Moi ici: Sinto tanta falta deste pragmatismo adulto carregado de bom senso... faz-me voltar ao piquenine e às formigas de 2006]
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The winners are the workers. When workers are scarce, employers have an incentive to broaden their searches - considering people with less formal education, or those with disabilities and to give existing employees opportunities for advancement.
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Other businesses are finding their own ways to accommodate workers. Lake Champlain Chocolates, a high-end chocolate maker outside Burlington, has revamped its production schedule to reduce its reliance on seasonal help. It has also begun bringing former employees out of retirement, hiring them part-time during the holiday season.
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"We've adapted," said Allyson Myers, the company's marketing director. "Prepandemic we never would have said, oh, come and work in the fulfillment department one day a week or two days a week. We wouldn't have offered that as an option."
Then there is the most straightforward way to attract workers: paying them more. Lake Champlain has raised starting wages for its factory and retail workers 20 to 35 percent over the past two years.
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"We need to start looking at immigrants as a strategic resource, incredibly valuable parts of the economy,;" said Ron Hetrick, senior labor economist at Lightcast, a labor market data firm."
Na parte I temos o típico comportamento tuga em que o locus de controlo está no exterior (nós somos uns desgraçados, uns Calimeros, não temos agência, tem de ser alguém no exterior a resolver o nosso problema). Na parte II temos um discurso em que o locus de controlo está no interior.
"Seis em cada dez empresas portuguesas teve dificuldade em contratar pessoas com as competências adequadas às suas necessidades, uma questão que é transversal a todos os setores económicos. Este é mesmo o maior problema identificado pelas PME nacionais nas respostas a um inquérito da União Europeia, no qual reclamam incentivos fiscais, designadamente através da redução da TSU à Segurança Social, e ações de requalificação profissional. Subsídio diretos são também bem acolhidos."
Tendo em conta os sublinhados pergunto: É um problema de falta de mão de obra, ou um problema de incapacidade de pagar o nível salarial para atrair as pessoas?
Será que incentivos fiscais, acções de requalificação profissional e subsídios directos têm a ver com falta de mão de obra, ou são soro para manter empresas em coma?
Depois não se venham queixar das empresas zombies. Deixem as empresas morrer!
Trecho retirado de "PME querem incentivos fiscais para ajudar a combater a falta de mão-de-obra"
"When the environment is stable, AI can surpass humans. If the future is like the past, large amounts of data are useful. However, if surprises happen, big data - which are always data from the past - may mislead us about the future. Big data algorithms missed the financial crisis of 2008 and in 2016 predicted Hillary Clinton's victory by a large margin.
In fact, many problems we face are not well-defined games but situations in which uncertainty abounds: finding true love, predicting who will commit a crime and reacting in unforeseen emergency situations are examples. Here, more computing power and bigger data are of limited help. Humans are the key source of uncertainty. Imagine how much more difficult chess would be if the king could violate the rules at a whim and the queen could stomp off the board in protest after setting the rooks on fire. With people involved, trust in complex algorithms can lead to illusions of certainty that become a recipe for disaster."
Trecho retirado de "How to Stay Smart in a Smart World: Why Human Intelligence Still Beats Algorithms" de Gerd Gigerenzer
"É uma boa notícia e um exemplo concreto da teoria dos Flying Geese."Sobre a instalação de uma empresa farmacêutica no reino do calçado.
Impressionante a radiografia das exportações usando o template tradicional aqui do blogue.
Recordar de Agosto passado: Tudo vai depender do tal jogo de forças (parte VI)"The Kiva users noticed that the changes happened as compensation to Kiva's top employees increased dramatically. In 2020, the CEO took home over $800,000. Combined, Kiva's top 10 executives made nearly $3.5 million in 2020. In 2021, nearly half of Kiva's revenue went to staff salaries."Pergunta: como se criam instituições que não degeneram e se focam nos seus membros, em vez de manterem o foco na razão para o qual foram criadas, alguém no exterior?
No JN da passada sexta-feira:
Este postal foi inspirado neste tweet:
O processo Influencer leva-nos a ver o que se passa atrás do pano, nos bastidores.Processo Influencer é uma magnifica autópsia às condições de investimento em Portugal
— JoãoMiranda (@joaomiranda) November 10, 2023
"Os investimentos estrangeiros que se têm feito nos últimos anos têm sido à custa de um tratamento preferencial negociado nos corredores, carpetes e biombos do poder, com a atribuição de benesses e redução nos impostos para os compadres (os PINs do Pinho)."Recordo:
"Governments should be business friendly, not friends of business."
— Bruno Vilhena (@BrunoVPires) May 6, 2021
Esta semana apanhei nas notícias:
"A Coloplast, cuja atividade inclui cuidados em ostomia, em continência e urologia, vai investir 100 milhões de euros em Portugal naquela que será a sua maior unidade industrial.Na nova fábrica, que irá erguer em Felgueiras, conta vir a empregar mais de mil pessoas."
Já por várias vezes referi a Coloplast aqui no blogue, um praticante de Mongo na indústria farmacêutica. É uma boa notícia e um exemplo concreto da teoria dos Flying Geese.
Alguns vão dizer:
- Não há pessoas para trabalhar, ainda para mais em Felgueiras, um concelho com pleno-emprego.
A rentabilidade de uma empresa como a Coloplast permite-lhe pagar salários que os incumbentes em Felgueiras nunca conseguirão.
Conseguem imaginar o aumento da produtividade de um trabalhador que sai da costura ou montagem de sapatos, para uma linha de montagem da Coloplast? Sem formação (lerolero ou caridadezinha) que não a dada pela empresa. Recordo daqui:
"Há uma forma rápida de aumentar a produtividade de uma costureira! Basta despedi-la de uma fábrica subcontratada por uma marca para costurar T-shirts e, adimiti-la numa outra fábrica, na mesma rua, que tem marca própria e fabrica T-shirts para vender com essa marca"
Sabem o que isto faz? Contribui para diminuir a dor na transição referida em Falta a parte dolorosa da transição (Parte VI)
Ontem li "It's Time to Toss SWOT Analysis into the Ashbin of Strategy History" e fiquei com uma sensação estranha.
Concordo e não concordo com o autor. Julgo que é outra vez a estória da culpa ser da caneta e não de quem a usa também referida aqui.
Concordo quando ele refere:
"I am tired of reading SWOT analyses. [Moi ici: Eu também, o meu detector da treta está sempre a apitar]
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Who can tell me a blinding insight that came out of any such SWOT analysis? [Moi ici: O que levanta a questão sobre para que fim é a SWOT usada?]
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Consider the strengths analysis. To be able to analyze one’s strengths, one has to have a definition of what is contained in the category ‘strengths’ and a way of measuring whatever is included. But a strength is only a strength in the context of a particular Where-to-Play/How-to-Win (WTP/HTW) choice. [Moi ici: O mesmo se pode dizer das fraquezas, o que me leva a este postal "Assim, partem já derrotados" de 2015. Usar uma SWOT para desenvolver uma estratégia, é pôr o carro à frente dos bois. Primeiro é preciso ter uma estratégia que contextualize o que são forças, fraquezas, oportunidades e ameaças]
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The superior approach is to perform an analysis only when you are clear on the specific purpose so that you can go a mile deep and an inch wide. That means you don’t do it up front as with the SWOT and you don’t attempt to make it excessively broad like the four-pronged SWOT. [Moi ici: Confesso que só cheguei a isto depois de desesperar com tantas análises de contexto, de acordo com a ISO 9001 e a ISO 14001, que não passam de pura perda de tempo. Por que é que se há-de competir por criar a maior lista possível de factores interos e externos? Recordo Running away from a plain and hard brainstorming (part Il)]
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Start by defining the strategy problem you are seeking to solve. That is, what is the gap between your aspirations and the outcomes you are seeking. Then specify the form of the solution by way of a ‘how might we’ question. That is, how might we eliminate the identified gap that we currently face. Then imagine possibilities of WTP/HTW choices that have the potential of answering the how might we question to eliminate the gap between aspirations and outcomes."
Quando eu era criança usava a SWOT como criança. Agora que sou mais velho uso-a mas de forma muito diferente.
"If you think about a normal decision process, it usually proceeds in four steps:
- You encounter a choice.
- You analyze your options.
- You make a choice.
- Then you live with it.
And what we've seen is that there is a villain that afflicts each of these stages:
- You encounter a choice. But narrow framing makes you miss options.
- You analyze your options. But the confirmation bias leads you to gather self-serving information.
- You make a choice. But short-term emotion will often tempt you to make the wrong one.
- Then you live with it. But you'll often be overconfident about how the future will unfold.
So, at this point, we know what we're up against. We know the four top villains of decision-making. We also know that the classic pros-and-cons approach is not well suited to fighting these villains; in fact, it doesn't meaningfully counteract any of them."
Trecho retirado de "DECISIVE - How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work" de Chip Heath and Dan Heath.
A propósito de:
o governo português deu 77 milhões a 2 empresas para criarem um bot, que hoje a OpenAI decidiu lançar como feature para os seus clientes. parabens Portugal! pic.twitter.com/bXdjXtv5Ps
— vd (@vd) November 6, 2023
Recordei logo Wardley-Martin. Sem qualquer relação com o tema destes dias, esta é a principal razão para ver com receio a aposta em grande do governo em tecnologias na fase do Mistério ou dos Pioneiros, como se estivéssemos na fase dos Algoritmos ou dos Town Settlers. Quem sabe o tempo que demora a passar-se de uma para a outra? Cada vez menos tempo. Esta manhã, sem fazer a relação com este tweet, pensei na quantidade de AI apps para sumarizar textos, todas numa luta implacável para ver qual a solução que vai triunfar e mandar no terreno como um eucalipto solitário. Acredito que vai ser muito rápido.
Como não recordar Baltimore e as conserveiras na bacia do rio Arade:
"só na cidade de Baltimore, antes de 1920 existiam 19 marcas fabricantes de automóveis" ou "Na bacia do Arade, deste lado do Parchal e Ferragudo e em Portimão, chegou a haver 23 fábricas de conservas."
Noutros tempos, de pioneers a settlers demorava mais de uma década. Agora, ...
"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." "