Comunico que me informaram da razão para a dificuldade de atracção referida na parte I.
Agora fica tudo mais claro. A navalha de Occam funciona mesmo, a explicação mais simples é a preferível.
O marketing é extraordinário.
Comunico que me informaram da razão para a dificuldade de atracção referida na parte I.
Agora fica tudo mais claro. A navalha de Occam funciona mesmo, a explicação mais simples é a preferível.
O marketing é extraordinário.
E volto a "A Growth Strategy for the Greek Economy":
"Global competition in all sectors of the economy, and particularly in manufacturing, demands a reduction in production costs through the introduction of advanced technologies, and the development of innovative high-quality products. Success in these areas requires R&D activities. However, R&D spending in Greece is low compared to other European countries. For example, in 2018, the R&D spending of Greek firms accounted for 0.57% of GDP, compared to 1.41% on average in the EU (Figure 5-13, Section 5.4)."
O texto sublinhado implica que à medida que os custos de produção baixam, o sistema produtivo tem de ser capaz de produzir e vender muito mais unidades para poder pagar o capital investido. Uma via difícil.
Outra vez, os autores não colocam a hipótese da economia se mover na horizontal.
A propósito, no JdN de ontem li:
"Se quando venceu as diretas o discurso foi criticado pela falta de preparação, no encerramento do 24.° congresso do PS Pedro Nuno Santos fez questão de dizer ao que vinha: pretende implementar um novo modelo "com mais dinheiro para menos setores" da economia,
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A grande mudança, anunciou, será feita - se vencer - na forma como os apoios passarão a ser atribuídos, selecionando "um número mais limitado de áreas estratégicas onde concentrar os apoios durante uma década". Defendeu que "é tempo de ser claro e de fazer escolhas [na atribuição de incentivos|". "Só conseguiremos transformara economia com mais dinheiro para menos setores.""
Quem segue este blogue sabe que eu cada vez mais torço o nariz ao efeito nefasto dos subsídios na economia. No entanto, o que acho interessante nesta proposta é saber quais são as áreas estratégicas. Quais os critérios para a sua definição? BTW, "picking winners" sempre deu asneira, daí a minha proposta de longa data "deixem as empresas morrer".
BTW, ainda acerca de Pedro Nuno Santos e este pormaior:
"Isto porque, explicou, "a economia está em profunda transformação", onde "a automatização, a robotização e a inteligência artificial têm um enorme potencial para aumentar a produtividade, mas trazem desafios". "Neste processo, muitos setores altamente lucrativos mas com poucos trabalhadores, deixam de contribuir para o sistema de segurançasocial tanto quanto poderiam e deveriam", enfatizou."
Que mais treta vai inventar ao melhor estilo do jogador de bilhar amador, tão focado na próxima jogada, na jogada imediata, que não se pensa nas consequências dessa jogada. Um clássico deste blogue: Nós não estudámos até ao fim todas as consequências das medidas que sugerimos.
Sempre preocupados em sacar e não em criar riqueza. Aquele "setores altamente lucrativos", faz-me logo pensar no Portugal actual, se ganhas mais de 1800 euros por mês já és rico pela bitola socialista.
Já nem a UE nos consegue salvar deste monstro fiscal.
Primeiro, pelo que vou lendo, tenho uma opinião positiva sobre a evolução da economia grega. Recordo, por exemplo este postal do início do passado mês de Dezembro, "A receita irlandesa na Grécia (parte II)", ou este outro publicado no início do passado mês de Outubro, "A receita irlandesa na Grécia".
Segundo, há dias escrevi este postal "Por causa de uns pastéis de nata (parte II)" que termina com um comentário a um video de Milei:
"Voltando agora ao vídeo de Milei. Simpatizo com a teoria, mas o desafio é criar as condições para que a evolução horizontal na figura acima possa ocorrer a uma velocidade tal que não torne a transição muito dura. Contudo, os governos fazem exactamente o oposto. Em vez de apoiarem o novo, apoiam os incumbentes, fica-se numa terra de ninguém tão bem descrita por Spender e Taleb."
Na passado Sexta-feira mão amiga mandou-me este artigo, "A Growth Strategy for the Greek Economy" que me levou ao original.
Escolhi começar pelo capítulo 3, "Vision and goals for the Greek economy" e o que li ... não me agradou:
"Employment in manufacturing has fallen internationally, but in Greece it has declined excessively. This is attributable to distortions that have led to too many self-employed individuals and small businesses that are dominant in the specific environment. In more technologically mature EU member states (the so-called EU15 group), the share of labour in the manufacturing sector was 20% in 2000, and just 14% in 2019. The reasons behind this reduction are new technologies and globalisation, in particular China's emergence and its impact on international trade. In Greece, 14% of the labour force was employed in manufacturing in 2000 and 8.2% in 2019. Based on Greece's technological lag compared to the EU15 countries and its relatively closed economy, one would expect that the share of employment in manufacturing would be larger than in the EU15. Indicatively, in Portugal, which is at the same technological level as Greece, 22.7% of the labour force was employed in manufacturing in 2000 and 17.6% in 2019.
It is important to contain the reduction of employment in Greece's manufacturing sector and to achieve a convergence to the EU average. Currently, Greece exhibits one of the lowest shares of manufacturing activity in the EU, comparable only with the Netherlands and the Nordic countries - economies with much higher per capita income and greater industrial maturity. Policy proposals for enhancing Greece's manufacturing sector, and the remaining sectors examined in this section, are examined in detail in Chapter 6. This section summarises the main directions.
The support of salaried employment is critical to the growth of the manufacturing sector in Greece. Greek manufacturing firms are generally small, in part due to the particularly high number of self-employed in the services sector. When measures to support salaried employment are adopted, these businesses will have a greater comparative advantage in the international markets and will grow."
E recuo a 2006 e à ideia de Blanchard sobre a redução de salários para aumentar a produtividade que comentei em "Redução dos salários em Portugal" (Blanchard retratou-se em 2017). E recordo Reinert e o caso do Uganda e o quadrante do empobrecimento.
O que os autores propõem no artigo citado acima é aumentar a competitividade das empresas apoiando-as no pagamento dos salários dos seus trabalhadores. Weird!!!
O que estes autores não perceberam ainda foi a necessidade do que escrevi acima "mas o desafio é criar as condições para que a evolução horizontal na figura acima possa ocorrer a uma velocidade tal que não torne a transição muito dura". Não conseguem ganhar produtividade a proteger o passado.
No Dinheiro Vivo de Ontem em "Luís Onofre "Ajudámos os bancos na altura da troika, é tempo dos bancos ajudarem as empresas"" sublinhei:
"A falta de mão-de-obra ainda é um problema?
A especializada, sim. Eu tenho um défice de quase uma dúzia de pessoas na minha empresa e não consigo arranjá-las. E para a conseguirmos especializar um trabalhador é muito complicado, as pessoas acabam por desistir e preferem ir para restauração e o turismo."
Tão estranho... a empresa de Luís Onofre não será das mais pobres do sector e, mesmo assim, não consegue ser mais atraente que a restauração e o turismo? Por que será?
Esta pergunta é genuína, mesmo.
No JN de 4 de Janeiro passado li "Sonae encerra supermercados Go Natural até final do mês".
Recordei logo o fim da Berg em Onde a vai expôr?.
Recordei Sem estar com as mãos na massa...
Recordei Vou apenas especular.
Quando fogem do negócio do preço ... sofrem do que referimos há poucos dias Não é impunemente ...
"The tricky thing about the confirmation bias is that it can look very scientific. After all, we're collecting data. Dan Lovallo, the professor and decision-making researcher cited in the introduction, said, "Confirmation bias is probably the single biggest problem in business, because even the most sophisticated people get it wrong. People go out and they're collecting the data, and they don't realize they're cooking the books." At work and in life, we often pretend that we want truth when we're really seeking reassurance: "Do these jeans make me look fat?" "What did you think of my poem?" These questions do not crave honest answers.
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The odds of a meltdown are one in 10,000 years.
—Vitali Sklyarov, minister of power and electrification in the Ukraine, two months before the Chernobyl accident
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
—Harry Warner, Warner Bros. Studios, 1927
What use could this company make of an electrical toy?
—William Orton, president of the Western Union Telegraph Company, in 1876, rejecting an opportunity to purchase Alexander Graham Bell's patent on the telephone
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A study showed that when doctors reckoned themselves "completely certain" about a diagnosis, they were wrong 40% of the time. When a group of students made estimates that they believed had only a 1% chance of being wrong, they were actually wrong 27% of the time. We have too much confidence in our own predictions. When we make guesses about the future, we shine our spotlights on information that's close at hand, and then we draw conclusions from that information.
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The problem is that we don't know what we don't know. ...
The future has an uncanny ability to surprise. We can't shine a spotlight on areas when we don't know they exist."
Trechos retirados de "Decisive - How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work" de Chip and Dan Heath.
"Dutch supermarket chain Jumbo said that shoplifting exceeded its annual profits last year, highlighting how the cost of living crisis has driven up crime and is hurting businesses.
The group said yesterday that theft cost it more than €100mn in 2023, against forecast annual post-tax profit of around €80mn.
Retailers worldwide have reported an increase in shoplifting as soaring inflation raised prices faster than wages."
Trecho retirado do FT de hoje, "Dutch supermarket chain Jumbo reels after shoplifting losses exceed annual post-tax profit"
Primeiro, recomendo a visualização deste discuro de Milei:
How import tariffs weaken the economy and your wallet.#milei #argentina #economy #tariffs #imports #entrepreneurs #wages #openeconomy #freetrade pic.twitter.com/zuoUWNMRo2
— Milei Explains (@Milei_Explains) November 26, 2023
Agora vamos à visão tradicional dos bens transacionáveis:
É tabu mexer no numerador porque se vê o numerador como um dado e não como uma variável.Qual a lei da vida nos negócios? Recordar de 2010 The Knowledge Funnel (parte I)
"Price is like gravity,it always goes down if you do nothing"Como se reduzem os custos?
"Em outubro de 2019, um ano depois de ter chegado a Portugal, o grupo Nuvi concluía que o seu negócio de mobiliário e decoração em território nacional não estava a correr bem, tendo contratado John Leitão para liderar a Kinda.Filho de pai português e mãe inglesa, John Leitão nasceu em Londres em fevereiro de 1981, cresceu em Portugal e formou-se em Engenharia Informática pela Universidade Nova de Lisboa, mas trocou os computadores por uma carreira na consultoria.Tirou um MBA na Harvard Business School e iniciou a sua vida profissional na Boston Consulting Group (BCG), ao serviço do qual trabalhou em diversas geografias e indústrias, sobretudo no retalho e no marketing.Chegou a estar um ano no escritório da BCG em Sidney, na Austrália, tendo saído da consultoria em maio de 2013 para o cargo de CEO da marca de alta joalharia e relojoaria suíça de luxo Grisogono, onde se manteve mais de cinco anos.Voltou à BCG em 2019, tendo em novembro desse ano assumido o cargo de CEO da Kinda, de onde saiu há pouco mais de dois meses.Agora já sem Leitão, a empresa comunicou aos seus trabalhadores que a Kinda vai fechar e avançar com um despedimento coletivo."
Já escrevi várias vezes sobre este tipo de erro. Recordo o salto de Ron Johnson das lojas da Apple para CEO da JC Penney, e recordo de Julho de 2023, acerca do futuro da Mercedes, Uma pena ...:
"O que quer dizer, acerca do futuro da Mercedes-Benz, que o próximo CEO seja alguém educado no mundo das commodities químicas?
Esse alguém aprendeu uma série de truques, de mnemónicas, de respostas instintivas numa indústria de bolas azuis.
Quer dizer que o futuro estratégico da Mercedes-Benz passa por um mundo de bolas azuis?
Quer dizer que o board da Mercedes-Benz acredita que a empresa tem de operar num mundo de bolas azuis?"
Não é impunemente que se vivem e se acumulam experiências de gestão.
No Financial Times de 27 de Janeiro último encontrei o artigo, "Patient monitoring - Al fridges cut readmissions to hospital in NHS pilot":
"A pilot scheme using artificial intelligence in kettles and fridges to monitor discharged hospital patients in England has reduced unplanned readmissions by 77 per cent, its creators have said.
The Onward Care scheme, developed in partnership with Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust in south-east England, is the first of its kind to be used in the health service.
"Al is here to work with us," said Jenny Ricketts, deputy chief operating officer for the trust. "Not to do the job for us. People, especially the elderly, like human contact. The Al just makes it easier for us to do that."
The system operates by linking AI electronic sensors on kettles and fridges to detect changes in drinking and eating patterns. Variances are then flagged with a member of the Onward Care programme who can arrange help.
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Adrian McCourt, managing director of the Onward Care service, said the pilot had supported about 140 people at home for 12 weeks after they were discharged from hospital.
He estimated that on average 40 per cent of "frail" patients who may not have fully recovered are readmitted to hospital within six months of being discharged. Under the pilot, he said, this figure has been reduced by 77 per cent. A box similar to Amazon's Alexa voice assistant is put in people's homes. Data is fed into a central dashboard.
"If a patient's behaviour is changing we get a notification which prompts us to investigate," McCourt said. "We also have sensors on fridges and kettles, which we use to understand whether hydration and nutrition is changing."
Há dias o @romeu publicou este tweet:
Meanwhile em Nova Iorque os pastéis de nata também têm de pagar a renda 😱☠️😂 pic.twitter.com/vKMWGX0DdW
— Romeu Monteïro 🇺🇦🇮🇱 (@romeu) December 27, 2023
Pastéis de nata à venda em Nova Iorque a 4 dólares a unidade. E o comentário dele "os pastéis de nata também têm de pagar a renda".
Este tweet é, para citar FCF, paradigmático.
No mesmo dia deste tweet a capa do JdN trazia:
Só aumentos de produtividade importantes podem garantir o aumento dos salários sem aumento do desemprego. Contudo, penso que esses aumentos de produtividade importantes não poderão ser feitos sem aumento da turbulência empresarial.
Voltemos aos pastéis de nata.
Comecemos pela nossa velha conhecida equação sobre a produtividade e o Evangelho do Valor:
Vivemos num país onde quando se fala de aumentar a produtividade fala-se em reduzir o denominador da equação acima porque se considera que o numerador é um dado e não uma variável. Por isso, no resto do postal vamos ignorar as mexidas no denominador. Recordo:No DN de 27.12.2023 encontrei este artigo de opinião, "O retumbante sucesso do friendshoring americano":
"Na sequência de uma ordem executiva de 2021 do presidente dos EUA, instruindo a sua Administração a realizar uma revisão das principais cadeias de abastecimento dos EUA, a secretária do Tesouro dos EUA, falando no Atlantic Council, em abril de 2022, anunciou uma nova abordagem da Administração Biden para navegar numa economia global mais adversa a interesses americanos, chamando-a de friendshoring.
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Esta nova política estado-unidense de busca de cadeias de abastecimento mais resilientes entre parceiros de confiança, através de friendshoring, tem um principal destinatário - a China e as empresas chinesas - e tem-se traduzido em iniciativas como a adoção do CHIPS and Science Act, que têm sido complementadas por outras como o US-EU Trade and Technology Council (TTC), o Minerals Security Partnership (MSP), o Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF), e a America's Partnership for Economic Prosperity, para "interagir com parceiros confiáveis" e "reduzir as dependências de fontes não-confiáveis de fornecimento estratégico".
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No plano do comércio externo, o friendshoring aparenta ser um retumbante sucesso. Em menos de dois anos, o México e o Canadá (friendshoring+ nearshoring) ultrapassaram a China como principais fornecedores de bens dos EUA em cadeias de abastecimento diversificadas. As importações dos EUA da China caem 25% no primeiro semestre de 2023; desde 2019, o superavit comercial bilateral do México com os EUA aumentou 40%. A China é agora apenas o terceiro maior fornecedor dos EUA. De acordo com alguns, o aumento das importações dos países vizinhos e parceiros na NAFTA reflete mudanças na procura dos consumidores e na diversificação da cadeia de abastecimento liderada pela pandemia.
As estatísticas mostram também que as exportações chinesas para países que estão a subir no ranking de fontes de importação dos EUA estão a aumentar. O fenómeno não é inédito. Temos vindo a assistir ao desvio comercial de produtos ocidentais para a Rússia através da Ásia Central. A extraordinária coincidência de aumento de fluxos de exportações da China para o México e o Canadá e destes dois países para os EUA leva um articulista da Bloomberga sugerir que as empresas chinesas estão a redirecionar boa parte das suas exportações. Quando ficar claro em Washington que o brilhante plano de friendshoring gera redirecionamento de produtos exportados por empresas chinesas para os EUA via México (e Canadá), é bem possível que tal gere uma nova onda de reação protecionista americana."
Há exactamente uma semana, a diretora comercial de uma empresa de fabrico de máquinas, todas destinadas à exportação, contactou-me para discutir o seu excelente ano. Ela partilhou o sucesso crescente no mercado norte-americano. Recordando que os conheci quando exploravam a América Latina e Sul, inquiri sobre as vendas e presença em países como Chile, El Salvador e México. Ela revelou que um cliente mexicano lhe mencionou a intenção de abrir uma fábrica nos EUA, visando contornar a legislação americana que visa limitar importações do México, devido à recente instalação de empresas chinesas aproveitando a política mencionada no artigo.
Não é uma previsão, é algo que já está a acontecer.
"Many things go into making wine—elements you can’t do much to change, such as the land and the climate, and those you can, such as the grape varieties you plant, how you tend them, when you harvest, how you turn them into wine, and the blend you make. First you must choose the right vines. About 1,500 varieties are available in France. That’s why we have the appellation system: It specifies the varieties that should be used in each region so that the wine produced is recognizably from there. Within those constraints, however, viticulturists have considerable freedom to make choices, such as cutting back on Syrah to add more Grenache, which grows better in the volcanic soils of our region and helps achieve the potential of a terroir with greater minerality. How growers tend the vines is also up to them. They may choose biodynamics to prioritize the health of the plants and the quality of the taste over productivity and consistency. The choice of when to harvest depends on 1,001 different judgments about the weather and how the grapes have ripened. Decisions regarding fermentation and storage can sometimes be precisely determined and other times depend on intuition and experience.Finally comes blending—my favorite part. Intuition is critical here, because in any given vineyard we may be tasting 50 varieties of grapes grown on different plots. Potential combinations number in the millions, and we can’t calculate our way to the best one. My father was a master blender. He taught me that as the grapes ripen over the critical two-month harvesting period, you must do many tastings each day so that when you need to decide which grapes to blend in which proportions from which plots, you really understand what’s going into the bottle."
Na revista MIT Sloan Management Review do Inverno de 2024 encontrei o artigo "The Looming Challenge of Chemical Disclosures" de Lori Bestervelt, Colleen McLoughlin, e Jillian Stacy.
O artigo discute a crescente pressão regulatória sobre as marcas para compreender e divulgar a composição química dos seus produtos ao longo dos seus ciclos de vida. Isso inclui impactes desde a produção até ao destino final. O desafio reside na falta de conhecimento detalhado sobre os produtos químicos nas cadeias de abastecimento, uma vez que as actuais fichas de dados de segurança estão frequentemente incompletas. As marcas enfrentam dificuldades na obtenção de formulações químicas detalhadas dos fornecedores e precisam de investir em avaliações abrangentes dos perigos químicos. O artigo enfatiza a importância da transparência, da colaboração com fornecedores e da integração de avaliações de riscos químicos nos processos empresariais para uma abordagem mais sustentável.
Recordo experiência no sector do calçado em que vários fabricantes de produtos usados no processo de fabrico do calçado, como tintas e palmilhas, se recusavam a cumprir a lei no âmbito dos regulamentos comunitários abrangidos pelo REACH ((Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals). Portanto, enquanto uns vêem riscos, outros podem ver oportunidades para o negócio: A transparência e a colaboração entre marcas e fornecedores são essenciais para mitigar riscos e aproveitar essas oportunidades.
Agora são os Estados Unidos.
"New sustainability rules make consumer brands accountable for the composition of their products, but most companies are in the dark.
New and emerging rules in the U.S. responsible for the environmental impacts of products through their entire life cycles are forcing brands to confront a striking knowledge gap: their often inadequate understanding of the chemicals found in their supply chains.
The European Green Deal's Circular Economy Action Plan, which was adopted in March 2020; newly proposed eco-design rules affecting fashion and textiles; and the proposed Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive will require companies to disclose any risks to human rights and the environment. They apply throughout the product life cycle, from the formulation of ingredients and materials to product manufacturing, packaging and distribution, and recycling and disposal. In the U.S., four states — California, Colorado, Maine, and Oregon — have adopted extended producer responsibility laws aimed at packaging materials, and the issue will be a focal point of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's eventual Scope 3 supply chain requirements. On top of such legislation, a host of new regulatory actions focused on materials sourcing and disposal, safety in global supply chains, and the protection of employee safety and human rights are rolling out in jurisdictions around the world. These rules pose a challenge for many of the brands that manufacture, market, and sell the clothes we wear, the cosmetics we apply, and the toys our kids play with, because their companies have very little visibility into the detailed chemical composition of their products.
In the face of regulatory developments, fashion brands have had to reconsider their use of materials, dyes, and a host of chemicals that have been linked to deforestation and pollution. They also need to be able to trace these compounds through every link in the supply chain.
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Most brands have relied on safety data sheets (SDSs) provided by their suppliers for information on product chemical composition. However, these documents are designed primarily to disclose information on chemicals and chemical compounds that could harm workers or others in the supply chain. They don't provide detailed information on the chemical composition of every material used in a product or offer any meaningful insight into its impact on recycling and disposal.
In our work conducting chemical hazard assessments and product toxicology analyses for some of the world's largest brands, approximately one-third of the SDSs we reviewed contained incomplete or inaccurate information on the chemical makeup of the products and materials they covered. Whether that is a result of suppliers intentionally omitting information or a reflection of the limitations of the SDS as a disclosure tool, the end result is that the brands responsible for these products are often in the dark about what's inside them.
Filling in the gap between the basic information provided in SDSs and the detailed disclosures that will soon be required by global authorities has become a source of conflict and confusion for many brands. Some suppliers are reluctant to share detailed chemical formulations to protect trade secrets, and many brands have been unwilling (or unable) to invest in costly chemistry assessments.
We expect that this problem will be addressed in two ways. First, the market will likely shift to suppliers that can attest to the safety of their products and processes.
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Second, companies will have to invest in detailed chemical screening to provide more comprehensive hazard assessments and full formulation disclosures. This approach has also been gaining in popularity as brands seek certainty and an objective means of evaluating their suppliers.
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The critical first step in the process of removing toxic substances from a supply chain is systematically identifying them. For example, we recently worked on a project with a global footwear brand that had a companywide mission to make its rubber supply chain more environmentally sustainable. It began by building a comprehensive database of its current chemical inventory and checking all entries against a list of known toxins and regulated chemicals in each jurisdiction in which it operates. Only then could it start the process of transitioning to safer chemicals.
As they make progress, brands need to build this institutional knowledge into their sourcing and product development processes to mitigate or eliminate the harmful chemical impacts of future products throughout their life cycles.
In the long run, these initiatives will result in safer, more sustainable consumer products. In the near term, however, expect to see a great deal of disruption and reshuffling of supply chains as more brands start to recognize that the tried-and-true methods of manufacturing and distribution are no longer sufficient in today's sustainability-oriented economy."
A verdade é que cada vez mais nas minhas relações encontro pessoas que fazem escolhas com base nestes pressupostos. Por exemplo, na comida:
A imagem que se segue ilustra uma falha corrente na definição dos planos de acção para atingir um objectivo:
Quer-se reduzir o consumo de papel em 10% em 12 meses.A sério?
Que contas fizeram? Que investigação fizeram? Têm a certeza que estas duas actividades permitem reduzir o consumo de papel em 10%?
Muitas vezes não há qualquer fundamento para justificar que as acções são necessárias e suficientes.
Se repararem, as acções previstas quase não requerem capital... esse costuma ser o alerta que me chama a atenção: planos de acção que não requerem capital são, normalmente, planos da treta. Saltos para a solução. Helicópteros! Muito barulho e energia cinética, mas nenhum movimento em frente.
"Research shows that companies devote too little effort to examining problems before trying to solve them. By jumping immediately into problem-solving, teams limit their ability to design innovative solutions....As teams use the methodology, they must understand that problem-framing in today’s intricate business landscape is rarely a linear process. While we’re attempting to provide a structured path, we also recognize the dynamic nature of problems and the need for adaptability."
Nasceu o Salvador!!!
"The Child born on earth, in lowliness, in the crib, before the shepherds, is born this day in heaven in glory, in magnificence, in majesty: and the day in which He is born is eternity. He is born forever, All-Power, All-Wisdom, begotten before the day-star: He is the beginning and the end, everlastingly born of the Father, the Infinite God: and He Himself is the same God, God of God, Light of Light, True God of True God. God born of Himself, forever: Himself His own second Person: One, yet born of Himself forever. He it is also that is born each instant in our hearts: for this unending birth, this everlasting beginning, without end, this everlasting, perfect newness of God begotten of Himself, issuing from Himself without leaving Himself or altering His one-ness, this is the life that is in us. But see: He is suddenly born again, also, on this altar, upon that cloth and corporal as white as snow beneath the burning lights, and raised up above us in the hush of the consecration! Christ, the Child of God, the Son, made Flesh, with His Allpower. What will You say to me, this Christmas, O Jesus? What is it that You have prepared for me at Your Nativity?"
Trecho retirado de "The Seven Storey Mountain" de Thomas Merton.
"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." "