Um grande silêncio reina sobre a terra.
"Acredita até ao fim, mesmo que todos os homens se desviem e fiques sendo o único fiel; traz a tua oferta mesmo assim e louva a Deus na tua solidão."
Um grande silêncio reina sobre a terra.
"Acredita até ao fim, mesmo que todos os homens se desviem e fiques sendo o único fiel; traz a tua oferta mesmo assim e louva a Deus na tua solidão."
E volto à leitura de "The World of Work to 2030" para encontrar uma série de textos que parecem tirados deste blogue. Textos acerca de como competir em Mongo:
"You just won't see it coming
Buyers, whether businesses or consumers, will become even more swamped by choice than they are today. This means you will have to fight harder to rise above the noise of the competition. [Moi ici: Uma paisagem cada vez mais enrugada, cada vez mais picos]
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Focus and Size
The forces playing out mean that companies everywhere will face continual, relentless, competitive threats. This poses an obvious question: How to respond?
To succeed in the future, companies will be forced to think consciously about what they are and how they do it. With competition becoming incessant and global, companies will need to decide what they do, what market they will focus on and where they will specialize. Most importantly, at the same time, they will consciously decide what they are not, which markets they are not focusing on and where they will not specialize.
This merely echoes what Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter said when defining strategy: 'the essence of strategy, is choosing what not to do.'
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Just say 'no'
The challenge in business (and to a similar extent in our personal lives) is that we seek to do too much ourselves. When a customer calls us asking for help, or wanting a different product or a different service, we dislike saying no. The same thing happens in our personal lives where we seek to do everything - all the tasks that life presents us with, from gardening to decorating - and to be expert in them all. No business can be expert in everything. It is exceptionally easy to say 'yes' to a customer. But as we progress further away from what we are good at, from what we are known for and from where our expertise lies, the thinner the ice on which we are skating and the greater the risk in something going wrong.
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To be successful, companies will not be able to be all things to all customers. They can't spread themselves too thin being, in effect, wide and shallow. If they do, competition will swarm around them, nibbling away and they will suffer the death of a thousand cuts. Rather, to succeed and protect themselves, businesses will define their purpose more narrowly, more specifically, and will then seek to achieve depth, seeking dominance of that narrow space. Going forward, successful businesses will no longer be generalists: average will no longer be enough, depth and specialism will be critical.
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Being a generalist is not sustainable. Focus and depth of specialism, combined with scale in that specialism, is needed in order to be successful."
Como não recuar a 2006 e a "Deixar de ser uma Arca de Noé".
Como não reflectir nesta incoerência recente e sinto que algo não bate certo.
Como não ligar ao ainda fresco Os últimos moicanos.
Há mais de 15 anos li o meu primeiro livro de Adrian Slywotzky, "Value Migration". Gostei tanto que nos anos seguintes li mais seis.
Era capaz de jurar a pés juntos que foi num desses livros que li um caso sobre um fabricante de televisores a preto e branco que em vez de fechar, ou de avançar para os televisores a cores, se focou em tirar o melhor partido possível dessa tecnologia "obsoleta", e fazer prolongar o tempo de vida. Já procurei e voltei a procurar e não consigo encontrar esse caso.
Penso muitas vezes nesse caso quando penso no futuro das empresas dos sectores tradicionais, num mundo em que os custos sobem e os preços não conseguem acompanhar. Algo ilustrado pelo já clássico triângulo dos "Flying Geese".
Segunda-feira passada voltei a recordar isto quando dei de caras com este artigo "When firms may benefit from sticking with an old technology".
O artigo sugere que as empresas podem alcançar um aumento de desempenho mantendo a tecnologia antiga em mercados com descontinuidades tecnológicas, aqui é mais incapacidade de subir margens, pelas seguintes razões:
Julgo que com as empresas dos sectores tradicionais falamos sobretudo de trabalhar a heterogeneidade de preferência do cliente e nichos sustentáveis. Isto implica repensar a missão e a identidade da empresa, como compete e, por isso, como deve operar.
Completamente alinhado com a parte III, nomeadamente:
"Podem querer o que quiserem, mas a opção que tomarem tem custos."
Desta vez é Ricardo Reis no caderno de Economia do semanário Expresso do passado Sábado:
"É verdade que os portugueses não querem alguns dos empregos que os imigrantes têm em Portugal. Mas, não os querem, em parte, porque eles têm más condições. Em muitas ocupações, incluindo na agricultura, há máquinas e robôs que podiam fazer o trabalho mais árduo, deixando os humanos para as tarefas mais agradáveis. Sem imigrantes, ficava mais caro, e seríamos menos competitivos no caso das exportações, mas produziríamos à mesma. Os imigrantes permitem produzir mais barato, mas teríamos estufas e abacates na mesma sem eles. [Moi ici: Sem imigrantes, em vez de prolongar produções pouco produtivas, as empresas para sobreviverem teriam de evoluir para produções de maior valor acrescentado. A velha lição do canadiano. Assim, seguem-se estratégias cancerosas assentes em competitividade empobrecedora]"
Não esquecer a má, ainda do Capítulo 10 do livro “Cracked It! How to solve big problems and sell solutions like top strategy consultants:”
"people can better understand and remember a set of ideas if they can mentally organize these ideas around a coherent pattern or logical structure.
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To understand other people's thoughts and be convinced of what they are telling us, we must "see" how their ideas are connected in a recognizable structure. The tighter the connections and the simpler the structure-the stronger the coherence-the more convincing the story.
For business recommendations, [Barbara] Minto argues that the most efficient communication structure is a top -down pyramid that starts with communicating the core message-the "governing thought" —head-on, and then turns to a "key line" of arguments that support it, while also announcing the plan of the report. The core message must jump off the page immediately and pave the way for the later points that collectively justify or detail it. If you adopt this pyramidal communication strategy, the audience will see the big picture first and realize that all the ideas fit in a simple and visible pattern. This will free their minds and make them receptive to the core message and the overall content.
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Pave the Way for a DialogueStating the governing thought and the main points of your presentation from the get-go is critical to selling your solution effectively. Having a relevant core message isn't enough. It must also be concise and set a clear direction. Because you begin with it, you can't prepare your audience for it, so you can be sure it will trigger questions. You might think it's safer and more logical to keep the core message for the end, as a conclusive punchline that closes your narrative. We strongly disagree. While you save a punchline for the end of a speech to wrap it up, you state a governing thought from the get-go to pave the way for a dialogue in which you will answer the audience's questions. A governing thought sets direction, like a keynote in music or a compass in navigation. Use your core message as a governing thought that drives a conversation with the problem owner, instead of using it as a punchline that puts an end to this conversation....
Using the pyramid principle to develop an elevator pitch means you must formulate your core message concisely and be able to answer in a few words the first questions that come to the mind of the problem owner. Broadly speaking, these questions typically belong to two categories: "why" and "how" questions. You'll be asked a "why" question if the problem owner remains unconvinced about your solution. You'll be asked a "how" question if she's convinced but wants to know more about how to implement the recommendation. The key line that supports the governing thought must contain the answers to these "why" and "how" questions."
Ainda esta semana tive a experiência de perder 55 minutos numa apresentação e só nos últimos 5 minutos aparecer a mensagem essencial.
Mais umas notas retiradas do livro “Cracked It! How to solve big problems and sell solutions like top strategy consultants,” agora do Capítulo V.
"Fourth, hypothesis-driven thinking can lead you to communicate the solution before solving the problem. Part of the appeal of a hypothesis pyramid is that its logic is the same as the structure of a story that sells the candidate solution. But this confusion creates risks. Would you want to see the same thinking in the White House's situation room as in its press room? In the situation room, the focus is (or should be) on finding the best solution to deal with a crisis. In the press room, the press secretary sells the solution to the press corps and the world. Identifying candidate solutions based only on what can be sold to an audience is dangerous. [...] [Moi ici: O que fazem os políticos actuais?]
Finally, hypothesis-driven problem structuring can lead to the solution confirmation pitfall. A hypothesis that looks sensible can lead problem solvers to be more inclined to search for and be receptive to information that confirms it rather than information that disconfirms their belief in its soundness. Even the most experienced problem solvers can fall into this trap—the more experienced and successful they are, the greater the repertoire of cases in their mental libraries, the more likely they are to trust their instincts, increasing the risk of confirmation bias." [Moi ici: Não é impunemente que se adquire experiência]
"Don't Tell the Story of the Search, Tell the Story of the Solution
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A major flaw in the memo is that this message is not readily apparent. It’s buried near the end. We had to wait until the second-to-last paragraph to know the punch line. Aspiring journalists are told: “don’t bury the lede.” The lede (or “lead”) is the most important part of the story being told, which should be concisely stated up front.
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The underlying flaw is typical: the writer is reporting his problem-solving process instead of explaining the recommendation and its rationale to the problem owner. The memo reads like an issue tree, not a recommendation for action. The writer starts by stating the problem, then covers the way he structured it, the analyses he performed and their results, without explaining how any of it supports the core message.
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This mistake is pervasive. Because we've spent so much time engaged in the problem-solving process, it becomes the de facto structure we use to articulate our solution. We may also be keen to demonstrate to the problem owner the hard work we've done and explain the difficult steps we went through to arrive at the solution we are presenting. It's tempting to tell the story of the search instead of telling the story of the solution.
This is, however, an ineffective approach to selling a solution. Decision-makers aren't like readers of crime novels, who enjoy identifying with the detective and his erratic thought process, and revel in waiting to find out whodunit. They don't want you to bury your core message in adventurous twists and turns. They aren't interested in hearing about the clever and challenging analyses you performed if this doesn't help sell your solution. They just want to hear your recommendation and be able to determine whether they agree with it and the reasoning behind it. They need a clear and compelling story that persuades them to buy what you're pitching."
Trechos retirados do Capítulo 10 do livro “Cracked It! How to solve big problems and sell solutions like top strategy consultants.”
Parte IV, Parte III, Parte II e Parte I.
E foram preciso quase quatro anos para se instalar alguma racionalidade económica, "Efacec vai abandonar áreas de negócio não rentáveis e pondera despedimento coletivo", entretanto torraram-se mais uns milhões em impostos.
Pobre vida de saxão...
Na semana passada estava numa reunião atolado numa discussão sobre um indicador de desempenho para um processo. Abstraí-me da reunião por uns momentos, copiei o texto da finalidade do processo e perguntei ao ChatGPT que indicadores me sugeria. Ofereceu-me doze indicadores. Escolhi três e apresentei-os aos participantes na reunião.
A discussão voltou a engrenar e dois dos três indicadores foram revistos e aprovados.
Entretanto, ontem de manhã cedo encontrei este tweet:
According to new @mitsmr research, organizations that use AI to improve existing KPIs or create new ones realize more business benefits than organizations that adjust their KPIs without AI.
— Brian Solis (@briansolis) March 18, 2024
The research identified three ways to enhance strategic metrics with AI:
1) Improve… pic.twitter.com/L7ToP88jJ9
Eis as minhas notas de The Future of Strategic Measurement: Enhancing KPIs With Al:
"Executives who recognize the power and potential of Al-enabled KPIs acknowledge that their current KPI design and review practices are anachronistic. More and more companies are rising to this challenge by embedding governance processes and functions to oversee KPI development. KPI governance mechanisms that maintain
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A common corporate objective is to improve KPIs over time. Our research shows that using Al is one of the most effective ways to enhance KPIs.
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Six out of 10 survey respondents agree that improving their KPIs (in terms of what gets measured and how it gets measured), not just improving performance, is critical for effective decision-making. Every executive we interviewed explicitly declared that improving KPIs with Al is an enterprise interest, and it is an immediate priority for several.
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We see three ways that Al-enriched KPIs improve on legacy metrics that simply track performance. Smart KPIs better describe ongoing and past performance, more effectively anticipate future performance, and make more useful recommendations to promote outcomes. These three types of smart KPIs (descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive) map to a well-known distinction between descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics.
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Identifying strategic and operational KPIs is a common function of human leadership teams. Yet our research confirms that Al - not only humans - can propose and even design new and novel KPIs to guide executive decisionmaking. We heard story after story of leaders turning to algorithms to source key performance metrics that are not only strategically and operationally valuable but, in some cases, derived from data patterns too complicated for humans to discern."
Este é mais um postal que me faz perder clientes, porque distingo o Carlos consultor do Carlos cidadão.
Ontem no seu programa matinal, "A Cor do Dinheiro", Camilo Lourenço disse que o sector têxtil é um sector de excelência.
"Por que é que continuamos tão dependentes de fundos europeus?Neste caso, pelo que estamos a perceber, toda uma operação [Moi ici: Promoção internacional das empresas] que devia ser suportada por uma indústria, a indústria têxtil e de lanifícios do Norte, toda essa operação era paga em 50%, talvez mais, por fundos europeus."
Volta e meia aparecem estes cromos nas redes sociais:
Por falar em patrões, sim, Portugal é - de longe - um dos países da Europa com os patrões (gerentes) e gestores menos qualificados da Europa. Já que se fala tanto em aumentar competitividade, produção e "crescer", convinha olhar para esta realidade💡
— o Ferreira (@guilhaweb) March 18, 2024
1/2 pic.twitter.com/lC5KK8BuhI
Como se a culpa fosse de quem aparece e dá a cara.
Acerca da produtividade escrevo aqui muitas vezes sobre os mastins dos Baskerville. Esses é que nos deveriam interrogar, os que estão ausentes. Recordo Empresários e escolaridade ou signaling.
Li no ECO "Parar de crescer é começar a morrer":
"Se uma empresa não cresce, definha e morre.
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crescer é mais do que um objetivo, é um desígnio essencial.
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A internacionalização só contribui a sério para o fortalecimento, a valorização e a preservação a longo prazo do capital acionista se as empresas tiverem escala. Dos que não se lancem a sério, com coragem, em processos de crescimento ambiciosos não vai rezar a História, nem sequer no mercado doméstico."
Sabem qual o meu problema com este artigo? Crescer à custa da escala (volume).
As empresas podem crescer à custa da escala (volume), à custa do denominador da equação da produtividade a produzir mais do mesmo, ou podem crescer à custa da subida na escala de valor, à custa do numerador da equação da produtividade a produzir coisas diferentes, coisas com maior valor acrescentado.
O racional é o mesmo do agricultor que só consegue aumentar a produção trabalhando mais e mais terra, é a via cancerosa.
Entretanto, já depois de escrever o que está para trás. Deparo com este tweet:
A última vez que pensei no assunto foi no mês passado quando descobri quem é o novo líder máximo da Cruz Vermelha Portuguesa. A minha mente começou logo a imaginar quais os seus critérios de decisão, qual a sua experiência de decisão, o que é que automaticamente lhe aparece na cabeça quando tem de tomar uma decisão.
Como escrevi em Não é impunemente ...
"Não é impunemente que se vivem e se acumulam experiências de gestão.
Por que volto agora ao tema? Por causa de um dos casos de estudo apresentado no Capítulo II do livro “Cracked It! How to solve big problems and sell solutions like top strategy consultants.” Um caso, já aqui referido várias vezes no blogue, de Ron Johnson à frente da J.C. Penney:
"Johnson began his tenure as CEO on November 1, 2011, and quickly pursued dramatic changes.
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By April 2013 Johnson was out as CEO, only 18 months after he started.
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There are clear signs that Johnson fell into the solution confirmation trap. Both his merchandising strategy— branded products sold at undiscounted prices in cool-looking stores— and the way he promoted it, with Steve Jobs style keynote speeches, seem lifted from the Apple playbook. And once his mind was set on making this Apple-style strategy work for J.C. Penney, Johnson paid no attention to signs it was failing. Those who questioned the strategy or advised him to slow down its execution were dismissed, because, Johnson assured, "skepticism takes the oxygen out of innovation."
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This is puzzling. Johnson was an experienced, highly successful retail executive, described by some press reports as "an industry icon" who "turns anything he touches to gold."
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When we tackle a complex and multifaceted problem that we superficially understand, it can seem intractably broad. In these cases, it's tempting to frame the problem narrowly to make it look like one we've worked on before. We can then reason by (superficial) analogy to quickly identify a solution instead of investing in thoroughly understanding the problem."
Num outro nível também o tema por um outro prisma, quando as revistas de gestão,ou os jornais entrevistam CEOs de empresas grandes é um perigo os decisores das empresas mais pequenas pensarem que podem copiar o que lêem.
Recordar o que tenho escrito aqui ao longo dos anos sobre a Zara e as tiradas de preocupação com o ambiente:
Principais medidas da proposta aprovada:
"Consider ’work’. Work remains a dominating and defining part of our lives. We spend one third of our time doing it; increasingly more time than we spend with our loved ones.
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Work is, and has always tended to be, one of the most defining aspects of our lives. ... Work is where we obtain purpose and meaning; where we meet friends, socialize and have community (and in an increasingly secular society it is one of the few remaining places where we can get sense of community); it is where we get motivated and engaged; where we can create and solve.
On the flip side, work can also drive us to utter exasperation and frustration; where we feel our efforts are a waste of time; where we feel unvalued, unloved and taken for granted; where we feel stressed.
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- According to Forbes, new data shows that for almost 70 per cent of people, their manager has more impact on their mental health than their therapist or their doctor - and it's equal to the impact of their partner.
- The Macleod Report found that '54 per cent of the actively disengaged say that work stress caused them to behave poorly with friends or family members in the previous three months, against 17 per cent of the engaged. More alarmingly, 54 per cent of the actively disengaged say their work lives are having a negative effect on their physical health, versus 12 per cent of the engaged.
- The Stress Institute in Stockholm found that 'employees who had managers who were incompetent, inconsiderate, secretive, or uncommunicative were 60 per cent more likely to suffer a heart attack or other cardiac condition?
…It is easy to see that the word pension may become an anachronism to most people under the age of 40. Indeed, from that data it is no surprise that 24 per cent of Millennials - that cohort born between 1981 and 1996 and (in 2023) aged between 27 and 42 - think they will never retire (this statistic was pre-pandemic before the recent bout of inflation further tarnished any retirement plans)....In the UK, the retirement age is due to rise from 67 to 68, and recent reports have indicated that the government may bring this date forward by eight years."
"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." "