Só o maior espectáculo Europeu. Le Tour de France!!!
Vivemos um tempo esquisito, o tempo da pós-verdade.
Vou-me abster de usar palavras minhas e vou usar as palavras de Helena Garrido em 2016:
"Não importam os factos, pouco interessa o que é verdade, acredita-se, quase por fé, naquilo que se deseja que seja verdade. É o sentimento que conta, tal como nos mercados. Não é mentira, mas também não é verdade mas é aquilo que queremos que seja a realidade, [Moi ici: Este trecho é particularmente interessante. Por exemplo, quando só nos contam parte da estória] seja porque assim pensam os nossos amigos, a nossa tribo seja o partido ou clube de futebol, ou aqueles a quem damos maior credibilidade que não são – e esta é a grande diferença – especialistas.
Na era dos factos, basta verificar com estatísticas, frases ou relatos para se fazer ou desfazer uma declaração. Nesta nova era é mais importante quem diz, a que “tribo” pertence e especialmente, num mundo de imagem, a forma como se afirma."
Por que recordo isto? Por causas das notícias sobre a semana de 4 dias.
Por que não começam por a aplicar ao SNS? Veriam como resulta. Viram o impacte da redução das 5 horas semanais?
Recordo uma experiência de 2009 sobre a simples redução do horário das 40 para as 35h semanais.
Por que é que estes estudos não falam da amostra de empresas? Que empresas, em que sectores, o que fazem, o que entregam?
Algumas das empresas que participaram no estudo só aplicaram a semana dos 4 dias a parte dos trabalhadores (presumo que os deltas e epsilones ficaram de fora). BTW, leu algures em algum orgão de comunicação social sobre essa particularidade?
Imaginem empresas de fabrico de sapatos, ou serviços municipalizados de transporte, ou supermercados, menos tempo de operação dariam origem a:
Dito isto, claro que há sectores onde a semana de 4 dias pode funcionar. Por favor, não a publicitem desta forma. Pessoas menos informadas, como o senhor que ocupa o cargo de presidente da república, podem achar que pode ser aplicada sem custos adicionais.
Segundo o estudo:
"In Portugal, 75 per cent of companies have made at least one organisational change. The most popular was reducing the number and duration of meetings, and defining and enforcing a set of rules. Ten companies have adopted or deepened their knowledge of some organisational software, and nine have automated or eliminated processes. To improve concentration and deep work, several companies have created 'blocks of work' throughout the day for individual work, teamwork, of for responding to emails. Many of today's business problems are related to multiple communication channels in the firm: emails, meetings, phone calls, WhatsApp, or management software, which overlap, creating frictions in the transmission of information. Some companies have created a communication guide, striving to organise and document information so that any worker can access it asynchronously without having to interrupt or involve colleagues. Other changes include: adjusting the timing of meetings with clients or suppliers, or offering time-management training to workers."
Tudo coisas muito úteis para os deltas e epsilones. BTW, por que precisaram da experiência para fazer estas alterações? Fazem sentido para qualquer empresa.
Isto é tudo acerca do planeta Mongo.
"On election night, when the country tunes in to find out how Rishi Sunak's July 4 gamble has played out, ministers, MPs and pundits coming into the BBC's headquarters will be ushered in past the family show's paraphernalia. The programme's fortunes are a guide to how the institution that will do much to shape those of the parties is changing.The latest Doctor Who premiere was the BBC's most successful drama that week — with a little over 4mn viewers. For context, when the Conservatives entered office in 2010, the show managed the same thing with 10mn viewers.The final election debate of 2010, also on the BBC, between Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg, got 8.4mn viewers. The final election debate in 2019, between Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn, scored just 4.4mn.The audiences for both reflect a deeper truth: that televised set-piece events reach fewer people than ever before. The paradox is that the BBC will matter more, not less — many more voters will see a push notification from the BBC News app, which has 12.6mn users, than will watch the first debate between Rishi Sunak and Keir Starner.One political consequence of this is a loss of control. The most harmful interview Starmer has given was on LBC, a commercial radio station. The damage was done when footage of the interview travelled widely on Meta's various platforms and on TikTok.The days in which a political leader could watch the six o'clock and 10 o'clock news, and look at the day's papers, and get a reliable sense of how their campaign or that of their opponent was going have disappeared forever....This new media landscape also means that politicians are always "on"....The more important consequence of all this is an inevitable reduction in a shared sense of nationhood and belonging. When Tony Blair won his third and final election victory in 2005, the ITV soap opera Coronation Street got more than 11mn viewers and the majority of people only had access to five television channels.Whoever wins the next election will do so in a country where Coronation Street, like Doctor Who, pulls in around 4mn viewers and increasingly small numbers of people think in terms of channels - let alone live in a household with access to just five.The only way to get 14mn viewers these days is for the country to be overcome by a pandemic, for it to win a football tournament or for a monarch to die. There is not much to what passes for our shared national story beyond the royal family, sport, the condition of the roads or the railways, the NHS and the BBC.So it's not just that the winner of July's election will have to navigate a faster-paced and more complex media environment — it is that they will be governing a country whose tastes and shared points of reference are more fragmented than ever."
Recordo Mais um sintoma de Mongo.
"This is already a long-term trend. Singapore was the top recipient of inward foreign direct investment flows in south-east Asia between 2013 and 2022, according to the latest data published by the bloc. In 2022, Singapore attracted $141bn on FDI, accounting for more than half of the region's total."
Direitos adquiridos degeneram nisto:
This guy is brilliant. I expected to click off and was waiting for my exit point. Never found it. Listened to his entire exposition. Just listen. pic.twitter.com/AivhndI05e
— 🇬🇧 IM 🇬🇧 (@TellYourSonThis) June 26, 2024
Ontem li "How Starbucks Devalued Its Own Brand":
"Starbucks is in trouble again. In its last quarterly-earnings report, it announced disappointing results, including a 4% drop in same-store sales (11% in China, its second-biggest market). After that announcement, its stock plunged. (It is still well below its 12-month high.) And its founder and three-time CEO Howard Schultz once again fired off a missive on LinkedIn pleading with Starbucks' current leaders to rediscover and embrace the company's core purpose, its reason for existence.
Schultz's open letter, which followed another he issued in February, largely echoes the growing sentiments of many long-time customers: Going to Starbucks isn't what it used to be, and the brand itself isn't what it used to mean. The fundamental problem: Starbucks has been commoditizing itself."
Empresa tem sucesso inicial com uma proposta de valor única. Depois, a doença anglo-saxónica entra em jogo e começa a espiral que a atrai para a eficiência pura e dura e a magia inicial desaparece. Não esquecer o velho banco e a lição dos nabateus.
Como é que a Starbucks se comoditizou:
"Recapturing the authenticity of the brand means doing away with the assembly-line feel of today's Starbucks, letting employees once again be key actors in the experience. The liveliness that comes with baristas shouting orders and the human connections they make are precisely what gave these places a neighborhood coffee shop feel — even if that meant an occasional odd misspelling on your cup or an unwarranted extra pump of syrup. Such "mistakes" made the Starbucks experience authentically human. Re-enriching jobs that have become routinized and empowering employees to stage meaningful experiences might also go a long way in improving their sentiment toward the company."
Aqui em 2020 escrevi:
"Sou um pessimista-optimista. Acredito que enquanto continuarmos assim vamos, como comunidade, enterrar-nos cada vez mais por mais dinheiro que venha da UE para alimentar as elites e o seu património. O meu optimismo vem de pensar no day-after... quando a nossa comunidade estiver preparada. Porque não se pode ter razão antes do tempo, ou alterando o que diz Joaquim Aguiar, os eleitores têm sempre razão, mesmo quando não a têm. Quando a nossa comunidade estiver preparada e retirarmos os pesos, vamos poder fazer o que fez a Toyota ou o que fez a Estónia e a Letónia. Sem espertices saloias, mas com trabalho e com verdade."
Hoje no FT, "Britain's big election will be the one after this":
"Running for US president in 1976, Ronald Reagan opposed the Keynesian consensus and detente with the Soviet Union. That platform was too strident for Republican sensibilities, never mind those of the wider public. In 1980, the same agenda was the plainest common sense. What changed? Not Reagan. It was the nation's appetite for a rupture. America needed to marinate in the status quo for four more years before voters said: "Enough."
Britain, I suggest, isn't there yet. The nation is tired of malaise, but not that tired. The result will be the election of a continuity government, further disappointment and only then an acceptance of uncomfortable change.
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At that point, in the historic election of 2029, an exasperated nation draws a line. It entertains once-verboten ideas. Things become sayable that now aren't."
Calma, recordar o calvários dos martirizados venezuelanos, isto pode durar muito mais do que se pensa.
Taleb diz: "No stability without volatility"
"São necessários mais estimulos financeiros, sobretudo públicos?O financiamento é necessário mas não pode ser o único instrumento. Os empresários têm que fazer a sua parte. Ser empresário é assumir o risco e a responsabilidade de investir o seu próprio capital ou capital alheio sobre o qual assume a responsabilidade. E este programa de financiamento que está a ser desenhado faz com que os empresários assumam a responsabilidade por este investimento, não é dinheiro grátis. É dinheiro que exige responsabilidade.[Moi ici: Eu traduzo... dinheiro fácil para fogo de artifício ao estilo da Overcube. Quem pode estar contra o investimento no digital? É o futuro, assegurarão os gurus. Só que se calhar ainda precisam de fazer pequenas experiências para descobrir o modelo de negócio. Aposto que suportados no dinheiro do estado vão actuar ao estilo da Webvan]E para onde deve ser canalizado esse investimento?Tem que ser feito em áreas que, sobretudo, permitam beneficiar deste mundo digital em que hoje vivemos. Num mundo digital não há países periféricos. Isso significa que, com mais qualificação, com o arrojo dos nossos empresários que pensam num mundo global, é possível conseguirmos, seja nas áreas dos serviços ou do produto, efetivamente, estar no mundo. Nós, em 50 anos não conseguimos construir uma única marca global e paises da dimensao do nosso tem várias. Está na altura de o conseguirmos. E é importante que consigamos que essa marca global, ou essas marcas globais, possam servir de âncora para todo um ecossistema de outras empresas que possam acompanhar essa marca na sua internacionalização." [Moi ici: Eu traduzo, não tem qualquer pista, mas tem de dizer algo e, por isso, fala de marcas. Oh! Não temos uma marca! Vamos construir uma. Só precisamos de investimento suportado pelo estado]
Trecho retirado do JdN de ontem, em ""Num mundo digital não há países periféricos"".
Entretanto no WSJ de ontem apanhei, "Bosses Know Al Is Big But That's About All":
"The potential of artificial intelligence isn't just flummoxing technology entrepreneurs. Chances are that your boss is standing at the base of the learning curve, too - right next to you. Rarely has such a transformative, new technology spread and evolved so quickly, even before business leaders have grasped its basics.
No wonder that in a recent survey of 2,000 C-suite executives, 61% said AI would be a "game-changer." Yet nearly the same share said they lacked confidence in their leadership teams' AI skills or knowledge, according to staffing company Adecco and Oxford Economics, which conducted the survey.
The upshot: Many chief executives and other senior managers are talking a visionary game about AI's promise to their staff-while trying to learn exactly what it can do.
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A spring survey of 10,000 workers and executives by organizational consulting and executive search firm Korn Ferry also cited Al as a reason 71% of CEOs and two thirds of other senior leaders said they had "impostor syndrome" in their positions.
"They're uncertain about the impact, they're grappling with how not to fall behind," says Mark Arian, CEO of Korn Ferry's consulting business. "It's hard not to feel like an impostor.""
A história mostra-nos que injecções de capital público frequentemente resultam em desperdício e fracassos retumbantes onde o dinheiro é queimado em projectos sem solidez. Como aquelas pessoas que compram um bruto carrão, mas depois não têm dinheiro para manter o carro. Aparentemente, esse padrão repetir-se-á quando se fala em fomentar a criação de marcas globais a partir de uma visão superficial e sem uma estratégia clara, apenas com o suporte financeiro estatal.
Não estou a falar de crime, estou a falar de dinheiro fácil.
Tom Holland diz que a chegada do cristianismo a uma cidade é marcada, nos estratos arqueológicos, pelo fim das valas comuns para recém-nascidos, o fim do infanticídio como prática corrente.
Eis um retrato do pós-cristianismo no Ocidente: "Canadian Paralympian says she was offered medically assisted death after asking for wheelchair ramp".
Demasiado rebuscado?
Esperem pela demora, "No One Left by Paul Morland - why demography is still destiny":
"In 1950 in Italy there were "about 17 under-tens for every one person aged over 80," he writes. Now it is more like one for one. In Thailand in 1950 there were "more than 70 under-tens for every one person over 80 ... Within a generation the over-eighties will outnumber the under-tens." At current rates Japan and China will have lost more than 40 per cent of their populations by the end of the century.
When the NHS was founded in 1948 there were 200-300,000 people in the UK aged 80 and over, a cohort that typically needs six to seven times more healthcare than people in their prime. Now there are more than 1.5m. "This is not just social change," he argues, but a "complete social transformation."
BTW, interessante trecho para situar este país socialista:
"In richer countries the consequences of low birth rates have been obscured by immigration. In poorer ones they have been accentuated by emigration."
Parte I, parte II e parte III.
Por que é que isto acontece ""Políticas europeias têm ficado para trás no apoio à indústria", diz. Mário Jorge Machado, o português que vai liderar o setor têxtil europeu"?
Porque ninguém tem coragem de dizer:
"Alguém diz ao filho com 5 anos?
- A actuação do vosso ano na Festa de Natal do jardim-escola foi uma valente porcaria!"
Por exemplo, neste outro texto "ATP apoia Manifesto da EURATEX" é interessante que a palavra "produtividade" não seja mencionada nem uma vez. Já a palavra "competitividade" é referida 4 vezes.
Já sabem qual o resultado de competitividade sem produtividade?
Pois...Na capa do WSJ de hoje:
"You could double your money in five minutes by buying a Birkin handbag at your local Hermès boutique and then flipping it. But getting your hands on the world's most sought-after purse is complicated.
A basic black leather Birkin 25 costs $11,400 before tax at the Hermès store.
Buyers can walk out and give it to a reseller like Privé Porter in exchange for $23,000 in cash.
Privé Porter will then sell the BirKin for up to $32,000. Analysts estimate the bag costs Hermès around $1,000 to make."
Começo a parte II com a pergunta:
O que acontece numa sociedade em que a produtividade baixa ou estagna mas é preciso aumentar salários para seduzir trabalhadores?
Primeiro, recordo o impacte da instalação de uma fábrica de chips da Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company numa região longe das grandes metrópoles, na ilha de Kikuyo nos arrabaldes da prefeitura de Kumamoto no Japão em "A dolorosa transição ao vivo e a cores".
No nosso país de baixos salários, preferia perder com os checos no futebol e ganhar neste campeonato, "US chipmaker onsemi will invest $2 billion in a chip production facility in the Czech Republic". Contudo, reconheço que a tribo do pão e circo é bem mais numerosa.
Há um ano:
Acrescentar STMicroelectronics, Infineon, Wolfspeed Inc e Silicon Box.
Imaginam a contribuição destes investimentos e dos spillovers que geram na produtividade agregada destas sociedades?
Outra vez, lembram-se da alegria do jornal porque uma fábrica de meias trocou a Lituânia por Portugal ... minha Nossa Senhora. Percebem porque é um sinal triste?
Agora, por que é que estas empresas viriam para Portugal?
Termino a Parte I com esta pergunta:
"O que acontece numa sociedade em que a produtividade baixa ou estagna mas o custo de vida sobe?"
Acrescento mais uma questão:
Apesar das empresas nos sectores transaccionáveis não poderem aumentar os salários livremente, por causa da concorrência internacional, o custo de vida sobe, os governos querem impostar mais e, por isso, as empresas começam a ver os trabalhadores a emigrarem para outras paragens onde facilmente ganham muito mais do que nos seus países de origem.
Então entra o fenómeno das paletes de trabalhadores pouco qualificados para fazerem o trabalho ao preço mais baixo possível no país. Recordo um artigo do Público, talvez de 2018, sobre os problemas gerados pela imigração no concelho de Odemira sobre o SNS (BTW, acho interessante nunca ninguém falar destas externalidades e de quem as paga).
Numa economia em que a produtividade estagna ou baixa as empresas não geram capital para pagar os custos crescentes como as rendas. Quando os governos começam a apoiar as empresas para que aumentem a produtividade, muitas vezes o dinheiro é usado para compensar custos em vez de subir na escala do valor.
Estamos, como país, nesta situação.
"Industrial policy works if it changes the structure of the economy in a beneficial direction [Moi ici: ?]. Unfortunately, there are well-known reasons why the attempt could fail. Lack of information is one. Capture by a range of special interests is another. Thus, governments may fail to pick winners, while losers may succeed in picking governments. The more money is on the table, the more the latter is likely to be true."
Já é a segunda ou terceira vez no último mês que Martin Wolf me surpreende.
Trecho retirado de "How not to do industrial policy"
"Putting people in a group doesn't automatically make them a team.
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Leaders play an important role in establishing cohesion. They have the authority to turn independent individuals into an interdependent team. But all too often, when it comes time to decide who takes the helm, we fail to consider the glue factor.
When we select leaders, we don't usually pick the person with the strongest leadership skills. We frequently choose the person who talks the most. It's called the babble effect. Research shows that groups promote the people who command the most airtime -regardless of their aptitude and expertise. We mistake confidence for competence, certainty for credibility, and quantity for quality. We get stuck following people who dominate the discussion instead of those who elevate it.
It's not just the loudest voices who rise to lead even if they aren't qualified. The worst babblers are the ball hogs. In many cases, the people with the poorest prosocial skills and the biggest egos end up assuming the mantle-at a great cost to teams and organizations. In a meta-analysis, highly narcissistic people were more likely to rise into leadership roles, but they were less effective in those roles. They made self-serving decisions and instilled a zero-sum view of success, provoking cutthroat behavior and undermining cohesion and collaboration."
Trechos retirados de "Hidden Potential" de Adam Grant.
Depois de um Mundial no Qatar, depois de uns Jogos Olímpicos na Grécia e na Cidade do México.
"When we're facing a daunting task, we need both competence and confidence. Our ability to elevate our skills and our expectations depends first on how we interpret the obstacles in front of us. Extensive evidence shows that when we view hurdles as threats, we tend to back down and give up. When we treat barriers as challenges to conquer, we rise to the occasion.
Seeing obstacles as challenges depends partly on having a growth mindset-believing in your ability to improve.
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The difficult task in front of them was no longer a threat—it was a challenge. Instead of doubting themselves individually, they believed in their collective capacity."
Recordo os dirigentes associativos que são os primeiros a formatar a abordagem dos seus associados como a resposta a uma ameaça e não como um desafio ou uma oportunidade:
Trechos retirados de "Hidden Potential" de Adam Grant.
De lo mejor que he visto en tiempos !!
— B.Leon (@B__deLeon) June 19, 2024
Pagalo tú, independentista! pic.twitter.com/hZtEvVrIZb
Quem paga?
"London was the main drag to UK productivity growth between 2019 and 2022, a trend that pushed the efficiency gap between the capital and the rest of the country to its lowest level on record. [Moi ici: Consequência do Brexit e da saída de empresas financeiras da capital londrina. Basta recordar o impacte da actividade financeira na produtividade do Luxemburgo (esqueçam estas explicações absurdas num suposto jornal económico).]... The decline left the capital 26.2 per cent more productive than the countrywide average, the smallest lead since comparable records began in 1998 and well below the 2007 peak of nearly 40 per cent."
Recordo "Como aumentamos os salários?" onde ilustro porque é que o Norte tem produtividade mais baixa.
Ligar o desempenho da produtividade do Reino Unido com:
"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." "