Brandir o grito de "falha de mercado" para manter o status quo...
Receio que se seja a versão tuga do Relatório Draghi. É preciso salvar os incumbentes porque não sabem ou não querem adaptar-se à alteração da realidade.
Brandir o grito de "falha de mercado" para manter o status quo...
Receio que se seja a versão tuga do Relatório Draghi. É preciso salvar os incumbentes porque não sabem ou não querem adaptar-se à alteração da realidade.
"... faltou sempre o dinheiro que o "Portugal profundo" preferiu gastar na "ajuda" a "empresas em situação económica difícil"..."Portugal, o país onde deixar as empresas morrer é tabu. Na sequência de:
"Capitalism, then, is by nature a form or method of economic change and not only never is but never can be stationary. And this evolutionary character of the capitalist process is not merely due to the fact that economic life goes on in a social and natural environment which changes and by its change alters the data of economic action; this fact is important and these changes (wars, revolutions and so on) often condition industrial change, but they are not its prime movers. Nor is this evolutionary character due to a quasi-automatic increase in population and capital or to the vagaries of monetary systems of which exactly the same thing holds true. The fundamental impulse that sets and keeps the capitalist engine in motion comes from the new consumers' goods, the new methods of production or transportation, the new markets, the new forms of industrial organization that capitalist enterprise creates."
Interessante que a tabela que referi em Em Portugal, a conversa de café é a norma (parte V) ou melhor, os mastins dos Baskerville ao vivo e a cores. vem originalmente desta publicação, com o interessante nome de "EU INNOVATION POLICY - HOW TO ESCAPE THE MIDDLE TECHNOLOGY TRAP", agora é relacionar com o título do último relatório do Banco Mundial e referido em Europe, aka red tape paradise (parte II).
O "deep state tuga" está cada vez mais receoso que o proximo orçamento não seja aprovado. "Orçamento em duodécimos é desaconselhável pela incerteza económica".
Pobre Pedro Nuno Santos, de infiltrado do bloco no PS a muleta do orçamento do PSD. A vida dá cada volta.
Uma vez participei numa reunião de condomínio em que se decidia a necessidade de cada condómino entrar com mais de 3 mil euros para umas obras urgentes no telhado. Alguns condóminos diziam que não tinham dinheiro para a obra, outros que estavam a sofrer com infiltrações, ameaçavam o condomínio com um processo. A certa altura a representante da empresa que geria o condomínio tomou a palavra e agiu como o adulto na sala:
- Ser dono de uma casa implica custos, quem não os pode pagar, se calhar tem de equacionar deixar de ser proprietário.
Lembrei-me desta cena ao pensar na reacção das organizações empresariais acerca do aumento do salário mínimo.
O Carlos Cruz capaz de fazer esta relação não é o mesmo que escrevia neste blogue em 2021. A teoria dos Flying Geese mudou a minha visão da economia para sempre. E já agora estou farto de bofetadas de short-term people e de "kits produtividade", talvez eu esteja a chegar à fase de Cavaco após esta reunião.
Esta noite tive oportunidade de ouvir a primeira hora do programa Contracorrente de ontem na rádio Observador sobre o tema "Draghi, a Europa e um destino: "Uma longa agonia"".
A certa altura (minuto 30,5) Paulo Ferreira cita este quadro da parte B do relatório Draghi:
Este quadro ilustra um tema que refiro recorrentemente aqui no blogue:Deixa-me adaptar a frase:
“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are years where decades happen.”
Primeiro um disclaimer:
As Mittelstand são mais importantes para a Alemanha do que as VWs, BMWs et al. Já o escrevi aqui no blogue mais do que uma vez. A diferença é que as Mittelstand são muito mais pequenas, estão nas zonas menos densamente povoadas e menos sujeitas a flutuações de preços e procura
Hoje no FT no artigo "Abu Dhabi closes in on German group that helped invent chemistry":
"at the heart of Abu Dhabi oil group Adnoc's effort to seal Europe's biggest takeover deal this year.
The target, Covestro, is a jewel of German industry. Spun out of pharma-to-chemicals conglomerate Bayer in 2015, its Leverkusen headquarters sit in the industrial heartland of North RhineWestphalia"
No mesmo artigo encontro um apanhado recente:
"Foreign takeovers of German companies, such as the 2016 purchase of robotics group Kuka by China appliance maker Midea, and US-based Carrier's acquisition last year of family-owned Viessmann's heat pump business, have sparked concern in Berlin about the fate of the country's industrial edge."
Na capa do WSJ de hoje:
"Volkswagen is going through its deepest crisis in years. So is Germany. And that's no coincidence.
While the carmaker's travails are exposing missteps, they also show how Germany's economic model is struggling to keep up with a changing world. Fixing these problems will require changes both for the carmaker and one of the world's largest economies.
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"VW is to Germany what Nokia was to Finland or Samsung is to South Korea... There's a scenario where that sector will shrink significantly and replacing those jobs with equally well-paid jobs will not be easy," said Dirk Schumacher, Europe economist at Natixis.
According to economists and analysts, Germany's economic malaise and VW's crisis have joint roots: heavy reliance on China, high costs, and an eroding technological leadership.
Recuo ao meu mágico ano de 2008 e a um texto de Beinhocker:
“Likewise, we cannot say any single strategy in the Prisioner’s Dilemma ecology was a winner. .
Lindgren’s model showed that once in a while, a particular strategy would rise up, dominate the game for a while, have its day in the sun, and then inevitably be brought down by some innovative competitor. Sometimes, several strategies shared the limelight, battling for “market share” control of the game board, and then an outsider would come in and bring them all down. During other periods, two strategies working as a symbiotic pair would rise up together – but then if one got into trouble, both collapsed.”
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“We discovered that there is no one best strategy; rather, the evolutionary process creates an ecosystem of strategies – an ecosystem that changes over time in Schumpeterian gales of creative destruction.”
Suspeito que muitos problemas decorrem de não aceitarmos a destruição criativa e encarar o futuro com mais optimismo... algo difícil num continente cada vez mais transformado num hospício geriátrico, crente que os imigrantes vão pagar os direitos adquiridos sem uma revolta.
O Think Tank desta semana tem intervenções muito boas de Jorge Marrão.
A certa altura Jorge marrão dá o exemplo, como uma metáfora, de uma empresa que está mal e os sindicatos, para ajudar, pedem aumentos de salários.
Sorri... mão amiga enviou-me isto ontem à noite, "VW-Sparpläne treffen auch Zulieferer":
"While the misery at Volkswagen is making waves and probably not only affecting the group itself, IG Metall believes it can help with a 4-day week and wage demands."
Nota: Acompanho a crítica de Marrão à politica da redistribuição, mas ao contrário dele não vejo futuro para o país. PS e PSD são adeptos da redistribuição. IL não tem coragem para carregar uma moto-serra, está mais interessada em crescer eleitoralmente.
Fui buscar o livro "Authenticity" de Gilmore e Pine à estante para procurar a figura 6.1 The Real/Fake Matrix:
Encontrei uns bons pontos sobre o tema aqui, "Authenticity"."TP: Doesn't that make it impossible for a business to figure out how to render itself authentic?JP: No, but it is difficult. You just have to realize that you may be able to render authenticity for some of the people all the time, maybe all of the people some of the time, but never all of the people all of the time."
Recordei este tema ao ler "Feeding the algorithm" de Seth Godin:
"Feeding the algorithm works when you’re the only one doing it. It works when you seek to fit right into the middle of the lane. And it works if you’re willing to outfeed everyone else–at least until the algorithm changes.
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The alternative is to be uncomfortable. To create remarkable work and leave scale to others. To figure out how to show up in a way that is generous and distinctive, and to refuse the bait that others take when they decide that feeding the algorithm is their best option."
"To meet the objectives laid out in this report, a minimum annual additional investment of EUR 750 to 800 billion is needed, based on the latest Commission estimates, corresponding to 4.4-4.7% of EU GDP in 2023. For comparison, investment under the Marshall Plan between 1948-51 was equivalent to 1-2% of EU GDP."
Sei que sou um cínico, por isso, não consigo deixar ver em Draghi uma espécie de António Costa e Silva europeu:
É preciso salvar as Efacec's europeias.
BTW, Draghi quer mesmo dizer 800 bilhões? O DN refere 800 mil milhões.
Trecho inicial retirado do relatório Draghi.
"Before selling a single bra in the EU, the Italian lingerie maker Yamamay will soon have to provide a wealth of data on what it will be made of, who will make it and what it will cost the planet.
Production of the company's popular underwear ranges used to start with a sketch to get the aesthetics right before finding the fabric. "Nowadays it's the opposite," says Barbara Cimmino, Yamamay's head of corporate social responsibility. "We have had to totally change the way we work."
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This is partly driven by Yamamay's own sustainability agenda - but it will soon be mandatory in order to comply with a new regulation governing the sustainable design of products, agreed by Brussels this year and due to be fully implemented in the late 2020s.
"It is very, very difficult," Cimmino says.
The driver of this increased paperwork is the EU's sprawling Green Deal climate law of which the ecodesign regulation is a part. Announced in 2019, the Green Deal aims to drive the EU to net zero emissions by 2050 and rewire the bloc's economy from one that is driven by consumption to one based on recycling, reuse and longevity.
But it has also turned out to be a bureaucratic machine that has spawned reams of legislation that businesses across the EU are struggling to implement, or even understand.
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The incoming legislation has implications for sectors across the EU, but they are particularly acute for the 197,000 companies that make up the bloc's textile industry.
With 1.3mn employees, the industry is the world's second-biggest exporter of clothes and textiles by value after China. Before 2019, the sector was not heavily regulated but will soon be subject to 16 new pieces of primary legislation under the Green Deal, governing everything from microplastics to financial reporting.
Businesses, particularly large companies, will be expected to gather and report data on water use, energy consumption, labour conditions, waste, chemical use and emissions throughout much of their supply chain.
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The sustainability agenda means "a good 5 to 7 per cent extra cost," Crespi says, "which at the moment we are never able to turn to the market".
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In a study, the consultancy SB+CO found that many large companies were willing to risk fines rather than comply during the uncertain early years of the regulations, in order to avoid incurring "expensive advisory fees" and sucking time out of the business.
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The challenge is even harder for the 89 per cent of businesses in the textile industry that are microenterprises, with scant resources to hire consultants, make significant changes or even gather data.
"An entrepreneur can spend nine to 16 hours processing administrative requests from local authorities... That is taking a lot of productive time away from their schedule," says Véronique Willems, secretary-general of the trade group SMEunited.
Although SMEs are largely exempt from many of the regulations, they are affected "de facto because they are part of value chains", Willems adds. Cimmino says Yamamay "for sure" has had to drop suppliers that cannot meet the requirements.
Many of Euratex's member companies are "concerned that producing in Europe is still uncompetitive", Scalia says. One executive puts it more bluntly: "People are panicking like crazy." [Moi ici: Já ouviram os empresários têxteis portugueses falarem sobre isto? Talvez na véspera da entrada das obrigações em vigor]
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"Over-regulation places significant additional costs on businesses, proving unsustainable for SMEs and inadvertently favouring non-European companies that are not bound by the same stringent rules," his report, published in April, said.
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In the meantime, Euratex's Scalia warns, textile companies will seek cost efficiencies, which portends a possible wave of consolidation in the industry. For companies managing day to day, "it's difficult to process all this information ... it's overwhelming, he says. "The commission has put a lot of meat on the grill, more than anyone could possibly eat.""
Recordar:
"As creative destruction is shown to be an important element of economic growth, there is definitely a case for public policy to support this process, or at least avoid disturbing it without good reason. Competition in product markets is important. Subsidies, on the other hand, may insulate low productivity plants and firms from healthy market selection, and curb incentives for improving their productivity performance. Business failures, plant shutdowns and layoffs are the unavoidable byproducts of economic development."
O meu lado cínico imagina logo a indústria dos “can I go to the bank” a engendrar estas coisas, quando era mais certeiro deixar morrer e remover obstáculos. Assim, uns iluminados pretenderão substituir-se ao mercado e vai simplesmente deixar dívida que terá de ser paga.
No FT de 09.09.2024 em "Europe's red tape problem".
"No país das contas certas, com 90% do orçamento dedicado a salários e pensões não dá para mais, mas ao menos podia haver alguém que se importasse, que não ficasse só por picar o cartão, que levantasse a cabeça e pensasse.É pedir muito..."
"Factory workers that source to Shein typically get paid between Rmb7,000 ($982) and Rmb12,000 a month, depending on how many clothes they finish."
"O número de pessoas empregadas em Portugal já ultrapassou os 5,1 milhões de profissionais, um valor histórico para o país. No entanto, apesar dos valores históricos, em Portugal encontram-se profissionais com um baixo nível de qualificações.
Segundo dados da Randstad, 35,2% dos trabalhadores em Portugal apresentam o nível mais baixo de qualificações, ou seja, têm no máximo o ensino secundário obrigatório. Estes dados são o dobro da média europeia.
Entre os empregados, 34,2% são trabalhadores com qualificações do ensino superior, que apresentam uma taxa de emprego de 80,2%. Já no caso dos trabalhadores que apresentam apenas o ensino secundário a taxa de emprego situa-se nos 10,7 pontos abaixo.
No caso dos desempregados os trabalhadores que apresentam apenas o ensino secundário correspondem a 52,4%.
Isabel Roseiro, diretora de marketing da Randstad Portugal, afirma que "esta análise permite-nos retirar conclusões muito relevantes sobre a evolução do mercado. Regista-se uma perspetiva de crescimento muito positiva, mas há ainda uma fatia grande da população em idade ativa a quem a falta de formação dificulta muitas vezes a integração ou reintegração no mercado de trabalho"."
Por isso é que os imigrantes que chegam ao país são todos universitários.
Trecho retirado de "Portugal tem o dobro da média europeia de trabalhadores com baixas qualificações"
"If you were forced to increase your prices by 10x, what would you have to do to justify it?What sort of brand looks and feels like something that expensive? What positioning would you take? How would the design of both the website and the product need to change?What subset of your market would you have to target? Do they have different problems that need solving, or different needs? Would they consider the high price a positive, because it fulfills a need to be seen as someone who is successful, or because they feel “buying from the best” lowers the risk of their decision? What would you need to do for them to be able to display that badge? What sort of relationship would you want to cultivate with each customer? How would your business model change?What expensive services might you need to supply? Human support? Infrastructure? Is it possible for those costs to be “only” 2x or 3x more than today, so that the net impact is massive profitability?Often early startups charge too little, and established companies struggle to charge more to existing customers. Thinking about what could justify a massive hike, you might be able to do some of those things and justify at least 2x."
Responder a estas perguntas é um bom exercício porque força a empresa a pensar de forma estratégica sobre como agregar valor significativo ao seu produto ou serviço. Obriga uma empresa a sair da zona de conforto e a ter de imaginar como criar uma oferta de altíssimo valor. Isso abre espaço para inovações e melhorias, tanto no produto quanto na experiência do cliente. É um desafio à mentalidade do status-quo.
Ao imaginar uma justificação para cobrar 10x mais, a empresa tem que repensar profundamente sua proposta de valor. Isso pode revelar oportunidades não exploradas para atender um segmento premium ou oferecer serviços diferenciados. Obriga a pensar em como o branding, o design e a imagem da empresa precisariam mudar para justificar um aumento tão significativo no preço ajuda a refinar a identidade da marca e a alinhar mais fortemente a percepção de valor.
Ao considerar que subsectores do mercado estariam dispostos a pagar um preço mais alto, a empresa pode identificar nichos mais lucrativos e descobrir maneiras de servi-los de forma mais eficaz.
A ideia de fornecer serviços mais caros e agregar valor permite que a empresa analise a relação custo-benefício e explore como aumentar a lucratividade sem aumentar os custos na mesma proporção.
Trecho inicial retirado de "Extreme brainstorming questions to trigger new, better ideas"
"When it first arrived as a luxury from East Asia, tea was an exotic drink reserved for royalty and aristocrats. But price, it seems, is no longer an indicator of a good brew. Asda's Everyday teabags, which cost only £1.20 for 80 bags, have been pronounced the nation's tastiest.
This was the result of a blind tasting competition organised by the consumer group Which? Seventy-nine "experienced and committed" tea drinkers judged products from some of the biggest brands, including PG Tips, Tetley and Twinings.
Asda's Everyday teabags got the highest overall score, at 72 per cent. Sixty-eight per cent judged the colour to be perfect, and 49 per cent found the flavour to be "just right". Of the ten brands tested, Twinings, which at £4.80 for 80 bags cost four times as much as the Asda offering, came last alongside Tesco Original Tea, with 67 per cent each. Overall, 60 per cent of tea tasters liked the colour and bitterness of Twinings, but fewer than half were satisfied with the strength of its flavour. Although two thirds of the panel enjoyed the bitterness of Tesco Original, 35 per cent said it was too dark and 34 per cent considered it not to be strong enough."
Quanto dinheiro é que os produtores do chá que entra na composição do "Asda's Everyday teabags" deixam em cima da mesa?
A culpa não é da Asda, a culpa é de quem não investe numa marca, ou não tem noção da qualidade do seu produto. Recordar a Raporal.
Trecho retirado de "Asda's 2p teabags make the best brew" publicado no jornal The Times de ontem.
Esta semana li num jornal qualquer que uma delegação de viticultores tinha ido a Belém pedir medidas ao presidente da república, e que este terá pressionado o secretário de Estado da Agricultura (também presente) para serem adoptadas medidas.
O infantilizador-mor da praça pública portuguesa sempre a cavar.
Entretanto, durante uma viagem de Alfa li:
“If you want tomorrow to look like yesterday, methodology will get you there.” —Peter Block
A declaração de Peter Block, “Se queres que o amanhã seja igual a ontem, a metodologia levar-te-á lá,” reflecte uma crítica à dependência de métodos e sistemas estabelecidos para criar resultados previsíveis e repetitivos, em vez de promover a mudança e a inovação. Ou seja, as abordagens convencionais muitas vezes reforçam práticas passadas, conduzindo a uma adaptação limitada ou à não exploração de novas possibilidades. Depois, os intervenientes admiram-se por obterem resultados semelhantes.
Esta semana tive oportunidade de ler "Rationality, Foolishness, and Adaptive Intelligence" de James G. March.
March critica a crença absoluta nas abordagens racionais e nos seus limites na tomada de decisões estratégicas. March concorda que as "tecnologias da racionalidade", embora possam ser eficazes em contextos simples e bem compreendidos, muitas vezes falham em ambientes mais complexos e exploratórios.
"As complexity is increased and temporal and spatial perspectives are extended, returns (both of alternatives that are adopted and of those that are rejected) are likely to be misestimated by huge amounts. [...] There are many instances in which the use of a technology of rationality in a relatively complex situation has been described as leading to extraordinary, even catastrophic, failures."
"The poor record of rational technologies in complex situations has been obscured by conventional gambits of argumentation and interpretation."
Ele enfatiza a tensão entre exploitation (utilizar o que já sabemos) e exploration (procurar novas possibilidades). Metodologias racionais — baseadas em processos de decisão orientados por modelos e dados — são frequentemente ferramentas de exploração que reforçam sucessos passados, mas desencorajam a experimentação e a inovação.
Assim, Block e March chamam a atenção para que metodologias estabelecidas podem limitar a possibilidade de novos resultados transformadores, mantendo assim o "amanhã" idêntico ao "ontem". Depois, não nos podemos queixar... claro que podemos, desde que haja uns trouxas que assumam o prejuízo. Externalizar prejuízos deve ser tão bom!
Que incentivos terão os viticultores para mudarem de vida?
"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." "