11.3.11

Portugal, a Geração à Rasca e a Crise

Neste texto pretendo apresentar a minha visão sobre como um curso não é garantia de emprego, a relação entre a "geração à rasca" e a precariedade e outro ponto de vista sobre os Homens da Luta.

5.12.10

Discover your ideal customer

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there. - Lewis Carrol



Do you know who your ideal customer is?

You should. Why?

18.11.10

Escaping the Crisis using Innovation



We’re living one of the most serious challenges of recent History.

The financial crisis created an economic crisis and, finally, a social crisis that shook the foundations of the World economy. Greed mixed with ineptitude from the financial system has destroyed the dreams and lives of millions of people around the World.

In spite of everything that History taught us about previous economic crisis and depressions, the truth is: no one really knows how to successfully solve this mess! Cutting monetary stimulus too soon and preventing new bailouts could result in a new recession. Cutting it too late could cause dependence. And while we’re here talking about our economic meltdown, emerging economies are working at full business speed, surpassing us every day on their road to success.

One thing is for sure: we need a new plan that points to a sustainable solution! And we need it now!

Read the rest of the article at the OnInnovation Blog.

8.11.10

NOW!

Shallow people believe in luck. Wise and strong people believe in cause and effect.—Ralph Waldo Emerson


NOW!

Now, is the time to cause our ideas to born! For too long we've afford to let them inside our brains. But not anymore.

2.11.10

Mistakes and what to do about them



No matter what you do, you're going to make some mistakes. But making mistakes per se won't lead you to failure because everyone makes mistakes. Your competition, your customers and your employees. It's just part of being human.

What leads to a failure or to a success is what you do once you make a mistake!

Recently, after 6 months of investing time and money working on a design & development of a project, I realized that the solution that I've come up with had a couple of critical mistakes.

It was tough to realize and accept that I've only noticed those mistakes after 6 months of work. What was even tougher to do, curiously, was to let go the solution that I've been working on. I always thought that, eventually, when I would run into some mistakes I would learn from them and carry on. Well... it's not so easy as it sounds.

Here's what I've learned from making mistakes: