Durante as duas primeiras revoluções industriais, que, juntas, vão da segunda metade do século XVIII ao início do século XX, as instituições fabris, no contexto do sistema capitalista, conheceram formas de ampliar e massificar a sua produção de mercadorias, através da mecanização na fabricação de seus produtos. Assim, as classes que dominavam os meios de …
I was recently at our Christmas dinner for one of our companies. During this time of the year you normally do two things, you eat a lot and you also tend to reflect over the past year. My company operates in Angola and as many people know Angola has been in a financial crisis for …
Precisamos de envelhecer o mais lentamente possível, para garantir a nossa qualidade de vida e a daqueles que nos rodeiam. Mas não só! Precisamos de comer melhor, para ser mais saudáveis, e fazer exercício físico, para ganharmos ainda mais saúde. Tenho de admitir que luto diariamente com este compromisso. No entanto, sei que é demasiado …
Remember Kodak…. A company started in Rochester New York in 1888 with the true American spirt which made it Great. It held a dominant market position through out most of the 20th century. It started struggling in the 1990’s due to it’s reluctance to embrace change and failed to adapt it’s business to the increased demand for digital photography. …
For a while now I have been bearish to say the least, on how the markets have been going up without any real logical reason. In reality there were so many negative warning signs around. As we head into this financial crisis we have to understand that we were already living an unrealized crisis throughout …
The Perfect Financial storm has arrived and Coronavirus is not solely to blame. Read More »
As the world struggles to come to terms with this pandemic Coronavirus, let’s take a minute to think how it all started. Apparently, someone in Wuhan province China ate a BAT and this has made the world sick and loose about 33 trillion dollars, considering the US stock exchange alone. This is mind blowing, are …
In a world that seems so much as if its headed for disaster, and offers little hope for future success, I plead that you wake up and Be Brave. Now, more than ever, we need all like-minded people to unite and make a difference. We hear the extreme right and the extreme left loud and …
Não devo ser o único que está cansado da palavra (Covid), dos números de mortos, dos infetados, dos recuperados, dos que estão por recuperar, das restrições, do que podemos ou não fazer, das opiniões dos mais ou menos especialistas, do agora abre, agora fecha, para alguns…ou para todos. Vamos ser honestos, isto é um vírus …
Once upon a time Portugal was growing and we were led to believe that we were in control of our destiny, but then we were hit by Covid-19 and all our shortcomings were painfully exposed. An economy too focused on tourism and burdened with high public debt and lacking a real strategy to lead us …
Many of us blame the lack of global leadership on one party or another, one government or another, one ideology or another. Our leaders are supposed to lead us boldly but it seems as if all that they are trying to do is make less bad decisions than the next. This is not leadership, this …
