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Are You Really Managing For Results?

BY Michelle Randall | 05-22-2012 | 11:44 AM | CAREERS

Four out of 5 managers would say that they manage for results--but their people often have a different story to tell. Here are 3 questions to ask yourself to determine if you're managing for process or results. READ MORE›

6 Steps To Outperforming Your Competition In A Lukewarm Recovery

BY Michelle Randall | 04-11-2012 | 6:54 AM | LEADERSHIP

This may not be the recovery we hoped for, but it is, nonetheless, rife with opportunity. Will your competition make the most of it? Will you? READ MORE›

Mentors Are Useless--But They Don't Have To Be

BY Michelle Randall | 02-09-2012 | 7:38 AM | CAREERS

I am a lousy mentee. It’s a funny admission to make as someone who makes her living as professional mentor. Sure, I train my clients on how best to leverage my expertise. Of course, that doesn’t mean that I follow my own advice very well.READ MORE›

2 Steps To Getting Lean Enough To Succeed

BY Michelle Randall | 02-01-2012 | 7:52 AM | CAREERS

There are things that we carry around in our organizations and in our mentality that make things more cumbersome than they need to be. Treat your leadership like you would treat a manufacturing floor and get leaner now. Here’s are the two fastest ways to achieve this.READ MORE›

Lot18 Expands Wine Flash-Sale Dominance To Europe, Acquires Paris-based Vinobest

BY Austin Carr | 12-08-2011 | 3:18 PM | INNOVATION

New York-based startup Lot18 is bringing its online wine business to Europe, acquiring Paris-based Vinobest for an undisclosed sum. READ MORE›

A Kit That Turns Homemade Wine Into Beautiful Art

BY Suzanne LaBarre | 10-28-2011 | 2:30 PM | VINIFICATION

Search the web for home wine-making supplies, and you’ll be greeted by so many plastic buckets and airlocks and hoses, you’ll feel like you just stumbled onto a construction site. DIY vinification is a complex (and unsightly) ... READ MORE›

Experimental Glasses That Turn Wine Into Art

BY Belinda Lanks | 09-21-2011 | 2:03 PM | WANTED: HOME

The Italian design collective Gumdesign offer experimental takes on the traditional form. READ MORE›

Reclaim Your Effectiveness With One Simple Action

BY Michelle Randall | 06-13-2011 | 10:36 AM | CAREERS

After a meeting at a large corporation I work with, one of the division presidents, I'll call him Bill, pulled me aside. "Last year I felt invincible. But these past few months, I've been completely off my game," he told me in a ...READ MORE›

The Passing of Jess Jackson, Wine Industry Innovator

BY Mike Hoban | 05-19-2011 | 3:15 PM | LEADERSHIP

You might be drinking his wine tonight.READ MORE›

Outraged! Will The New York Times Avoid Blockbuster's fate?

BY Michelle Randall | 04-01-2011 | 5:02 PM | ETHONOMICS

Through the Internet our consumer culture evolved to expect a vast selection of stuff that is fast and free. The New York Times has finally introduced digital subscriptions, while companies who have been culturally inagile are continuing to go down, one of which, Blockbuster, is being auctioned Monday.READ MORE›

Why Yellow + Blue Makes the Greenest Wine in America

BY TakePart Staff | 02-15-2011 | 3:06 PM | ETHONOMICS

Yellow + Blue has carved out a niche as the country's leading wine importer committed to environmentally responsible production and consumption.READ MORE›

What Every CEO Must Learn From Hosni Mubarak

BY Michelle Randall | 02-10-2011 | 5:34 PM | ETHONOMICS

All too many CEOs insulate themselves with advisors who think alike and act similarly tone deaf toward their employees and customers.READ MORE›

Clever Branding Makes a Food Co-op Less Crunchy, More Sexy

BY Suzanne LaBarre | 12-15-2010 | 1:19 PM | LABEL

The People’s Supermarket in London is your classic hippie-dippie food co-op. But you’d never guess it, thanks to a fantastic branding scheme from the British design firm Unreal. The new identity package elevates the notion ... READ MORE›

Design Firm Unveils Chilean Miner-Themed Wine

BY Suzanne LaBarre | 12-10-2010 | 11:57 AM | CHILEAN MINERS

The British design firm Unreal is giving clients a curious Christmas gift this year: in-house designed, limited-run bottles of “Chilean Winers." As in Chilean miners. As in the guys who spent 69 days trapped in a mineshaft surviving ... READ MORE›

How Nick Kokonas Is Shaking Up Fine Dining

BY Kate Rockwood | 10-01-2010 | 2:00 PM | MAGAZINE

The cofounder of Alinea and Next on reimagining the restaurant experience as entertainment akin to a Broadway show. READ MORE›

Wine Corks Fight Off Alternative Stoppers

BY David Lidsky | 09-01-2010 | 2:00 PM | DESIGN

The radical reinvention of the once-humble cork.READ MORE›

Benziger, French Rabbit Top Greenopia's Green Wine Rankings

BY Ariel Schwartz | 08-26-2010 | 11:28 AM | ETHONOMICS

Greenopia released its updated list of the most sustainable U.S. wineries this week with some big changes from last year's rankings.READ MORE›

Infographic of the Day: Wine Is a Better Recession Investment Than Stocks

BY Cliff Kuang | 06-22-2010 | 8:37 AM | WORK/LIFE

It also tastes better.READ MORE›

Organic Wine Is Badly Labeled but Often a Bargain

BY Ariel Schwartz | 04-15-2010 | 10:00 AM | ETHONOMICS

Pop quiz: What's the one product on store shelves that decreases in price when it has a label marking it as organic? As most wine snobs know, the answer is organic wine. Next100 points us to a study (PDF) from researchers at the ...READ MORE›

Webinar Announcement: Turning Your Business Strategy Into Reality!

BY Michelle Randall | 03-19-2010 | 1:02 PM | CAREERS

Have a brilliant business strategy, but don't know how to implement it? Register for our webinar "Turning Your Business Strategy Into Reality" that will be held on March 31 here: http://to.ly/1uPC.READ MORE›