Monday, December 27, 2010

CEOs: Keep Your Key Talent

Today's WSJ's Boss Talk section featured Ram Charan, a veteran management adviser to major US Companies. In this article, Ram talks about the need to identify and groom key personnel and keep your company's talent engaged and recognized.

Message to CEOs: Do More to Keep Your Key Employees - WSJ.com

Here are the biggest corporate talent-management Ram Charan sees:
-Leaders not held accountable for developing talent
-Performance assessments without candor or focus on developmental needs
-Failure to drill deep enough to know best staffers well and put them in stretch jobs
-Top Management's serious lack of time commitment and energy
-Placement of loners in leadership jobs.

With the economy showing many signs of recovering, the necessity to identify and keep top talent will be more important than ever. Especially WineTalent!

Thursday, December 23, 2010

Season's Greetings


Best wishes to you and yours this holiday. It has been a pleasure to work with many wineries this year, and I look forward to your continued success in 2011