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Building A Business – The Humanitas Model Part 1

Friday, January 15, 2010

 
In 1997 I had this wild idea that I wanted to create my own winery.  Well, it wasn’t that wild.  I’d been in the wine business all of my adult life and had been bitten by the wine bug at a very early age.  I had dreamed of owning my own winery for years.  In [...]

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Reading Glasses…Business Books by Jim Collins

Monday, February 2, 2009

“The kind of commitment I find among the best performers across virtually every field is a single-minded passion for what they do, an unwavering desire for excellence in the way they think and the way they work. Genuine confidence is what launches you out of bed in the morning, and through your day with a [...]

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If Paul Newman Were A Wine?

Monday, January 26, 2009

As many of you know, the primary inspiration of Humanitas wines was/is Paul Newman’s Own.  When I first dreamed up Humanitas back in 1997, my thinking was that if a winery could use the Paul Newman’s Own model of creating an excellent product as a means to generating revenues that in turn would drive charitable [...]

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The Good Life

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

It is appropriate that my inaugural post on Drink Charitably, the Humanitas Winery blog, falls in October.  October 1st is the birthday of my first child, a beautiful daughter, now 16 years old.  It was a day unlike any other (as any parent will attest) – not only, obviously, because of the birth of my child (we [...]

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