by Deborah Steinthal | May 6, 2020 | blog, COVID-19, Go-to-market planning, Growth planning, Leadership, Updates
Author – Deborah Steinthal, Managing Director I Scion Advisors I McMinnville, Oregon COVID-19’s toll on the wine industry is substantial, with potential long-term consequences. Everyone’s context has been scrambled. Things are super fluid. It is impossible to...
by Deborah Steinthal | Mar 6, 2019 | blog, Growth planning, Leadership, Organization Strategy, Updates
Strategic leadership consists not only of the vision element, but also encompasses other wide-ranging factors. These 17 points from successful CEOs, offer winery leaders a powerful place to start exploring strategic leadership, deepen their practice – to...
by Deborah Steinthal | Aug 24, 2018 | blog, Growth planning, Leadership, Organization Strategy
U.S. Wine industry CEOs are at the epicenter of persistent and rapid change, and many feel like Don Quixote fighting windmills. So many big questions are being debated right now, mainly – How to manage through …: ‘incessant consolidation in distribution’;...
by Deborah Steinthal | Aug 30, 2017 | blog, Exit Planning, Growth planning, Leadership
As the U.S. wine industry matures, increasingly large numbers of winery owners are retiring[1] and are seeking to sell their businesses to third parties or to their children. Either process is fraught with challenges. For those who have successfully achieved these...
by Deborah Steinthal | Aug 12, 2017 | blog, Growth planning
The wine business is not so easy anymore! I think you would agree that we are at a complex industry stage and that it is a lot harder for winery owners who want to build profitable businesses, to eventually SELL AND RETIRE. I think you would agree that we are at a...
by Deborah Steinthal | Mar 26, 2017 | blog, Leadership, Organization Strategy
by Deborah Steinthal, Managing Director, Scion Advisors (707.246.6830) Recently, I have noticed that an increasing number of winery owners and general managers are most concerned about ‘how to attract and retain more engaged employees’. They are struggling to improve...
