“All through my growing up years as I would run out the door of our home, my mother would yell the phrase “Remember who you are and what you stand for”. I would guess I have heard that phrase literally thousands of times as a child. Most days she said it I would roll my eyes like a typical teenager, but now that I am an adult I have truly come to appreciate the import of that one little phrase, “Remember who you are and what you stand for.”…”
Those words were the beginning of a blog I wrote to my employees on my final day as their CEO (as we had sold the company to be merged into a large publicly traded corporation). I wanted to leave them with the message I felt would matter most:
“Remember the values that made us the amazing company that we have become today: