sentence Grant wrote during Meridian’s earliest days still appeared on the first page.
Every decision that forces another person to carry responsibility must preserve the name of the person who made it.
Beneath it, I added another line.
No organization should permanently delegate its conscience to one person.
Then I signed the charter.
We named the company Northline Integrity.
During our first six months, we had only seven employees.
We worked from a modest Boulder office instead of a glass tower in Denver.
I invested part of my settlement, but
