In 1976, when my father started Easter Associates, people were still working on typewriters. There was no internet, no email, no smartphones. The idea that you could hold a board meeting with people scattered across the state, without anyone leaving their home, would have seemed like science fiction.

Nobody knew what the next fifty years would bring, but when I look at why Easter Associates is still here after half a century, the answer has less to do with how we adapted and more to do with how we stayed the same.