Business View Magazine | Volume 8, Issue 11

132 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 8, ISSUE 11 be prepared for change. But we don’t change who we are based on the direction the wind is blowing. We have a saying framed in our conference rooms: “If you don’t like change, you are going to like irrelevance even less.” That pretty much says it all. Since the middle of 2021, just like everyone else, the biggest challenge has been finding people who want to work. We’ve got a good, steady group of people now and I’m not worried about that.” BVM: So, what is your “secret sauce”? Dixon: “You know a teammate asked me that a while ago. I had never thought of it that way, but it’s really pretty simple: Our secret sauce is we don’t take ourselves that dadgum seriously. There’s another bank down the road. If you treat everyone with humility and respect, you can accomplish just about anything. That is our Sammie D. Dixon, Jr., Vice Chairman, President and CEO of Prime Meridian Bank