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Erik: How have your parents influenced your professional development?
Randall: First and foremost is how you treat people, because you can’t become successful
in this world without treating people the way that you want to be treated. As much as
that sounds cliché, it’s a very, very important mantra that I live by on a daily basis and
that does stem back to communication over all in this world but they both in their own
rights and then together as a married couple have always instilled that within our family
and that is basically just to communicate as best you can and to treat people well and
treat people right. So, my parents are not only an amazing couple but each of them have
been so highly successful in their own working worlds. Mom being an artist, a painter essentially
on all different levels of art, my father was in the music business for over forty years
with both CBS records, which then became Sony music and then with Universal Music and Video
Distribution and I’ll use my father as the example first because I learned from him,
I wanted to be like him based on not only his working within the music business but
everything that he did within the companies he worked for and he just had such a laid
back style and he was a great listener, good communicator and was excellent to his employees
and Mom much the same in her artistic world. Dorothy just did some great, great things
within various organization and was always involved and you could never tell her no,
she was always going for yes, making it happen, getting it done, she was like the little Energizer
Bunny which we still call her to this day.