Dear FG team,
We are in a time and place where what we choose to do matters greatly!
2022 brings with it the tough times of 2021 but with a promise – more vaccines for more people, a society that continues to confront and act on the many things that ail us, and an awareness of climate crisis of a generation that will be able to do something about it.
This, then, is a time that makes us face our vulnerability while empowering us with the acceptance of truth. Acceptance precedes action. And, so, this moment in this time and place lies our right to do something that will matter greatly.
AT FG, this is our quest. To connect. To act. To do what we can to change human experience for the better.
What happened in 2021
As a company, we greeted the year with unbridled optimism. Armed with the resilience we gained in 2020 and with the certainty in our purpose, we moved boldly to make 2021 a better year.
We achieved and exceeded majority of what we set out to do. We launched our new website. We invested in our growth. We learned, played, laughed, and cheered on our successes. We pulled each other up in times of failure. We persevered together.
We planted 1,300+ trees, donated 21,000+ meals, 1,300+ bags of food, sponsored 30 scholars, and contributed to the victims of disasters in US and globally.
With conviction, we spoke louder on what we stand for and lent our voices on issues important to us. We shared stories on how to turn crisis into opportunities.
Was 2021 a success? I’d say it is. We may have fallen short on some of our KPIs in some months but we achieved and gained formidable strength as people and as teams. 2021, as you know, took us for a hopeful ride in the 1st half, then, a tumultuous one in the 2nd half. Covid insidiously hurled two variants one after the other. We survived as best we can with our hard intelligent work, our team spirit, our purpose, and came out with a year that makes us proud and ready for 2022!
What will happen in 2022
2022 is in your hands. It will be exactly the year we will make it to be. We will come together and spell out in concrete terms how we will achieve this. You will discuss and define your goals, objectives, and KPIs to support the kind of year we want. We ask ourselves:
- How do we build stronger from what we learned in 2021?
- How can we further push our mission and live a value-based life?
- What are the areas that need shoring up in our organization? Our weaknesses? Our threats?
- How do we overcome our hurdles? What are our hurdles?
- How are we as people? As teams?
- What is our competition?
- What and where are our opportunities?
- What is the future we see?
- How do we shape that future?
- What is expected of us? Are we accountable enough?
- How do we continue to do what we can to be part of the solution?
- How do we reach our full potential as a company, as teams, as individuals?
What I know as your leader
We will stay the course. We will stay in the arena with heightened ability to understand, to connect, to act with a clarity of our mission of truth, social justice, and conservation of our planet.
We will build on our experience and knowledge with an open mind, an open heart, and a joyful spirit.
We will continue to trust, believe, and be grateful as we strengthen our teams with our own resolve and ownership of our actions.
We will always work toward excellence.
We will measure how we are doing and go back at it with ruthless consistency, focus, and accountability.
We will raise the bar and set stretch goals that will put to the test all that we’ve learned in the years before.
We will take another meaningful step towards our best selves, as individuals and as a company. A meaningful step toward moving the world forward.
In 2022, we will use our time to shape the present and the future we want for us, for our children and for generations to come.
We are exactly at a time and place where what we choose to do matters greatly!
Thank you for everything you do for the company! It is a privilege to work alongside each one of you. Let’s welcome 2022 with the FG tiger spirit!