English / proverb
Dance with the One That Brung You
MEANING IN ENGLISH
Maintain unbroken fidelity toward the early backers, strategies, or assets that made your executive success possible (colloquial variant with 'brung')
In context
01
Even after listing the company on public stock exchanges, the founder decided to dance with the one that brung you by retaining his founding engineers.
02
Strategic leaders realize that abandoning core competencies to follow hype violates the basic tenet to dance with the one that brung you.
Synonyms
preserve foundational trust,maintain loyalty,stick to the playbook
Antonyms
alienate early backers,dismiss founding contributors
Collocations
tenet to dance with the one that brung you,decide to dance with the one that brung you,failure to dance with the one that brung you