Posts by Rodger Dean Duncan
You Want to Lead Best? Follow Your True North
A wise man once advised living life by a compass, not a clock.
In today’s option-packed world, that counsel is more pertinent than ever.
Look around you. Many people—“busy” though...Read More
Do You Really Understand Shyness? Probably Not
If you Google “famous introverts,” you’ll get an interesting list of luminaries: Albert Einstein, Rosa Parks, Bill Gates, Steven Spielberg, Eleanor Roosevelt, Al Gore, Marissa Mayer, Abraham Lincoln, Warren Buffett,...Read More
The ‘Secret’ to User-friendly Negotiations: Split the Pie
For some people, the very idea of “negotiating” is not just unappealing, it’s downright scary. It’s often tainted with connotations of coercion, pressuring, or even trickery. All those tired clichés...Read More
Good Leader or Good Person? It’s Not a Binary Choice
When it’s done right, leadership is hard work.
There’s always the delicate balance of caring for people while getting important things accomplished. The two are not at all incompatible, but...Read More
Is ‘Fake News’ Creeping into Your Belief System?
If you’re like most people, you make thousands of decisions each day.
Sure, most of those decisions are unconscious and inconsequential—like will you put on your left shoe or right...Read More
Decisions, Decisions: Tips on Making Tough Ones
In a world of so many competing interests, making smart decisions is harder than ever. So much so, in fact, that some leaders get stuck in the quicksand of indecision....Read More