Dr. Rodger Dean Duncan

Dr. Rodger Dean Duncan

Kansas City, Missouri, US
Author of the international bestseller CHANGE-friendly LEADERSHIP: How to Transform Good Intentions into Great Performance

After an early career as an award-winning journalist and university professor, Rodger founded Duncan Worldwide in 1972 to serve the needs of organizations seeking to boost performance. His client roster ranges from airlines, pharmaceutical company, engineering firms and public utilities to high tech companies, banks, and presidential cabinet officers in two White House administrations.

Rodger earned a PhD in communication and organizational dynamics at Purdue University. His blog on leadership and organizational effectiveness now reaches opt-in business subscribers in nearly 200 countries. He's also a Forbes columnist.

Rodger is author of the international bestseller CHANGE-friendly LEADERSHIP: How to Transform Good Intentions into Great Performance. The book has strong endorsements from Stephen M.R. Covey, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, Ken Blanchard, Jack Canfield and many other bestselling authors and business people.

 

After an early career as an award-winning journalist and university professor, Rodger founded Duncan Worldwide in 1972 to serve the needs of organizations seeking to boost performance. His client roster ranges from airlines, pharmaceutical company, engineering firms and public utilities to high tech companies, banks, and presidential cabinet officers in two White House administrations.

Rodger earned a PhD in communication and organizational dynamics at Purdue University. His blog on leadership and organizational effectiveness now reaches opt-in business subscribers in nearly 200 countries. He's also a Forbes columnist.

Rodger is author of the international bestseller CHANGE-friendly LEADERSHIP: How to Transform Good Intentions into Great Performance. The book has strong endorsements from Stephen M.R. Covey, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, Ken Blanchard, Jack Canfield and many other bestselling authors and business people.

 

CHANGE-friendly LEADERSHIP

Truly effective change is an elusive goal for most organizations. It doesn't have to be. Dr. Duncan offers a simple though powerful seven-step approach to completing your implementation on time, within budget and with all human and technical needs met. Dr. Duncan believes the second most expensive thing that can happen to an organization is for smart, capable people to quit and leave. He believes the single most expensive thing that can happen is for smart, capable people to quit and stay. In...
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Be a Gardener, Not a Mechanic

A first tendency of many business people is to fix things. Unfortunately, some leaders then try to fix people. Not many folks want to be fixed. Dr. Duncan shows how great leaders adopt the role of gardener rather than mechanic. With his characteristic pattern of real life illustrations, he explains how the gardener/leader creates an environment that encourages growth-full of light and nourishment. This program is ripe with ideas on getting a great harvest in your leadership...
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Wake Up That Sleeping GIANT

Within most of us there's a gigantic potential waiting to be focused on a life of productivity, high performance and achievement. Learn the five keys to waking up the GIANT within. Dr. Duncan underscores the power of SMART goals, the importance of courageous action based on personal vision, the necessity of saying no to forces that pull you off track, and the indispensable vitality that comes from mental conditioning.
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Building (and Maintaining) a High Performance Culture

Dr. Duncan has helped scores of organizations breathe new life into their cultures. With lots of stories from his vast reservoir of experience, he'll show how your organization may actually contradict your professed values. Learn the keys to strategic alignment-ensuring that the behaviors at work in your environment reinforce your mission, vision, values, and strategic business objectives.
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Collaborating for Results

People add value to the organization by virtue of their skill in interacting with other. When that skill is deficient, bad things happen: missed deadlines, busted budgets, turf battles, and more. This highly engaging program reveals the specific skills that enable top performers to get consistently superior results.
Educational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changing