Acclaim for Doctor Duncan and
Change-friendly Leadership

A truly splendid book … highly relevant, tremendously insightful, remarkably accessible. Rodger knows how to engage people’s heads, hearts, and hopes. Change-friendly Leadership is a user-friendly implementation guide to help buffer the shock wave that often accompanies change.”

- Stephen M. R. Covey
New York Times bestselling author of The Speed of Trust

I’m impressed by the utter simplicity and brilliance of Change-friendly Leadership. To borrow a well-worn political phrase, ‘It’s the relationships, stupid!’ The practices taught by Dr. Duncan can turn any organization around and create happier and more successful people at all levels.”

- Dr. Laura Schlessinger
Radio host, author of twelve New York Times bestsellers

In laying the groundwork for successfully implementing change in an organization, Rodger Dean Duncan recognizes the vital human elements of a smooth transition: the power of teamwork, the importance of trust, the value of communication, and why it’s critical to regard your people as your business partners. With wisdom and insight, Change-friendly Leadership beautifully brings home the simple truth that people are as important as results.”

- Ken Blanchard
coauthor of The One Minute Manager® and Great Leaders Grow

I really like this book. It’s full of stimulating thoughts coupled with examples that make them accessible and immediately implementable. Change-friendly Leadership should be read – and used – by managers, consultants, academics, and the general public.

- Dr. Edgar Schein
Professor Emeritus, MIT Sloan School of Management
author of Organizational Culture and Leadership

As a leader in the corporate world for over three decades, I find myself drawn to books which offer enlightened thinking on leadership that stand up to scrutiny from a practitioner’s point of view and can be put to work on Monday morning. This is one of those books. I highly recommend it.”

- Douglas R. Conant
Retired President and CEO, Campbell Soup Company
New York Times bestselling author of TouchPoints

Few people are as qualified as Rodger Dean Duncan to take a reader by the hand and chart a wise, proven and practical course to profound change. Change-friendly Leadership distills decades of experience into an engaging education in how to influence a small team or a global enterprise toward lasting change.”

- Joseph Grenny
coauthor of the New York Times bestseller Crucial Conversations

Rodger Dean Duncan has crafted a work of brilliantly memorable models, genuinely compelling stories, and highly practical advice that inspire and energize. It’s a work of optimism, compassion, and encouragement in a time when so much of what we hear about change is pessimistic, indifferent, and negative. It’s the kind of book you can put to use immediately. So, do it!”

- Jim Kouzes
coauthor of The Leadership Challenge
Dean’s Executive Fellow of Leadership, Santa Clara University

Many books have changed my mind, but few have changed my habits. I can’t think of a single individual, company or organization that wouldn’t benefit from Change-friendly Leadership and its powerful calls to action. If it doesn’t inspire you to seek permanent, sustainable change, you weren’t paying attention. It’s that good.”

- Jason F. Wright
New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author

This insightful book presents a refreshingly positive method for motivating your team (and yourself) through these times of guaranteed change. I love the models and stories you can repeat over and over to energize and get your team moving and embracing Change (with a capital “C”). Change-friendly Leadership will alter how we all feel about the C word! It’s truly a performance enhancer, and a must read for all leaders who want to go from great to greater!”

- Ann Rhoades
former Chief People Officer at Southwest Airlines, author of Built on Values

Rodger Dean Duncan is a masterful writer and storyteller! I love the way he uses stories to illustrate the key principles and practices he advocates. His life’s work has been engaging people to help them achieve organizational success. Change-friendly Leadership provides the recipe.”

- Dr. Brent D. Peterson
Bestselling author of Fake Work

The title of this book says it all: Change-friendly Leadership. It delivers on that promise. This book is a delight to read and has many change-friendly tools and ideas. I didn’t think the world needed another book on change or leadership, but it did – and this is it.”

- Norm Smallwood
Founder, the RBL Group

Nothing is more fun to read than a practical book written by an active consultant who’s willing to pass along great ideas that work. That’s what Change-friendly Leadership delivers. Not lots of theory, but many ideas you can and will actually use.”

- Jack Zenger
CEO of Zenger Folkman,
coauthor of the bestselling The Extraordinary Leader

Change-friendly Leadership is a must read for anyone who wishes to obtain and maintain a competitive edge in their business. The change-friendly protocol provides the practical framework for engaging people’s ‘heads, hearts, and hopes’ in a deliberate and strategic way that can only lead to ultimate success.”

- Hyrum Smith
Co-Founder, FranklinCovey

Finally! Someone levels with us about change. It’s not easy. It takes work. And it takes leaders with ethics. Ethics require those who lead to tackle the tough issues we read about each day, the same issues no one wants to touch. Rodger dares to raise them. For example, leadership perks can sabotage change. And those perfunctory performance evaluations based on numbers or rating categories will no longer do. Take this book and use it to change your attitudes, your approaches to management, yourself, and, as a result your organization.”

- Marianne M. Jennings
Professor of Ethical Studies, Arizona State University

You may not think ‘change’ and ‘friendly’ go together, but this new book shows you how it’s not only possible but desirable for leaders to achieve. Rodger Dean Duncan is your guide to a new way of leading in a world where matters of the heart make a huge difference. You and those you lead will benefit from his insights.”

- Mark Sanborn
acclaimed speaker and bestselling author of The Fred Factor
and You Don’t Need a Title to be a Leader

I’ve read a lot of books and heard hundreds of speakers on the topic of change, but Change-friendly Leadership gets to the real center of the issue with new, refreshing, and usable information. Put it at the top of your list of books to read!”

- Nancy Lauterbach
Former president, International Association of Speakers Bureaus

In an organization of any size, results rule. This thought-provoking book sheds light on leadership and communication practices that guarantee successful results.”

- Dr. Nido Qubein
President, High Point University
Chairman, Great Harvest Bread Co.