Lynn Good
Lynn Good

I am deeply honored by the trust the board has placed in me to lead Duke Energy. I have a high degree of confidence in the strength of our company's leadership and dedicated employees.

Lynn Good
Lynn Good

Effectiveness comes from those qualitative things that give you the ability to network, communicate, and lead people toward an outcome they can't see.

Lynn Good
Lynn Good

Fracking has been a real technological change that has caused great innovation in our business, and we've had the benefit of very low gas prices for our customers as a result of that.

Lynn Good
Lynn Good

The closing of ash basins is really part of decommissioning a coal plant.

Lynn Good
Lynn Good

I will work to ensure Duke Energy is positioned to continue its track record of outstanding customer service and operational and financial excellence.

Lynn Good
Lynn Good

I am honored to be named chairman of Duke Energy's board and privileged to lead our company forward for our customers, employees, and shareholders.

Lynn Good
Lynn Good

On two occasions, utility executives I'd never met had looked at me and said, 'I thought you'd be bigger!' In a way, I took that as a compliment!

Lynn Good
Lynn Good

We don't believe carbon capture is a proven, scalable, commercially available technology.

Lynn Good
Lynn Good

Utilities fall in love with their assets, and that's a danger we need to avoid.

Lynn Good
Lynn Good

We are setting a new standard for coal ash management and implementing smart, sustainable solutions for all of our ash basins.

Lynn Good
Lynn Good

An investor in Duke Energy is expecting a dividend payment. That's roughly 70 to 75 percent of the earnings I produce. The business that goes with that level of dividend is a business that has more predictability, more stability.

Lynn Good
Lynn Good

When I was growing up, we had a widow living next door to us. So the habit was that if we went to the grocery store, we called her first. If we cut our yard, we cut her yard, no questions asked.

Lynn Good
Lynn Good

Over the long term, we should develop and implement new technologies to capture and store coal's carbon emissions. We also must make our electric grid more resilient.

Lynn Good
Lynn Good

We are accountable for what happened at Dan River and have learned from this event.

Lynn Good
Lynn Good

When you are in a situation or a crisis, you need to define, what is the unique role that I can play?

Lynn Good
Lynn Good

Leadership is a journey - you never arrive.

Lynn Good
Lynn Good

I actually had someone say to me, 'Lynn, you're going to have very good days, and you're going to have very bad days. But It's rare that things are as good as they look, and it's rare that things are as bad as they seem.' So having perspective, and challenging perspective, is important to making good decisions.

Lynn Good
Lynn Good

As you think about developing people through their careers, you're looking for that transition from being the smartest person in the room - and caring so much about that - to being the most effective.

Lynn Good
Lynn Good

Leaders play a unique role in periods of crisis and chaos. Because if you don't, you're not going to harness the power of all the people behind you.

Lynn Good
Lynn Good

You were in the midst of a chaotic, unfair, didn't-know-how-it-was-going-to-end story, and the only thing you could do was... keep moving.