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" I had never seen a computer when I went to college. "
Lynn Good
Had
College
Computer
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" If we just isolate distributed solar all by itself, it does not work without the utility around it. And so the utility needs to be paid for the services it provides. "
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" I can be incredibly focused, and I can appear impatient. So I've learned to slow down, get to know people, and provide more context. There's nothing wrong with getting to the point pretty quickly, but it's also helpful to give people an opportunity to talk about their work. "
Lynn Good
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Know
Opportunity
" You move an organization when they understand where you want them to go. "
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You
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" M&A is always an opportunistic tool to grow a company. "
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Always
Tool
Grow
" There weren't many women ahead of me. "
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Were
Ahead
Many
" All options to produce, transmit, and store electricity should be considered, driven by clear price signals and constructive government policy. "
Lynn Good
Policy
Government
Electricity
" I find, at times, people underestimate me. That's really an asset. "
Lynn Good
Asset
Underestimate
People
" Always play to your strengths, whether your strengths are gender-based or just natural aptitude. "
Lynn Good
Strengths
Always
Just
" You see more women in the CFO ranks. It's an evolution. "
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You
Evolution
Ranks
" There is growing demand for renewable energy. "
Lynn Good
Growing
Energy
Renewable Energy
" It was exciting putting hundreds of millions of dollars to work buying and building wind farms in Texas. "
Lynn Good
Building
Buying
Work
" 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
Service
Will
Excellence
" The regulations keep on coming. And we are trying to make decisions that we will be happy with for decades. "
Lynn Good
Decisions
Happy
Will
" 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
Thought
Me
You
" If I were to share with you the number of attacks that come into the Duke network every day, you would be astounded. And it's not from people working out of their garage; it's from nation-states that are trying to penetrate systems. "
Lynn Good
You
Trying
People
" Nuclear is an important part of the heritage of Duke. We operate the largest regulated nuclear fleet in the U.S. We love the diversity of the generation. "
Lynn Good
Generation
Love
Heritage
" We are accountable for what happened at Dan River and have learned from this event. "
Lynn Good
Happened
Dan
River
" I hope nuclear becomes a part of the conversation, at the right time when we recognize the importance of that resource. I hope we can work that out as a country and figure out how we are going to put nuclear in the mix. "
Lynn Good
Country
Conversation
Work
" I'll be the first one to tell you I burn coal... That fossil generation and the nuclear generation, frankly, is necessary in order for me to provide power. "
Lynn Good
Tell
You
Burn
" 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
More
Over
Coal
" 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
Lead
Things
See
" Building new nuclear is something that is going to take a lot of commitment, not only from our company but from the communities we serve. It is a five-to-seven-year journey to build one, and they are expensive. "
Lynn Good
Building
Commitment
Journey
" 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
You
Power
People
" I went to work in accounting at Arthur Andersen. At one point, it was the creme de la creme. I wanted to work there because it looked like the hardest thing I could find, and I loved being on a steep learning curve. I progressed quickly, and two years out of college, I was managing a small team of people. "
Lynn Good
Learning
Team
Work
" There are no coal plants on the drawing board for Duke, which leaves us with gas, renewables, and nuclear. "
Lynn Good
Gas
Drawing
Us
" I get energized around a plan - what's it going to be like in three months? Six months? You're not going to let it defeat you. You got to keep going. "
Lynn Good
Three
Plan
Defeat
" Natural gas is an important part of delivering energy, whether you're producing power or other solutions for customers. "
Lynn Good
Natural
You
Power
" Leadership is a journey - you never arrive. "
Lynn Good
You
Never
Leadership
" Our customers are at the center of everything we do. "
Lynn Good
Everything
Customers
Center
" I respect passionate views. "
Lynn Good
Passionate
Views
Respect