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How Jim Rogers became CEO of Duke Energy – Aug. 11, 2009

Secrets of my success

• Keep on learning
I’ve told my people that they need to go learn something they haven’t done before. I’ve been a journalist, a lawyer, a CEO. I didn’t learn to ski until I was 36. I’ve learned to scuba dive and fly-fish. It’s forced me to be an amateur and to learn to learn. It keeps you humble.

• Listen to your detractors
You need to listen to adversaries and understand where they are coming from. Then find a way to find common ground with them. After all these years of working with different groups, I’ve gotten comfortable with Mick Jagger’s idea that you don’t always get what you want, but you get what you need.

• Read voraciously
I think reading gives you new ways to think about old problems. I’m always sending books to my senior team, so I decided to buy them each a Kindle. When they’re on the road, they can read books and download newspapers and magazines.

• Friend or foe
Despite being one of the largest emitters of carbon dioxide in the U.S., Duke Energy joined USCAP, an alliance of environmentalists and CEOs lobbying Congress for a cap-and-trade bill to fight global warming. “I had been told that you can’t work with environmentalists,” says Rogers, 61. “That was bad advice.”

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