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business novels. Two of my favor-
ite are Good to Great and Built to
Last also by Jim Collins. I also wrote
Partnership Principles: A Story of Life
Lessons and Working Together.
PCT: What do you do to decompress?
RD: I recently bought a small ranch
with all raw land and I’ve found that
going out and working and sweating
and then seeing the progress made
and envisioning what I’m going to
do next is a huge decompression for
me. I love spending time with my
horses and Bulldogs … they are great
listeners or they don’t care if I just say
nothing. Corporate America will eat
you alive if you let it. It’s only taken
me 64 years to learn this.
PCT: What is something people don’t
know about you?
RD: People don’t know and would
have no idea considering what I have
done in my career for so many years
that I’m a borderline introvert. I am
constantly with people face to face,
social media, video, chat groups,
email … if there is a platform I’m on
it.
PCT: What would you most like to be
remembered for?
RD: I would like to be remembered
simply as a man with integrity,
compassion and that empowered
people to be the best they can. I love
to see people be successful. My path
to success is helping enough others
have success.
neurs. To work with them, set up a
course, teach, coach, advise. This
would be a qualified select group
that has the heart to stick through
the bad times. I work with a lot of
young folks today and most want to
be the president of the company in
four weeks and don’t understand why
they can’t. I would like to take that
challenge on.
PCT: If you could have lunch with
any one, either living or dead from
history, who would it be?
RD: If I could have lunch with
anyone in the world it would have
to be my mother. We just lost my
mother a few weeks ago and I’m not
adjusted yet and probably won’t ever
be. PCT: What is your impact to Parker
County?
RD: I have been a member of the
Parker County Sheriff’s Posse for over
five years now and I have tremen-
dously enjoyed the people I’ve gotten
to meet, ride with, do parades and
grand entries, help put on our own
rodeos each year. I love the heritage
and the men that respectfully are and
were a part of that heritage.
PCT: If you had to do another job
than what you’re doing, what would
you do?
RD: I’ve thought about this not long
ago and I would like to be able to
mentor young people to be entrepre- PCT: What is your definition of the
best day ever?
RD: Being at home on our new ranch
with my wife, horses and bulldogs,
going for rides, cruising around in my
four wheelers … basically anything
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