No Dumbing Down: A No-Nonsense Guide for CEOs on Organization Growth - Paperback

by Karen Walker (Author)

No Dumbing Down: A No-Nonsense Guide for CEOs on Organization Growth is a book for a company's senior-most leaders looking to make improvements when aligning the organization's internal and external strategies for fast, profitable, and sustainable growth.

This book combines the author's impactful and formative experience with leadership and strategy best practices, helping the reader master the counterintuitive art of actually delivering on the promise made to customers. Readers will learn how and why to put these strategies to work-taking direct aim at pitfalls that can trip up even the most stellar companies.

Author Biography

Karen Walker is a consultant, author, and advisor to CEOs and senior leaders. She helps her clients grow their companies with successful outcomes, which include IPOs, acquisitions, market share increases, and significant leadership development. Her clients include Inc. 500 start-ups and Fortune 500 firms. As employee #104 at Compaq Computer, Karen was part of the senior team that grew the company's revenue from zero to $111 million in its first year-and then became the fastest company in its time to reach $1 billion. By the time she left to form her consultancy 14 years later, Compaq had grown to $15 billion. Karen's work with organizations from Fortune 500s to Inc. 500 start-ups substantiates the strategies and keys for execution outlined in this book.