Karen Walker is a consultant, author, and advisor to CEOs and senior leaders. She helps her clients grow their companies with successful outcomes that include IPOs, acquisitions, market share increases, and significant leadership development. Her clients include Inc. 500 start-ups and Fortune 500 firms. Her work helps senior leaders create internal strategies that support their organizations’ external growth; and she is the author of the recently published book, No Dumbing Down – A No-nonsense Guide for CEOs on Organization Growth. 

“Think bigger. oftentimes, we don’t find ways to think outside the box that we built for ourselves when we don’t know what’s possible. So, finding ways to help yourself think bigger.”

– Karen Walker

Why you have to check out today’s podcast:

• Discover how to put these ‘No Dumbing Down’ strategies to work-taking direct aim at pitfalls that can trip up even the most stellar companies
• Learn how to align the organization’s internal and external strategies for profitable and sustainable growth
• Know why when companies try to grow, they invariably over-focus on sales and revenue growth resulting in sales outpacing the company’s ability to fulfill its promises

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Episode Takeaway: One Valuable Free Action (VFA) that Karen Walker suggests to our audience that they could implement, that audience can implement that will help them solve the problem with this accelerated growth

1. Get your team in a room. And sometimes that can just be a virtual room, I have a lot of clients who are now global in nature. And you can’t always get someone in the same physical room, do your best.
2. And then focus, once you get them in the room, focus on how you get things done not just what needs to get done. And that would include of course an accountability structure. But I think process whether you’re looking at sort of seat of the pants or standard operating procedure, I call my SOP continuum, focusing on what process and how much you need is every bit as important as what you get done if you want to grow your business.

Resources|Links

• Link: https://karenwalker.us/no-dumbing-down-book 

Connect with Karen Walker: 

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karenwalkerus/ 
• Website: https://karenwalker.us/ 
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/KarenWalkerUS 
• Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/no-dumbing-down/id1195126237?mt=2%20#iTunes