“No Dumbing Down” is a lively, readable and highly perceptive look at how leaders can avoid the pitfalls that lie in wait for any company or other organization undergoing growth – or stuck at the edge of it. More important, Walker maps clear and practical paths around common traps such as organizational and interpersonal conflicts, stagnation, stasis, blind spots and more.Any or all of those issues can “dumb down” an organization, draining it of its original intelligence, vitality and senses of urgency and purpose, not to mention its brightest people. In Walker’s words, this happens because “internal strategies stopped supporting external ones. In response, “No Dumbing Down” offers one powerful internal strategy after another to resurrect any company, big or small, whose best days seem to be in the past.That said, “No Dumbing Down” is by no means a DIY guide to corporate turnarounds. It will be of equal value to leaders of successful businesses – start-ups and mature enterprises alike – who will find in it the seeds for far-reaching initiatives that keep their organizations and people on the upward path.And though explicitly written for CEOs, its utility is clear for leaders in and below the C-suite … anyone, in fact, looking to achieve success and recognition by elevating company performance and keeping it on the rise. Board members will find it useful in alerting them to issues to be watchful for, and guiding companies to strategies that make growth sustainable. Investors can even use “No Dumbing Down” to better sort the likely winners and losers in their portfolios.