An Interview with Tim Cakir, Growth Consultant

In this week’s episode, Tracy and Mike interview Tim Cakir, a growth consultant and co-lead at Juno Talent. 

Show Highlights:

• Tim introduces himself and his story working from door to door sales to marketing and tech, to becoming a “growth hacker”, to becoming a “growth consultant” focused on helping organizations grow sustainably (01:25)
• The team talks about the benefits and challenges of working in a global workforce (7:01) 
• Tim discusses the sweet spot of where he typically works with from a company maturity perspective, between a Series A and a Series B (10:00) 
• Tim shares his perspective on how organizations need to balance fast growth with appropriate structure, and the usefulness of the revenue / employee as a better metric for success as an organization as opposed to just the number of employees (12:15) 
• Mike and Tim chat about the humility that is beneficial to be demonstrated and practiced by successful leaders (25:00) 
• Tracy and Tim talk about what’s next for Tim, including him writing a book that outlines (31:45) a new framework that he’s created called the GCO “Goals Challenges and Opportunities” framework

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