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Connecting the Dots

Leadership Lessons in a Start-up World

by John Chambers
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Legendary Silicon Valley visionary and one of the world's greatest business leaders, John Chambers shares the playbook and philosophy that transformed Cisco into a global tech titan and now inspire a new generation of leaders. With numerous start-ups moving from zero to a billion to bankruptcy in a matter of years, it's clear that sustaining a business in the digital age is no walk in the park. Over 20 years, John Chambers transformed a company with 400 employees and one toaster-sized product (a router) into a tech giant that's the backbone of the Internet. Along the way, he's outlasted and outmaneuvered practically every rival that ever tried to take Cisco on-Nortel, Lucent, Alcatel, IBM, Dell, and Hewlett-Packard, to name a few-and turned more than 10,000 employees into millionaires, more than any company in history. When Chambers stepped down as executive chairman in December of 2017, he left a company that didn't just shape the first Internet era but is leading the next wave of innovation in areas from cyber-security to self-driving cars. Now, in collaboration with award-winning journalist Diane Brady, Chambers shares the stories and strategies that helped his company win again and again through multiple market shifts. Posing a unique mode of thought proven to attain success, the message of this book is clear; it is not the biggest or the richest players who win, but the ones who are able to stay ahead of the trend by connecting the dots. Both enlightening and practical, this is essential reading to inspire a new generation of leaders.

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  • Release date

    October 4, 2018

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9780008297060

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9780008297060
      • File size: 660 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      July 23, 2018
      Businesspeople worried about the pace of change and disruption in the internet age should conquer their fears and embrace the “staggering” opportunities that await, advises Cisco chairman emeritus Chambers in this half-hearted vanity project. The author has undeniably achieved a great deal of success at Cisco and a variety of other companies, which he shares in excessively painstaking detail. He traces his life from his upbringing in West Virginia and the values his parents instilled in him, to his long career in Silicon Valley, with stops at IBM and Wang Laboratories along the way, culminating at Cisco. His advice tends toward the broad (“act like a teenager” by dreaming big and assuming disruption) and the overly obvious (“setbacks can make you stronger”). The aw-shucks attitude, chat-over-coffee tone, and bemusement at technological advancement may win over some readers, but overall this is a compendium of a little bit of everything that tries to do too much; there’s little new to distinguish this offering from the countless other how-to-succeed-in-business manuals crowding the shelves.

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  • OverDrive Read
  • EPUB ebook

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  • English

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