Connecting the dots : leadership lessons in a start-up world John Chambers with Diane Brady.
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TextLanguage: English Publisher: India : HarperCollins Publishers, ©2018Description: xiii, 306 pages ; 24 cmISBN: 9780008297046Subject(s): Leadership | New business enterprises | Success in businessDDC classification: 658.4092 Summary: 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. Now, in collaboration with 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.
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First published in the US by Hachette Books.
Includes index.
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. Now, in collaboration with 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.
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