"You have venture capitalists. We view them as experts who also help finance your company and give directions and also some pretty candid discussions about what you have to do better."
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John T. Chambers, born on August 23, 1949, is a prominent American businessman renowned for his transformative leadership at Cisco Systems, where he served as CEO from 1995 to 2015. Under his stewardship, Cisco evolved from a networking hardware company to a global leader in IT solutions, driving innovation and shaping the digital landscape. Chambers is celebrated for his visionary approach and focus on customer-centric strategies, leaving a lasting legacy in technology and entrepreneurship that continues to influence the industry today.
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"At Cisco, we are moving to collaboration teams, groups coming together that represent sales, engineering, finance, legal, etc. And we're training leaders to think across silos."
John T. Chambers
"I wasn't always interested in technology. I had been a student for a long time - I'd earned a bachelor's degree, a law degree, and an MBA - and decided that I wanted to work in a large corporation, focusing on finance and law, in either New York or Chicago."
John T. Chambers"We'll have a sales leader go run engineering. A lawyer go run business development. A business development leader go run our consumer operations. We're going to train a generalist group of leaders who know how to learn and operate in collaboration teamwork. I think that's the future of leadership."
John T. Chambers
"Our line of business structure has served us very well in the past, when customer segments and product requirements were very distinct."
John T. Chambers"The 'No.1 IT company' isn't by volume, it's in relation to business customers because those are my customers, not the consumer. Who do they view as their most important partner? That's my definition of the 'No.1 IT company.'"
John T. Chambers