Silicon Valley visionary John Chambers shares the lessons that
transformed a dyslexic kid from West Virginia into one of the world's
best business leaders and turned a simple router company into a global
tech titan.
When Chambers joined Cisco in 1991, it was a company with 400 employees,
a single product, and about $70 million in revenue. When he stepped down
as CEO in 2015, he left a $47 billion tech giant that was the backbone
of the internet and a leader in areas from cybersecurity to data center
convergence. Along the way, he had acquired 180 companies and turned
more than 10,000 employees into millionaires. Widely recognized as an
innovator, an industry leader, and one of the world's best CEOs,
Chambers has 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.
Now Chambers is sharing his unique strategies for winning in a digital
world. From his early lessons and struggles with dyslexia in West
Virginia to his bold bets and battles with some of the biggest names in
tech, Chambers gives readers a playbook on how to act before the market
shifts, tap customers for strategy, partner for growth, build teams, and
disrupt themselves. He also adapted those lessons to transform
government, helping global leaders like French President Emmanuel Macron
and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to create new models for growth.
As CEO of JC2 Ventures, he's now investing in a new generation of
game-changing startups by helping founders become great leaders and
scale their companies.
Connecting the Dots is destined to become a business classic,
providing hard-won insights and critical tools to thrive during the
accelerating disruption of the digital age.
