American - Businessman | August 23, 1949 -
Widening the talent pipeline sufficiently will require a generational commitment to teaching math and science, providing technical training, and mentoring young people of all backgrounds so they understand the full range of possibilities that a career in technology affords.
John T. Chambers
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In 2008, we began an initiative to outsource projects from our Israeli office to three companies in the Palestinian Territories.
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The start of 2016 offers great promise as the world awakens to the power of connectivity and increasing digitization. The new Digital Age is upon us, and it is unlike anything we have experienced before.
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A well-run organization turns over 10% of their organizations, including senior leadership. I don't have the heart to do that.
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When a leader doesn't do his or her job, it isn't just a problem with the person. They take their whole organization down.
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Often, what I tell a new CEO asking for advice, or one of my own new leaders, is the two most important decisions that your team is going to watch is the first person you hire and the first person you promote - because you are saying that's the type of person I want.
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I had two parents who were doctors, and my mom was valedictorian in multiple classes.
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I don't make fun of people. I call people by what they want to be called. What does your best friend call you? What does your spouse call you? It helps you emotionally connect to people.
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It would surprise you how many government and business leaders with dyslexia. Some people view it as a weakness, and maybe it is. What dyslexia forces you to do, you don't go A, B, C, D, E... to Z. I can go A, B... Z with speed.
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It's easy for me to see how a business proposition is going to play out, or who our next-generation competitors are, from taking this data point from this customer and another data point from another customer... and jump to Z.
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The number one objective is that people who make the investment in digitization, whether they are governments or service providers, get a reasonable return.
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It's connectivity that really makes the industrial Internet work: it's giving the right information at the right time to the right person or right machine to make the right decision.
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