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Connecting the Dots Audiobook Summary

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.

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Connecting the Dots Audiobook Narrator

Allan Robertson is the narrator of Connecting the Dots audiobook that was written by John Chambers

About the Author(s) of Connecting the Dots

John Chambers is the author of Connecting the Dots

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Connecting the Dots Full Details

Narrator Allan Robertson
Length 8 hours 28 minutes
Author John Chambers
Category
Publisher Hachette Audio
Release date September 25, 2018
ISBN 9781549143137

Subjects

The publisher of the Connecting the Dots is Hachette Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Personal Growth, Self-Help, Success

Additional info

The publisher of the Connecting the Dots is Hachette Audio. The imprint is Hachette Books. It is supplied by Hachette Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781549143137.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

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