商品描述
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.
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.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
矽谷的願景家約翰·錢伯斯(John Chambers)分享了將一位來自西維吉尼亞州的讀寫障礙孩子轉變為世界最佳商業領袖之一的經驗教訓,並將一家簡單的路由器公司變成全球科技巨頭。
當錢伯斯於1991年加入思科(Cisco)時,這家公司只有400名員工、一個產品,和約7000萬美元的營收。當他在2015年卸任CEO時,他留下了一家市值470億美元的科技巨頭,這家公司是互聯網的支柱,並在從網絡安全到數據中心整合等領域中領先。這段期間,他收購了180家公司,並使超過10,000名員工成為百萬富翁。錢伯斯被廣泛認可為創新者、行業領袖以及世界最佳CEO之一,他成功地超越了幾乎所有曾試圖挑戰思科的競爭對手——如Nortel、Lucent、Alcatel、IBM、Dell和惠普(Hewlett-Packard)等。
現在,錢伯斯分享他在數位世界中獲勝的獨特策略。從他在西維吉尼亞州的早期教訓和與讀寫障礙的鬥爭,到他對一些科技巨頭的勇敢賭注和戰鬥,錢伯斯為讀者提供了一本行動手冊,教導他們如何在市場變化之前採取行動、利用客戶制定策略、合作以促進增長、建立團隊以及自我顛覆。他還將這些教訓應用於政府轉型,幫助法國總統埃馬紐埃爾·馬克龍(Emmanuel Macron)和印度總理納倫德拉·莫迪(Narendra Modi)等全球領導人創造新的增長模式。
作為JC2 Ventures的CEO,他現在正在投資於新一代改變遊戲規則的初創公司,幫助創始人成為偉大的領導者並擴大他們的公司。
《連結點滴》(Connecting the Dots)注定會成為商業經典,提供在數位時代加速顛覆中茁壯成長所需的艱辛洞察和關鍵工具。