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Connecting the Dots de John Chambers

Connecting the Dots

Autor John Chambers, Diane Brady
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 25 sep 2018

Ceea ce diferențiază Connecting the Dots de restul literaturii de business este perspectiva unui lider care nu s-a limitat la supraviețuirea în Silicon Valley, ci a dictat ritmul inovației timp de două decenii. Găsim în această carte nu doar o cronică a succesului Cisco, ci o strategie riguroasă de anticipare a punctelor de inflexiune ale pieței. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care John Chambers transformă vulnerabilitatea personală — lupta cu dislexia — într-un avantaj competitiv, dezvoltând o capacitate unică de a vedea modele acolo unde alții văd doar haos. Descoperim aici un manual de execuție pragmatic: cum să gestionezi 180 de achiziții fără a distruge cultura organizațională și cum să transformi o companie cu un singur produs într-un pilon al infrastructurii internetului global. Complementar volumului The Cisco Way, care se concentrează pe tranziția către servicii, Connecting the Dots acoperă arhitectura mentală a CEO-ului și mecanismele de luare a deciziilor în momente de criză profundă. În timp ce The CEO of Technology oferă interviuri transversale cu lideri din domeniu, lucrarea lui Chambers este un studiu de caz vertical, onest și extrem de specific despre reziliență și scalare. Textul este scris cu o autoritate derivată din rezultate palpabile, precum transformarea a 10.000 de angajați în milionari. Ritmul este alert, axat pe lecții învățate din confruntările directe cu giganți precum IBM sau Hewlett-Packard. Nu este doar o biografie, ci un set de instrumente pentru liderii care vor să înțeleagă cum să 'disrupă' propria organizație înainte ca piața să o facă pentru ei.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780316486545
ISBN-10: 031648654X
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 159 x 236 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Grand Central Publishing

De ce să citești această carte

Această carte este esențială pentru antreprenorii și managerii care vizează scalarea accelerată. Veți învăța cum să citiți semnalele pieței înainte ca ele să devină evidente și cum să construiți parteneriate strategice pentru o creștere sustenabilă. Este un ghid practic despre leadership în era digitală, oferit de un om care a modelat arhitectura tehnologică a lumii moderne.

Despre autor

John Chambers este președinte executiv emerit la Cisco Systems, unde a servit ca CEO timp de 20 de ani, fiind recunoscut global pentru viziunea sa în tehnologie și management. Sub conducerea sa, Cisco a devenit coloana vertebrală a internetului. În prezent, conduce JC2 Ventures, unde investește în start-up-uri și consiliază lideri de stat în strategii de digitalizare. Diane Brady, co-autoarea volumului, este o jurnalistă de business premiată, cunoscută pentru analizele sale de profunzime în publicații de renume precum Bloomberg Businessweek și Wall Street Journal.

Descriere scurtă

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.

Notă biografică

John Chambers, chairman emeritus at Cisco, served as the company's CEO for more than two decades. He has worked closely with government leaders from around the world, serving on committees for two U.S. presidents and earning the first-ever Clinton Global Citizen Award as well as the Woodrow Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship. He is also the founder and CEO of JC2 Ventures, where he helps disruptive startups to scale and lead market transitions.

Diane Brady is an award-winning journalist and consultant who has covered the global business landscape for Bloomberg Businessweek, The Wall Street Journal, and other media outlets. Her previous book, Fraternity, was named one of Amazon's best books of 2012.

Recenzii

"[A] terrific book."—Forbes.com
"Connecting the Dots is powerful, penetrating, and unblinkinglypersonal. With a rich store of behind-the-scenes stories from his remarkable 20years as CEO, John Chambers shares insights into the people, principles, andplaybooks that powered Cisco's growth into a global Internet giant. Here is amust-read on best practices for any manager in any industry."—John Doerr, Chairman, Kleiner Perkins and bestselling author of Measure What Matters
"By turns practical and insightful, John Chambers' indefatigable spirit, sound judgment, and depth of experience shine through in Connecting the Dots. Throughout his career, Chambers set a standard of leadership and innovation over the better part of 20 years. And these lessons apply to all of us--in business and in life."
—Jamie Dimon, Chairman and CEO, JPMorgan Chase

"Great leaders are distinguished by the ability tomove their society or company from where it is to where it has never been. They act on the basis of a set of core principles, both intangible andinspirational. John Chambers, an accomplished executive in his own right,distills those principles in Connecting the Dots with elegance andcommon sense."—Henry Kissinger, former U.S. Secretary of State
"I watched John Chambers lead Cisco through massivetech disruptions, countless economic cycles, and scores of acquisitions thatkilled many of his competitors. This is a compelling story of effectiveleadership through good times and bad, filled with smart lessons aboutinnovation, team building, and managing creativity. An important and relevantread-I highly recommend it."—Jack Welch, founder of the Jack Welch Management Institute, and former CEO of General Electric
"I'vealways known John Chambers to be wise, and credit him for the business ideas that helpedOracle be successful. With the brilliant insights found in Connecting theDots, I learned even more that I plan to use. Whether it's how tolearn from difficult setbacks, find your courage as a leader, focus onthe customer, and so much else, this is a must-read for any business person. Avery personal and incredibly engaging book!"—Safra Catz, CEO, Oracle

"Explains how Chambers reinvented himself and his company over two decades and shares the leadership strategies that made him one of the last CEOs of a major tech company from his generation to step down."—The Washington Post

"If you want to learnfrom a master of Silicon Valley, then look no further than John Chambers. Whathe teaches the world's best tech startups today is captured in Connecting theDots."—Marc Andreessen, General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz
"Connecting the Dots is full of tips on everything from setting big goals and beating competitors, to surviving failures....At the age of 69, Chambers now sees dyslexia as one of his super-powers, forcing him to process information differently and allowing him to see patterns; a trait all business leaders must develop."—Business Insider
"Connecting the Dots has some sobering words for corporate America and for our government....Chambers' most pressing worry [is] that we are no longer the world's most innovative country....[Connecting the Dots] also passes on plenty of uplifting takeaways for business leaders of companies large and small."—Fortune.com
"Over the years, I've seen John Chambers achieve the virtuallyimpossible, and all by following his blueprint, which he finally revealsin Connecting the Dots. He has done us all a service by makingit available, and the smartest thing you could do for yourself and your companyis to make it your bible."—Meg Whitman, former President and CEO, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
"John Chambers shares his secrets for building andleading one of the most innovative and customer-centric companies in theworld. This is an invaluable resource for any CEO, entrepreneur, orleader looking to compete in the digital age."—Aaron Levie, cofounder and CEO of Box