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“We'll have a sales leader go run engineering. A lawyer go run business development. A business development leader go run our consumer operations. We're going to train a generalist group of leaders who know how to learn and operate in collaboration teamwork. I think that's the future of leadership.”
“By exciting citizens about the new digital opportunity, breaking down silos of competing groups to form a truly open innovation ecosystem and shifting day-to-day resources to focus on big long-term investments for the future, countries can ensure that they break through and bridge the digital gap.”
“As a country, we must come together to provide the training, certifications, and jobs that our veterans have earned and deserve.”
“We don't go into a market without a chance of a 40 percent share and sustainable differentiation. We wouldn't get into wiring oil rigs if we didn't believe we could get 40 percent.”
“Wearable technology will tell us how well we are sleeping and whether we need to exercise. Sensors in the street will help us avoid traffic jams and find parking. Telemedicine applications will allow physicians to treat patients who are hundreds of miles away.”
“Once you put in backdoors, once you allow a government to intercept anything they want, you have to give it to other governments around the world. Once you do that, there is no privacy; there is no security. There is no protection for democracy.”
“Today's world requires a different leadership style - more collaboration and teamwork, including using Web 2.0 technologies. If you had told me I'd be video blogging and blogging, I would have said, 'No way.' And yet our 20-somethings in the company really pushed me to use that more.”
“The industry has to learn how to do CEO succession well. If your definition of success is Intel or Microsoft or HP or IBM, that's not a good track record, and yet they are the most successful ones.”
“We know that veterans have valuable skills and experiences that are highly sought after in today's workforce.”
“Digital is going to have five times the impact than the information era. Just because you led the first transition as a company or country, that doesn't mean you will lead in this one.”
“I don't enjoy politics. I like to get things done, and I like Republicans and Democrats, and that doesn't always work well.”
“Our line of business structure has served us very well in the past, when customer segments and product requirements were very distinct.”
“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.”
“When you're a large company with significant market share, it's tempting to view market disruptions as a threat, but we view them as an opportunity.”
“Almost every move in the market is either a move to align with where Cisco is going or to align to compete against us or to utilize that technology.”
“I think Mr Trump is going to be a good president.”
“At Cisco, we are moving to collaboration teams, groups coming together that represent sales, engineering, finance, legal, etc. And we're training leaders to think across silos.”
“I had two parents who were doctors, and my mom was valedictorian in multiple classes.”
“You want to select the right applications at the right time for your industry.”
“Some people need a command-and-control environment.”