Topic: John Chambers

Cisco, NASA Bare "Planetary Skin"--Sci-Fi Sensor Eco-Map of San Francisco

Cisco CEO John Chambers is "healthily paranoid," he told the BBC today. Maybe that's why he's planning to spread sci-fi, panopticon-esque vigilance across entire cities and even ecosystems, in a collaboration with NASA ...READ»

Prophet of Productivity

Cisco CEO John Chambers sure showed the chrome-domes in Davos a thing or two.READ»

John Chambers, After the Deluge

How do you guide a legendary growth company through the worst slump in its history? That's the challenge that faces Cisco's CEO. In an in-depth interview, John Chambers explains how to slow down smart, why the Internet still matters, and what to do when your customers stop buying.READ»

How Cisco's CEO John Chambers is Turning the Tech Giant Socialist

A hard-core republican turns Cisco into a socialist enterprise -- one with $26 billion in cash.READ»

• Cisco's CEO John Chambers On How to Weather the Downturn

Cisco's Most Important Meal of the Day

Meeting I Never MissREAD»

3D Breakthrough Changes How We Meet, Share, Buy & Play

He was in Bangalore and his co-presenters were in San Jose, yet Cisco’s CEO appeared live - on thesame stage. How? By using a breathtaking 3D holographic-like technology.They tout it as, “the world’s first real time virtual ...READ»

Feedback

Socialism? We'll admit it: John Chambers's Cisco isn't a "socialist enterprise" in the traditional sense ("Revolution in San Jose," December 2008/January 2009). As senior writer Ellen McGirt explained to one reader, "The ...READ»

Our Forecast: Pragmatic Optimism

A letter from the founding editors.READ»

Thought Leaders: A Top 20 II

We got some great ideas from FC Now readers. Steve Jobs. Jim Collins. John Chambers. All good choices to add to the list. Actually, Jim Collins makes the authors' list at No. 70, but Jobs and Chambers are nowhere to be found among ...READ»

Speedometer

Going fast. Going slow. Going nowhere.READ»

Contributors

Kevin Van Aelst For this issue's Now section, artist Kevin Van Aelst created a fictitious holiday world to spell out the words "December & January." He arranged bits of a broken champagne flute in the spot where he once dropped ...READ»

Flee Market

A Spy in the House of WorkREAD»

Editor's Letter: Bright Spots

Michael Phelps, the Olympic swimmer, stopped by our offices recently. He didn't look like anyone special. Without his gold hardware or a pool to churn through, he could have been any run-of-the-mill mall rat: iPod buds ...READ»

What's Next for the Net?

Fast Talk: A RoundtableREAD»

Grand Junction Networks

In September 1995, Grand Junction Networks was growing out of its skin.READ»

Even Madoff Had Great References

With the daily revelations about executives acting in their own self-interests while their companies, shareholders and the marketplace suffers, you have to wonder who hired all these Nero-clones while Rome burns to the ground? The irony is that they all had stellar references. This article identifies how even great references can lead to hiring mistakes.READ»

Letter from the Editor: Attitude Is Everything

My father-in-law uses an expression, "Attitude is everything." It's his nonconfrontational way of saying, "Stop complaining." This expression has been on my mind lately when I talk to media and advertising executives about the ...READ»

HP Acquires 3Com for $2.7 Billion, Brings Fight to Cisco

The news that Hewlett Packard has just slapped down $2.7 billion to acquire 3Com looks like a move that will be good for the two firms. Both companies' respective products will dovetail nicely to turn HP into what could easily be ...READ»

Cisco's Quick Study

Tom Kelly is using the Web to reinvent training inside the world's most Internet-centric big company. Here's what he's learned about e-learning -- and how it's changing the style and the substance of training at Cisco Systems.READ»

Breaking Down the Best Companies to Work For

Shouldn't it be "The Best Companies For Whom to Work?" Whatever. Let's take a look at the companies making this highly-publicized list for 2008: Number of publishers: Zero.  That's unfortunate now, ...READ»

The Reeducation of Silicon Valley

There's much going wrong in the land of silicon and software. But there's one important thing going right.READ»

Cisco's Collaboration Platform: Facebook for Business?

Not content with bringing socialism to its boardroom, Flip cams to the family room, and comedic product placements to the nation's TV screens, Cisco has just unveiled a set of Web-based communication products that could put the San Jose company into direct competition with both Google and Microsoft.READ»

How High-Profile CEOs Could Revitalize the Libertarian Party

The time is right for Silicon Valley -- style progressivism to woo independents into a political force under the Libertarian Party banner. Here's how.READ»

The Ultimate Guide to Internet Deals

Companies that want to make it big on the Net have to learn how to make deals fast. Here are hands-on lessons and real-world stories from some of the Web's best deal makers. Are you ready to deal?READ»

Cisco's Web Engine: A Growth Machine

When it comes to economic crisis, grizzled veterans like Cisco have stared into the abyss before and lived to tell the tale. We look at how several giants are approaching today's meltdown with distinctive strategies for not only surviving but also thriving.READ»