Be the Bridge

Remote Workers Using Webex to Connect Anytime, Anywhere I never considered myself as having an accent, but many of my US colleagues ask me where I’m from, and about my accent. Well yes, I guess that to them, I have one. It’s a matter of perspective. The part of the world we live in is our norm, s…

As global citizens, we want the best future for our families, friends and generations to come. We question and dream about what the future may mean for our lives – and for the world we live in. For years, Cisco has been working with governments around the world to help create safer communities, prov…

So often, the problem with predicting the future is that we attempt it based only on what we know today. Of course, the limits of space and time make gazing accurately into the future pretty difficult – I’d have won the lottery by now if that wasn’t the case. But when considering what’s around the c…

Between divided and united, there’s a bridge. Between being left out and welcomed in, there’s a bridge. Between a narrow definition of diversity and full spectrum diversity, there’s a bridge. Between benefiting some and benefiting everyone, there’s a bridge. Between people and communities in need an…

Everyone here at Cisco is overjoyed at the recent announcement that Amy Chang, our Senior Vice President in the Collaboration Technology Group, has been named one of America’s “Top 50 Women in Tech” by Forbes. You can read the story here. The great thing about this list is that to even qualify for n…

Technology holds great promise to improve lives – consider how every second in India, three people experience the Internet for the first time. Or how video collaboration units enable  patients at family health clinics in rural areas in Africa to connect to specialists at larger medical centers. Yet…

I’m writing this on a Sunday.  I do some of my best writing on Sundays, going back to before I knew how to write. On late Sunday mornings, after Church, I would sit at the school desk my Grandma had set up in a covered area of her patio, close to her kitchen.  She and I could carry on a conver…

When we are surrounded by difference, we are better. We know diversity amongst board members, leaders, and teams has impact at scale. California recently became the first state to require public companies to have women on their board. At Cisco, we were co-founded by a woman and have had women on our…

A new journey There is an old proverb that says “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”. I am fortunate enough to have recently been on a family holiday to Scandinavia. In my case, the journey was more like 38,000 kilometers (24,000 miles), from the first step out of my front door…