cisco global sales experience

January 15, 2019

LIFE AT CISCO

Welcome to the Pressure Cooker:  How Will You Perform?

I learned a lot from my friend and Cisco’s former CEO, John Chambers, and he would always tell me: “You learn the most about people when they are under pressure.” It’s a fascinating personal and professional development question:  how will you react to pressure, pressure so intense it makes your hea…

January 31, 2013

DIGITAL AND SOCIAL

Connect, Recognize, and Motivate: Cisco’s Global Sales Experience (GSX) 2012, Part Two

In my previous blog post I discussed the format of GSX (Cisco’s annual global sales meeting) and tactics deployed to listen to, engage with, and motivate the audience. In this blog post I am going to dive into new approaches we took to enable peer networking and team appreciation. Enabling meaningfu…