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How many people can say that in a moment where the unthinkable has happened in their life their company CEO has taken the time to send a personal note offering his support? We hear it a lot at Cisco that we “have each other’s backs” or that “we’re a family” – but you don’t know how true those words…

How many of you are guilty of having spent hours upon hours sitting at your desk with little to no movement?  I put myself in the top 2%! I work hard, starting at 6:30 am and usually ending around 5 pm or later. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been so focused, I look up and hours have passed w…

People tend to call me because I’m a blend of helpful and optimistic – you might say a caffeine free way to start your day.   So when the phone rang, and I was asked to be part of a well-being initiative Cisco was introducing in our EMEAR region – my Mary Poppins nature kicked in with a quick, “Yes!…

Ochsner Health System is Louisiana’s largest non-profit, academic, healthcare system. In the past ten years, they’ve grown from one hospital to 28 owned and affiliated hospitals, 50 health centers, a fitness chain and more. They employ more than 17,000 employees and over 1,000 physicians in over 90…

After a day of innovating at work, one of the last things many people want to do is sit in traffic waiting to get home.  In Lagos, Nigeria – this is often what happens as the traffic creeps along resulting in over an hours’ worth of commute time.  Vivian Agu, a Cisco Virtual Sales Account Manager in…

I have a mantra. Exercise shouldn’t be lonely or expensive. There are others who share that belief at Cisco, so we decided to “mantra” together. I found my community, my #WeAreCisco TRIBE if you will. Led by the Early Career Network group in Cisco UKI (United Kingdom & Ireland), Sports@Cisco is…

This blog was originally published on the Huffington Post ImpactX. In many parts of the world, being able to download information on a smartphone, tablet or laptop in a few seconds is the norm. In Silicon Valley, wireless high-speed Internet connections are more ubiquitous than Starbucks. Broadband…

As part of the WLC 8.0 release, we addressed customer comments and revamped the user interface (UI) for the MSE. We wanted to make it easier for customers using both MSE and PI to adjust to larger deployments. We also wanted to quicken the pace at which we could deliver features to the customers. To…

This fall your wireless networks will experience many devices upgrading to the new Android 5.0(L-release) and Apple iOS 8 releases (cue: IT managers groan). There have now been many blogs attempting to capture the enhancements expected with these releases. Today I am going to focus on describing how…