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May 12, 2016

LIFE AT CISCO

Cisco Nigeria – Working it Out vs. Sitting in Traffic

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…

May 10, 2016

LIFE AT CISCO

Eating four beetles at Cisco to send three children to school

As I drove to the office one Friday in March, little did I know that my day would end with me eating four beetles. Yes, you read that correctly, BEETLES! The little critters that you find in your garden that look quite like cockroaches. “Why on earth would you do that?” I hear you cry. I am often he…

May 3, 2016

LIFE AT CISCO

Get Your Chuck Facts From This Cisco Employee

Chuck Norris. Chuck Robbins. Same difference. Or so thinks super-social Cisconian Rodney Heron. An Account Executive in Commercial Sales in Victoria (Australia), Rodney has been at Cisco for over 10 years. Rodney kind of likes the “Facts of Chuck Norris” books – he has all three. So when now-C…

April 26, 2016

LIFE AT CISCO

Blab with Cisco’s Liz Centoni

During a recent Blab, we talked to Cisco’s Liz Centoni who is the Vice President of Engineering Strategy and Portfolio Planning and the Chief of Staff to Cisco’s Chief Development Officer. We wanted to dive deeper into her blog post 3 Things to Look for When Choosing a Company from earlier this year…

April 20, 2016

LIFE AT CISCO

Oh snap! Cisco Employees Takeover Snapchat.

The WeAreCisco employee tribe is everywhere, especially in social media. We’re on Twitter, we’re on Instagram, and now we’re on (wait for it) Snapchat! If you’re a Snapchatter, you know that it’s a messaging app with fun filters that lets you post “snaps” with everything from rainbows streaming out…

April 18, 2016

LIFE AT CISCO

From #TechWriter to #TechIcon

How To Be A Nimble Dinosaur On Twitter I think there are a lot of people like me at Cisco. I’m 49 years old, and the house I grew up in didn’t even have a computer. Now I’m a Technical Writer for the dCloud Data Center & Virtualization team, which means that I write about complex Cisco technolog…

April 14, 2016

LIFE AT CISCO

Cisco Veteran Motivates Us All

I entered the United States Marine Corps as a communications radio repair guy, which sounds pretty easy, right? But once you get in country, none of that really matters and during three tours in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom I saw combat each time. Life has a way of always changing regardless o…

April 11, 2016

LIFE AT CISCO

3 Ways to Infuse Innovation with Diversity

I never would have thought that someone with my point of view would be a valued member of a large corporate tech powerhouse like Cisco. Yet, almost two years to the day – and here I am! As a member of the Cisco Hyper Innovation Living Labs team (CHILL for short) my team is all about driving disrupti…

April 7, 2016

LIFE AT CISCO

How One Global Team Works Together!

It is not a surprise to anyone when you hear that Cisco is a global company. From our headquarters in San Jose to where I am in Bangalore, India – in almost every major city across our globe you can find someone living the Cisco Life. In 2008, my journey of digital transformation started. This isn’t…