Review of the book "Combining the dots". Leadership lessons” ("Connecting the Dots: Lessons for Leadership in a Startup World")

I recently read a book by John Chambers. 20 He was the CEO of Cisco and previously worked at IBM and Wang Laboratories. Many believe that John was a great visionary and his ability to sense subtle changes in the market allowed Cisco to choose the right direction and successfully buy small companies, expanding its product portfolio. As a result, after leaving the company and moving to JC2 Ventures, John decided to write a book in which he summarized his experience. And the book consists of 4 parts 13 Chapters that are built into an interesting and personal story. More information about the book can be read in my blogPlus I've been before. told John Chambers' approach to mergers and acquisitions, which was one of the chapters of this book.

P.S. According to Russian Publishers (MYTH) This book is well complemented by books:

• Good to great. ("Good to Great") Jim Collins is an important book about the culture of companies, but the conclusions of which are questioned by the results of the “great companies” after the book’s release. This is well described in the book “The Halo Effect”. ("The Halo Effect")Which I've written about before. survey.
• Update the page. ("Hit Refresh") Satya Nadella is a great book about the transformation of Microsoft. sammari this book
• Principles. ("Principles: Life and Work") Ray Dalio is a cool book with a list of principles, many of which sound simple, but very difficult to implement in practice, but I haven’t talked about it yet.
• Leadership Principles. ("Leading Matters") John Hennessy is an interesting book from the co-founder of MIPS Corporation and the former rector of Stanford University. John also served on the board of directors of Cisco and Google. This book is similar to the John Chambers book discussed in this article. By the way, I already wrote on it. brief

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