Calm Is the Edge: John Chambers, Former Chairman & CEO of Cisco

John Chambers (CEO of JC2 Ventures) ran Cisco for 20 years, from 1995 to 2015. He made 180 acquisitions, built the company into, at the time, the most valuable in the world, and in the year he stepped down, Harvard Business Review ranked him the 2nd best performing CEO in the world. He now runs JC2 Ventures, where he backs and mentors the next generation of founders. In those two decades, John faced the four hardest tests of a CEO: a market in transition, a bubble, the bureaucracy that comes with scale, and business model disruption. Most CEOs meet one or two in a career. John faced all four, and he and Darren mine the lessons from each. They also explore how John's dyslexia helps him detect patterns and capitalize on them before anyone else does. Find out more about the Trium Group at triumgroup.com One of One is produced by Darren Gold, Emily Shaw, and Karen Welsh. Engineering by Aja Simpson.