Some companies think of corporate responsibility as more of a PR stunt or scam. They may plant a few trees, throw up a few slides, and talk the talk, but they don’t believe. Cisco stands out as a firm that […]
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This month Cisco released their annual Corporate Responsibility report and they have made impressive progress. For 35 years in the networking space, Cisco has driven innovation and reimagined how the world should connect. They are one of two companies in
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Most of the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) efforts I’ve seen are underfunded, understaffed, and are focused on creating the impression that the firm is helping without actually making a difference. One of the exceptions to this unfortunate rule is Cisco,
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A lot of companies have Corporate Responsibility programs, and most of them—in my experience—are more or less lip service and slip when it comes to focusing on making real, measurable change. Cisco is a massive exception in that they, from
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Technology companies, largely thanks to the firms that make their money from ad revenue, are increasingly being viewed as villains. Uncaring behemoths that show up in books like Brotopia as bad actors. But there are firms fighting back against this
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A couple of weeks back I was at Cisco Live and I met with the executives of three interesting startups that Cisco is helping financially. These firms were very different and mostly had little to do with Cisco’s core business,
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This week I was at HP’s Accelerate Executive Forum in Las Vegas. This is basically an HP Channel event and HP LOVES its channel. This is refreshing because, over the years, I’ve been brought in on a number of channel
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