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Purpose and benefits

John Chambers is best known for his management of Cisco Systems, which dominates the market for routers—the boxes that direct data traffic on the Internet—and his evangelising of the Internet. When he arrived at Cisco it was a growing, but still small, company worth $9 billion. In the space of five years, Chambers turned it into a networking colossus with a market cap that touched $555 billion. He achieved this by taking measures that included focusing on teams; promoting excellent customer service; instilling a distinctive corporate culture; and ravenously acquiring other companies.