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Cisco's John Chambers: The essential playbooks — and when to use them
Masters of Scale
How to Scale Successful Acquisitions
In the second half of the 1990s, Cisco scaled aggressively. By 2001, the company had grown from 400 employees to 48,000 and M&A continued to be at the heart of that immense scale. You've got to get a process that allows you to move with speed so you don't make the same mistake again and again. As you scale, the larger your library of playbooks needs to become.
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