Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins on AI transformation, hard decisions, and leading at speed

Podcast: The CEO Signal · Semafor Podcasts

Opublikowano: 2026-05-28

In this episode of The CEO Signal, Chuck Robbins talks about the people decisions behind a transformation as sweeping as Cisco's repositioning for the age of AI. He says executives need to “disagree and commit,” but warns that CEOs shouldn't tolerate people who aren't on board with the strategy. “The one thing that is like death in an organization is passive aggressive behavior,” he says. Hosted by Penny Pritzker and Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, the conversation explores how Robbins has pushed Cisco beyond its traditional networking hardware roots toward software, security, recurring revenue and the infrastructure behind AI. He describe...