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John Chambers and the skyrocketing success of his company have been the subject of extensive media coverage. He's been interviewed on CNN, CNBC, and by Charlie Rose on PBS.

Business Week ed him among its "Top 25 Managers in 1996" and he was one of CMP Media's "Hot 25 CEOs of 1996." Here's more of the media's take on Chambers and Cisco Systems:

"Chambers . . . attracts more groupies at trade shows than the Spice Girls [do] on a London street."
-- Time

"[Working at Cisco Systems] is addictive. It can take over your life if you let it. It's electronic heroin."
-- Wired

"CEO John Chambers has seen the highs and the lows of the technology business in his career and has parlayed that experience into winning tactics at Cisco."
-- Boston Globe

"Chambers not only transformed [Cisco] into a $4 billion provider of everything from workgroup switches to WAN backbones, he's also been at the forefront of an industry-wide consolidation frenzy that continues today."
-- InformationWeek

"Whether Cisco can dominate the WAN market remains to be seen. But its pragmatic, Southern-born leader has stormed the field like Sherman [took] Atlanta."
-- VARBusiness

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