Our CEO, John Chambers, wrote about collaboration for the first entry on this new blog. Cisco Vice President Alan Cohen followed up with an interesting take on Unified Communications and where Malcolm Gladwell and Woody Allen fit into the picture.Today, our CEO offers a video blog on his high-level thoughts on collaboration and why it is so important to the economy. He answers the following questions:1. Why is collaboration so important in a global economy?2. What is the most important component of a company’s collaboration strategy?3. How is collaboration changing global management? And why now?4. What is Cisco’s role in collaboration?

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