CHAPTER SEVEN
Accelerated Leadership
Bob Taccini, a 52-year-old vice president of finance at Cisco Systems, does not consider himself a trendsetter. “I’m not a management fad follower, unless I’m so far behind on the last fad that I’m considered ahead when it comes around again,” he says. “I look at applications and technologies pretty skeptically. But when we cut our travel budgets, using social technologies helped meet my need for personalization with my team. Even when I had a travel budget, I could maybe only get to some of our sites once a year. Management now requires spanning distance, even though we can’t span time. Certainly, as we continue to build a multigeneration work space, social technologies will become more and more the norm.” ...
