Inder Sidhu

Senior Vice President of Strategy and Planning for Worldwide Operations at Cisco, Business Author

  • Inder Sidhu Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type

    $20,001 - $30,000

  • Languages Spoken

    English, Hindi

  • Travels From

    California, USA

  • Inder Sidhu Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type

    $20,001 - $30,000

  • Languages Spoken

    English, Hindi

  • Travels From

    California, USA

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Win by Doing Both

• Sustaining and Disruptive Innovation • Existing and New Business Models • Optimization and Reinvention • Satisfied Customers and Gratified ...

• Sustaining and Disruptive Innovation

• Existing and New Business Models

• Optimization and Reinvention

• Satisfied Customers and Gratified Partners

• Established and Emerging Countries, Doing Things Right and Doing What Matters

• Superstar Performers and Winning Teams

• Authoritative Leadership and Democratic Decision Making

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About Keynote Speaker Inder Sidhu

Inder Sidhu’s Key Accomplishments Include . . . 
Inder Sidhu is Senior Vice President of Strategy and Planning for Worldwide Operations at Cisco, the $40 billion worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. A member of the company’s Operating Committee, Inder Sidhu also co-leads Cisco’s Emerging Countries Council, which drives business success in fast-growing territories like China, India, Brazil, Mexico and the Middle East. 

Inder Sidhu is also the author of Doing Both: How Cisco Captures Today’s Profit & Drives Tomorrow’s GrowthIn a highly unstable global economy, Cisco has doubled revenue, tripled profits and quadrupled earnings per share. How? In his book, Inder Sidhu explains why “doing both” is today’s best strategy. Published in 2010, the book identifies common business dichotomies and explores how successful companies avoid difficult tradeoffs and instead achieve bigger outcomes by “doing both.” Using this framework, Inder Sidhu offers a unique view of Cisco’s consistent record of innovation and high performance. By drawing on his company’s hard-won insights and the experiences of other companies like Procter & Gamble, Whirlpool and Harley-Davidson, Inder Sidhu presents a complete blueprint for “doing both” in your organization as well.

Since joining Cisco in 1995, Inder Sidhu has served in executive leadership positions in the Sales, Services, and Business Development organizations. He was the VP/GM Worldwide Professional Services, VP/GM Advanced Engineering Services, and VP Strategy and Business Development, Customer Advocacy.

Inder Sidhu is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School and holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania. He also holds a Master’s degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India.

More About Inder Sidhu . . .
Inder Sidhu was previously with McKinsey & Company, an international management consulting firm. He has also worked at Intel and Novell.

Inder Sidhu channels his passion for education into guest lecturing at Harvard Business School, Stanford University, and the Haas School of Business at the University of California – Berkeley. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Goodwill of Silicon Valley.

Inder Sidhu lives in California with his wife and three children.

Testimonials

“The best business books build around a single idea, often contrarian and counterintuitive. Everyone knows you can’t have your cake and eat it, too. One of the first things you learn at business school is that management is about making difficult choices. Well, not always. This book persuades the reader that in decision making ‘and’ is often better than ‘or.’ Well worth the read.”

Sir Terry Leahy

CEO,Tesco

“Companies are often confronted with false choices, such as disruptive or sustaining innovation and optimization or reinvention. This book draws on Cisco’s impressive track record over the last decade to illustrate that the correct strategy is always to do both.”

RatanTata

Chairman,Tata Group

“I have a very short personal list of ‘most-admired companies,’ and Cisco is one of them. Its management team has figured out how to break many ‘either-or’ tradeoffs that limit most companies’ abilities to innovate and grow. This book is a”lucid, cogent chronicle of how they do this.Your entire management team should read it.”

Clayton Christensen

Robert & Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School, and author,The Innovator’s Dilemma

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