November 17, 2024

Fearless Journeys: Alex Goryachev

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Alex Goryachev, Managing Director of Innovation Strategy and Programs for Cisco Systems and author of the new book, "Fearless Innovation: Going Beyond the Buzzword to Continuously Drive Growth, Improve the Bottom Line, and Enact Change."

In this clip, he discusses his life growing up in the Soviet Union, his work in Silicon Valley, and his experiences seeing Russia after the fall of the USSR. The key to innovation is diversity, inclusion, and being connected.

This video originally appeared in Agents of Innovation on April 13, 2021

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