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Article: She Wrote the Book: Cisco's Ballard Puts Consumer In Tech.(Cisco Systems Inc.)(Occupation overview)
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- January 26, 2009
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By Leslie Ellis
Peggy Ballard believes that in the business world, we're all the same age: Adult. Likewise for gender: Human. For a woman who began her elegant trailblazing through the technology sector in the 1970s, her wisdom bears notice. 1396927554
She's learned, for instance, that planning trumps worrying -- and to not bring work home, if you're not going to do it. "Otherwise, you'll feel guilty in the morning that you didn't do it," she writes in her 2000 book, You're Already a Success: Thoughts on Beginning Your New Career .
Her intent at the time was to share what she's learned over more than three decades in the technology sector with ...