# Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins on Retaining Employees Engaged Right Now Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/harvard-business-review-7777387/cisco-ceo-chuck-robbins-on-keeping-employees-engaged-right-now Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/harvard-business-review-7777387/cisco-ceo-chuck-robbins-on-keeping-employees-engaged-right-now.md Podcast: [Harvard Business Review](https://stenobird.com/podcast/harvard-business-review-7777387) Published: 2026-07-19T18:30:00+00:00 Episode link: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/VG2813698427.mp3?updated=1778470534 Audio file: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/VG2813698427.mp3?updated=1778470534 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/harvard-business-review-7777387/episodes/cisco-ceo-chuck-robbins-on-keeping-employees-engaged-right-now Duration seconds: 3635 ## Resource Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins on Keeping Employees Engaged Right Now 18 Nov 2020 --- We speak with Chuck Robbins, CEO of Cisco Systems, on the future of work, on how American business can get back on track, and on the challenges of leading through crisis. We also discuss how Cisco achieves high levels of employee satisfaction and how it's trying to sustain a strong culture during the pandemic. --------------------------------------------------------------------- At Harvard Business Review, we believe in management. If the world’s organizations and institutions were run more effectively, if our leaders made better decisions, if people worked more productively, we believe that all of us — employees, bosses, customers, our families, and the people our businesses affect — would be better off. So we try to arm our readers with ideas that help them become smarter, more creative, and more courageous in their work. We enlist the foremost experts in a wide range of topics, including career planning, strategy, leadership, work-life balance, negotiations, innovation, and managing teams. Harvard Business Review empowers professionals around the world to lead themselves and their organizations more effectively and to make a positive impact. Sign up for Newsletters: https://hbr.org/email-newsletters Follow us: https://hbr.org/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/harvard-business-review/ https://www.facebook.com/HBR/ https://twitter.com/HarvardBiz https://www.instagram.com/harvard_business_review Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/harvard-business-review-7777387/episodes/cisco-ceo-chuck-robbins-on-keeping-employees-engaged-right-now/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/harvard-business-review-7777387/cisco-ceo-chuck-robbins-on-keeping-employees-engaged-right-now.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.