Most at Cisco are in denial as to their market worth and yet still full of hubris and self importance because of the BS they peddle internally at Cisco. Most Cisco skills are worthless in the open market and you'd be lucky to be on 50% of what you make at Cisco. That's why LR cycles spark such panic at Cisco, most people are useless and worthless. You might have to look for a real job and have real skills and not the politicking, brown nosing and PPT BS you do at Cisco. What Cisco does is not strategic, no matter how many times you tell yourself otherwise. No one gives a fu-k about routing and switching and wireless and Cisco's credibility in security and UC is almost zero. Sure, some of the functions that the over-priced, poor quality sh-t Cisco makes is needed to some extent for packet shift but competitors can do it at half the price without all the BS.. If "solutions" like SDA, ACI, Spaces, Observability and Smart Buildings were really so incredibly transformative, why aren't so many more doing it? I'll tell you why, it's complete BS, fixing problems that are wildly exaggerated, don't exist and customers are wising up. The down-voters to this comment - you keep believing your own greatness if it makes you feel good about yourself but you better believe a day of reckoning is coming.