Cisco’s top exec spent 25 years climbing the ladder at one firm—she tells Gen Z and middle managers ‘you just need to be patient’ and do this one thing

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• Gen Z and millennial workers think job-hopping is the only way up the ladder these days. But Cisco’s U.K. CEO’s career journey proves that patience could be key to long-term success.

Company loyalty is dying. Research has shown that 75% of employees leave their gig before ever getting promoted; They’re giving their bosses just 3 years to promote them before concluding the job is a dead end and jumping ship.