Leaders in AI need to reinvent themselves every year, says Cisco’s former CEO

John Chambers has a message for executives in AI: Remake yourself every year or risk falling behind.

“Most leaders do not reinvent themselves,” said the former Cisco CEO and current VC on an episode of the “Grit” podcast published Monday. “As a leader in AI, you have to reinvent yourself, in my opinion, every year.”

This is because AI is moving in “internet terms” at “five times the speed” and delivering “three times the results,” Chambers said.

That pace means…