Ex-Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior Uses Haiku and Painting to Find Balance in Work, Life

Former Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior is a painter and a poet haiku and one of the leading women executives in the world of technology.

For her, art and technology are related. Create art and stressed that this is an amateur artist some of the same challenges of communication and innovation through the creation of new high-tech products, he said.

She also talked about how art helped her weekly "digital detox" and get some perspective on your work if necessary, at a time when he was working seven days a week without interruption. In this way, by what art it is like exercise or other recreational activities: You may not feel you have time to do, but it really helps.

"If you take that time off and come back, you move efficiently," Guerrero said. "What you can not think about work - art, running, unstructured time makes you a better person," he said Guerrero spoke on stage at the conference Tech Bloomberg today. in a speech entitled "The Art and Science of the Code."

Guerrero has been at Cisco since 2008. In recent years has been working in procurement, and distinguished Cisco acquires Meraki and stresses in particular that Sourcefire.

"It's time for the industry to do something different," he said. "For me, I want to go do something very different."

Some of his haiku, which often publishes his Twitter account:

When thoughts come to rest
Each site of a memory
Blessed with defects Home

Rumble ocean
You traces gone, not forgotten
Even arena, a new path

Guerrero took a seat on the Board of Directors Box in March. She resigned as chief technology officer of Cisco, on June 2, but remains as a strategic advisor to the business.