Re: CCIE Bootcamps...PLEASE HELP

["Howard C. Berkowitz" <hcb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2:53 PM -0500 11/25/03, Brad Kessler wrote:
> Can Anyone out there tell me which one of these bootcamps they feel 
> are the best and why...Work is paying so I just need to know which 
> one.  Any help is greatly appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Brad Kessler

Somewhat tongue in cheek, but I keep wondering if Gordon Clogston has 
gotten back into the networking training industry.  He had been a 
training manager at Cisco, and then at Protocol Interface (which was 
reacquired several times, becoming Geotrain, then part of something 
else bought by Global Knowledge).  Last I heard, though, he was doing 
management trainings.

Gordon, although you wouldn't suspect it when he was in wine snob 
mode, actually had been a US Marine drill instructor. Great guy to 
work for -- really believed in Marine concepts of integrity, honor, 
and loyalty up and down.

So while he'd run a fine bootcamp, he may actually be more valuable 
running management trainings from his experience as an outstanding 
manager. One of the dumbest things Cisco ever did was to pass over 
him for promotion to Director of Knowledge Products (as it was at the 
time). The managers selected seemed better fitted for Ignorance 
Products.

Getting serious, there are a lot of good ones, but since so much 
value comes from the instructors, it's hard to tell which ones would 
match your personal style best.  It is worthwhile to try to think of 
how you think you'd learn in a bootcamp, describe your style, and get 
comments here of which instructors might complement that.