So I work for a large bank in the United States. Me and my coworkers always joke that whenever something bad or inconvenient happens it’s the CEOs fault. Though it’s just a running joke it got me thinking, on a day to day basis what does a CEO actually do? I get the “Chief Executive Officer” nomenclature means they more than likely make executive decisions but what does that look like? Are they at their desk signing papers all day? Death by meeting?
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I am the CEO of a startup.
Basically, imagine a business is a ship. There’s lot of people that run the ship, but there’s one guy in charge of everyone. His job is to oversee getting the ship to the destination (I.e the business strategy). Now he doesn’t tell the navigator how to run charts or tell the engineer how to manage the engines at a micro level. He just guides everyone at a high level towards the goal. Eg. Tells the navigator and engineer “let’s set a course north at 20 knots”.
Different people do this in different ways. My personal opinion is that a CEO should only be making a few big decisions and supporting everyone who makes all the other decisions.
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