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Old 09-25-2007, 08:26 PM   #279
xoxoxoBruce
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Originally Posted by theotherguy View Post
I report directly to the CEO at my company and he has always been fair. Actually, he is a pretty good mentor. He takes time to discuss with me why he makes some decisions he makes and how it will affect employees and the bottom line. I know that not all CEOs are like him, but I feel certain he is not in the minority.
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Originally Posted by DanaC View Post
The CEO of a large company is responsible for the whole thing. He has to be omniscient...except that he doesn't. He has to be wholly responsible, but I doubt the CEO actually looks at individual stationery orders, he has other people to look and filter the relevant information through to him.
The CEO may be a great guy, but in most large companies/organizations, the majority of the employees have no contact with the CEO. In the layers of middle management, too often made up of idiots, the message from the top, as well as the information from the bottom, gets garbled.
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