"C" Titles: The Crowd at the Top

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Though the Forbes article quoted below was first published in 2012, the continued onslaught of C titles has invited a re-examination of the new corporate power structure based on rank.

I think we do have a  flattened pyramid of corporate hierarchy compared to the by-gone days of the last century's elite few at the top. 

With so many c-level titles, you can take a long walk on the high  "mesa" of the executive circle before reaching the edge.

 C Is For Silly: The New C-Suite Titles
by Genna Goudreau

Excerpt: ...Peter Cappelli, management professor at the University of Pennsylvania, says the new titles are meant to signal—internally, to customers or to governments—that a particular function or task is important and that the people at the top are listening. They may also be a form of ego appeasing and identifying who the important senior people are. “The main question,” he says, “is whether there’s any real substance behind them.”...

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