What exactly is a CEO?

Question

What exactly is a CEO?

Answer 1

The top person at a company who generally is overpaid. They also have items written into their contract so if they get fired they get a payoff for getting fired.

Answer 2

Chief Executive Officer. The big guy.

Answer 3

Chief Executive Officer runs the business - depends on the business but they also have the COO (chief operating officer) and the CFO (chief financial officer)

Answer 4

Chief Executive Officer.  The one responsible for the performance of the overall company.  They have hiring and firing authority in any part of the company and, in some jurisidictions, personally responsible for the profitability of the company.  

While they have a lot of power, they also have a lot of responsibility.  Some industries a good CEO can predict the change in the market they sell into with the equivalence of shooting a plate thrown in the air while they are blindfolded.

Answer 5

This tells you what he does, his responsibilities, his duties, etc.

Answer 6

the one that runs the company

chief

executive

officer

Answer 7

Usually the one who has the LEAST amount of knowladge about the company hehe.

Its actually Chief Executive Officer