For example, the day-to-day management decisions may be handled by the COO, the CEO, or the president. One person might also hold two or all three titles simultaneously, further blurring the lines between each position’s area of responsibility.
However, any C-suite title comes with the powers and responsibilities of running the business from one of the highest offices available. Ideally, every C-suite executive should be very experienced at what they do. A bumbling CFO or an unsophisticated CEO is often a recipe for failure.
When a cable news network wants a company’s insights on current business metrics or the world economy, their reporters don’t go looking for frontline workers and mid-level managers. They go straight to the C-suite, where an executive’s statements come with the authority of top-level leadership.