Check With My Chief of Staff

Corporate executives want to sound presidential. In fact, they're tone deaf.

Updated Dec. 31, 2010 12:01 a.m. ET

Gone are the days when you could count the number of chiefs on one hand—CEO, CFO, COO, CMO, CIO. These days there's pretty much a chief for everything—Ethics, Risk, Diversity, Technology, Administration, People and more. Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse, I saw a job posting for a "Chief Office Employee."

But now it seems that for every chief, there needs to be a chief of staff. Even people who aren't yet...

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