More and more CEOs have become conscious that they are the CEO of marketing. You're selling trust.

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The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.

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In the industrial age, the CEO sat on the top of the hierarchy and didn't have to listen to anybody... In the information age, you have to listen to the ideas of people regardless of where they are in the organization.

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In business, today the person at the top is seen as an integral part of the company's image, which is encouraged by the mass media. Much of my work is communicating internally and externally.

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The salary of the chief executive of the large corporation is not a market reward for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.

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Regarded as a means, the businessman is tolerable. Regarded as an end, he is not so satisfactory.

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The successful executive � the leader, the innovator � is the exceptional man.

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The American people will find it hard... to accept a situation in which a tiny handful of steel executives whose pursuit of private power and profit exceeds their sense of public responsibility can show such utter contempt for the interests of 185 million Americans.

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Decentralization or not, an industrial corporation is not the mildest form of organization...! never minimized the administrative power of the chief executive.

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The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.

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