CUCKOO
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CAO: Chief Administrative Officer
CBO: Chief Banking Officer
CCO: Chief Compliance Officer
CDO: Chief Development Officer
CEO: Chief Executive Officer CFO: Chief Financial Officer
CGO: Chief Globalization Officer |
CHO: Chief Health Officer
CIO: Chief Information Officer CJO: Chief Judicial Officer CKO: Chief Knowledge Officer
CLO: Chief Logistics Officer
CMO: Chief Marketing Officer CNO: Chief Nursing Officer COO: Chief Operations Officer
CPO: Chief Procurement Officer |
CQO: Chief Quality Officer
CRO: Chief Risk Officer
CSO: Chief Supply (Chain) Officer
CTO: Chief Technology Officer CUO: Chief Underwriting Officer
CVO: Chief Visionary Officer CWO: Chief Web Officer CXO: Chief eXperience Officer |
and now a CCO: Chief Commercial Officer.
I think we need a Chief Universal Cipher Keeping Ontological Officer, or CUCKOO, to keep track of them all. I know I'm going cuckoo trying to keep track of them ...
The proliferation of Chiefly titles is quite funny, but I'm more amused by there adoption by people without any staff. "Chief xxx Officer" suggests that there are subordinate "xxx officers".
And as is implied if one is correctly reading between the lines, a major problem with corporate America is the fact that we have way to many chiefs and way to few Indians. It's interesting to me that with all of these titles and all of the responsibility they imply that they never seem to be involved in the decison making process, and it is always some new excuse when results are poor.