Cameron HeroldFounder of the COO Alliance & Invest In Your Leaders Training

The Key Differences Explained: CEO vs COO

28 Jan 2023 · 1 min

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A short talk (YouTube video) describing the distinct responsibilities of a CEO as a company scales: owning vision, culture, strategy, recruiting key people, aligning teams, and growing people inside the organization. The speaker frames the CEO–COO connection as a complementary, "two-in-a-box" or "yin and yang" partnership with both roles being the most powerful inside the company.

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The CEO, as the company scales, needs to be in charge of vision, culture, strategy, and often even in terms of kind of the recruiting of the key people to bring into the organization. The CEO needs to figure out how to make all that come true. How do we build that company culture? How do we make the vivid vision come true? How do we bring those key people into the organization and align them and actually get them getting the right things done? And then how do we grow the people in the organization? That's why I think of it like a two in a box or a really yin and yang relationship. The CEO and COO are the most powerful roles inside.