If you search for Chevron people with "president" in their title on Linkedin, you turn up nearly 800. Who are we fooling? 800 presidents and vice presidents? The majority doing nothing aside from fancy expense account meals and travel.
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One can be a country manager "President" starting around PSG24 or 25 (e.g. Denmark, Vietnam, Norway, Colombia, etc). Smaller countries are gone. I wonder what the lowest PSG country manager is today. CM is a great job - complete autonomy in country for pretty much everything. The King!
In the old days, the title "president" was meant to carry some weight in overseas offices. It was handed out like candy. The trouble was, those "presidents" repatriated and expected to be "president" back in US offices. Most who insisted were put into CTC...
When you come for the king, you best not miss…
King in the Castle, King in the Castle, I have a chair! Go do dis, go do dis, King in the Castle.
These pretentious titles are only for egotistical people who want to make it very clear that they are higher up on the org chart than you, make more money than you, and somehow are better than you. They like to think they can sh!t down on you.
People like to SOUND and LOOK important. It puffs up their egos. That’s why they LIKE these tiles. But to be worth having such a job title, the person MUST really be important in that role. Honestly, only about 1% of those employees really deserve those titles. I have a successful business, yet I prefer no title, I just call myself the owner. My employees deserve just as much credit for the success of my business as me. Without them, I have no business.
Wow! How many champions, advisors, performance coordinators, interface managers etc I wonder?
I have known leaders overseas to print biz cars with completely preposterous titles for local use.
titles are completely at will. why dont they match workday? oh thats right...org charts are made up too.
Our goals seem to be:
- Dividend
- Stock Buybacks
- Executive compensation
- Upper level managers
.....
- Rank and file employees
So yeah it makes sense.
Anybody can make up that title internally as well. Many do. You can be "VP" of your area if you like.
Anybody can be whatever title they want on LinkedIn. Go look at how many are actual real people who currently have that position. Or even better, look at an internal org chart.