Musical Chairs?
The trend in boardrooms is to nix a seat--COO.
Where did the COO go? It's a question you might ask lookingat today's organizational charts.
In 1999, there were 249 COOs at large, publicly tradedcompanies; by 2005, the number had dropped to 204, according toCrist Associates, a Hinsdale, Illinois, recruiting and successionplanning firm. General Motors, IBM, Motorola and Procter &Gamble have all nixed the COO position in the past few years.
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