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Do CEOs Matter?

By The Daily Dish

Jun 1 2009, 7:05 AM ET

Harris Collingwood weighs the evidence:

CEOs can matter, but we all might be better off if they didn’t. “Good leaders can make a small positive difference; bad leaders can make a huge negative difference,” Stanford’s Jeffrey Pfeffer told Fortune in 2006. Many Americans, surveying the aftermath of eight years with an Unconstrained Manager as their chief executive, might be tempted to agree.


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