How many people are in Office of the CEO - 1, 2 or 3?

How many people are needed to create an Office of the CEO?

I recently ran a LinkedIn poll on the Office of the CEO and about 300 people voted Office of the CEO poll on personnel. The preliminary results are in:

About 2/3 of you believe that you need 3 people to form the Office of the CEO - a Chief of Staff, Executive Assistant and the CEO.

Just under a 1/3 of you believe that you need just 2 people - Chief of Staff OR Executive Assistant alongside the CEO.

And about 1/20 of you believe that the CEO can create the Office of the CEO herself and operate solo, if need be.

I have a theory on why option 3 was most popular - the term Office implies rigor, structure, and a more buttoned-up culture.

This means that there are codified roles & responsibilities, standard processes and special tools that are configured to make the team perform at an extremely high level.

Plus, effectively delivering all Executive Operations roles & responsibilities as a solo executive enablement resource can be overwhelming.

This is what I found anecdotally in my 1:1 research interviews with a dozen Office of the CEO professionals.

3 seems to be the magic number for the Office of the CEO.

Vote in my poll below and let’s see if you and my newsletter audience thinks the same.

Chief of Staff Jobs

Welcome to our Chief of Staff job board. As always, if you have a Chief of Staff job you’d like shared to 1,000+ readers of this newsletter, let us know.

Chief of Staff, Gold House, Los Angeles, LA or New York, NY

Associate Chief of Staff, Goldman Sachs, Dallas, TX

Chief of Staff & Culture, Southern Poverty Law Center, Atlanta, GA

Chief of Staff, Product, Patreon, New York, NY

Chief of Staff, District 13, City of Baltimore, Baltimore, MD

Deputy Chief of Staff & Strategic Initiatives Manager, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

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