What exactly is the “Chief of Staff” role?

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Don’t do it, try to be a COO instead. Most people in a firm hate the COS because while that person feels empowered to act on behalf of the CEO (or whatever their boss’s title is) they’re really a disrespected glorified secretary.

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In some companies in industry they drive some projects as well. Basically they take over what their boss does not want to do himself/herself. In some cases they are also the gatekeeper to their boss (as a consultant you discuss deliverables with CoS before you go in meetings). It‘s good to have them on your side as they can be unofficially quite influential for their boss thinking.

In short: can be quite a cool role, but depends on your boss

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Glorified EA. Basically admin role but drives a lot of strategic planning.

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Yep, what M1 said. 💯 admin.

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Was curious about this as well. Any particular career advantage by being a CoS? My only exposure to this role is via government/politics and those chiefs are usually very seasoned and typically go into other leadership roles once done. In the consultant world what can one except as an exit (assuming each firm is a little different)?

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I knew a guy that was CoS to a CEO for a small public firm. When the CEO retire he took over as interim CEO, got a ton of stock and eventually he helped to sell the company. Made out like a bandit

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A certain international Telco is using the CoS role to spin up the next gen of leadership. They're pairing promising young candidates to their various C Suite Execs (CEO, CFO, COO etc) and letting them run high level high impact projects

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