What in the shit is a Chief Strategy Officer?

Chief Sandwich Orderer? (You'll understand the joke if you read the post.)

Here's something I've absolutely never understood: the Chief Strategy Officer.

Let's run through this pretty quickly. First, you need to understand the numbers here. From the mid-1980s to the mid-2000s, the average size of the executive team -- i.e. the C-Suite -- doubled, from 5 to 10. So in the mid-1980s, it was probably:

• CEO

• CFO

• COO

• CMO

• Maybe one more

Now t…