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Neither the President nor the Pope have a considerable amount of power. The office of the pres. was specifically designed to 'not be a king' and he's highly co

Neither the President nor the Pope have a considerable amount of power. The office of the pres. was specifically designed to 'not be a king' and he's highly constrained by the other wings of government. The US was supposed to mostly about the states. The Catholic Church generally gives a very wide berth as to the operational artifacts of Parishes. He's also to some extent a figurehead. CEO means such different things at different scale, at different organizations, it's really hard to compare. I suggest the issues may have a lot to do with short-term vs. long-term incentives. Also - 'average' pay isn't so helpful when there are a few with massive, massive pay packages that skew all of the data.

mcv 8y ago
> Neither the President nor the Pope have a considerable amount of power. Depends on which president you're talking about. The presidents of France and the US have a lot of power, the president of Germany has practically none. Monarchs in modern democracies often have less power than the German president. And while presidents are highly constrained by other branches of the government, many pre-democracy kings didn't have any sort of absolute power either. Ultimately of course, any ruler can only rule with the consent of the people he rules; the real difference is to what extent those limitations are formalised in a law, like the US Constitution or the Magna Carta, and how far those limitations go. In many companies, both the real source of a CEO's power and the real restrictions on his power come from outside the company, not from other employees of that company. The outside law supports the CEO's right to dictate how the company will be run, but also limits how much he can oppress or exploit his workers.