A lot of facets of this power balance have been mentioned. Here's a new one (I think): Imagine busy CEO B that doesn't care about your time, that you need to

A lot of facets of this power balance have been mentioned. Here's a new one (I think): Imagine busy CEO B that doesn't care about your time, that you need to pester with emails to get his attention. Now imagine thinking-along CEO T that tries to have a well organized inbox, possibly assisted by a secretary, so that when you send him an email you receive an auto-response telling you when and if you should get a response and how you should interpret a no-response; this may include letting people know that too complicated or unclear messages will go unresponded. (Richard Stallmann had this approach when I mailed him years ago, before his scandal, where I'd get a response with an average waiting time in hours, pretty neat. Using NLP probably anyone could filter his/her mail quite efficiently these days.) Who would you want to have as a boss? Yes, it's a power balance. But all parties should wield their power responsibly.