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Every big business needs its own chief political officer
Rolling crises have ensured that government relations is no longer a backwater department
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Big companies need something like a chief political officer, someone who can forge a new era of co-operation between two sides that often despise each other.
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Camilla Cavendish
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Once upon a time, the world was flat, as Thomas Friedman put it, and CEOs didn’t need to check their phones at dinner. Now, it’s one crisis rolling in after another: All bets are off when it comes to supply chains and trade routes, auditors plead “material uncertainty” over accounts, and boards note the dates of elections in wealthy countries.
“Government relations” is no longer a corporate backwater.
