Yes, but the CEO's sole value is setting the corporations "mission statement". There is no other measurement of performance. And - no - connections (many of them directors of other board they sit on) do not net any corporation mega millions of dollars annually, or in even one single year. This blarney that a CEO brings high-powered connections to a corporation is malarky. I believe in the free-market system, but to maintain the same, we must exercise common sense.