04.5
CEO = CSO
The published equation: the executive seat and the strategy seat are one problem.
The founder’s account of this practice names an equation, CEO = CSO. Chief executive and chief strategy officer are not two decorations. When they are split without a ladder between them, the board appoints one and hopes the other appears. The practice treats that hope as a missing step.
The same account points to José María Vich as someone who implements the equation in the Americas. That is a published reference, not a claim that he sits in Frankfurt or holds a seat here. The Frankfurt work is to make the equation visible in the room: who holds strategy, who holds the executive decision, and whether those are one person or a pair with a written step between them.
A board that wants the equation examined uses the strategy ladder and, when the chair’s own preference is the obstacle, the ego-control session. The equation is the sheet. The sessions are how it is tested.