Bosses who brag by the book

31 July 2016 - 02:00

By Lucy Kellaway

Showing off if you are a chief executive has never been harder. The traditional ways of flaunting it are out.Conspicuous consumption is not only vulgar but a public relations catastrophe, given that the average CEO in the US now earns 335 times the wage of the average worker.In fact, chief executives have started talking about how little they spend.

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