Kim Chau

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A trusted leader with over 15 years in B2B technology marketing, Kim leads, recruits, develops, and manages global end-to-end marketing organizations to enable sales and grow business across industries. With proven expertise in scaling complex technology and cloud-centric solutions, she excels in brand management, AR/PR comms, digital/social/web, demand generation, GTM, product marketing, events and account-based marketing, MarTech, partner/alliance ecosystem programs, BDR, sales enablement, and performance analytics.
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What Is Marketing, Really? Why Founders and CEOs Must Lead the Most Misunderstood Function in the Business

What Is Marketing, Really? Why Founders and CEOs Must Lead the Most Misunderstood Function in the Business

Thu, Jul 9, 2026 | Posted by Michael Lang

 

Executive Takeaways

  • Marketing is a core enterprise capability, not a support function, and deserves the same CEO-level engagement as Finance and Operations.
  • Without a unifying system, individually reasonable decisions accumulate into random acts of marketing.
  • Modern tools make execution faster, but they don't create strategic clarity, so the gap between activity and alignment keeps widening.
  • CEOs can't delegate marketing entirely. Leading it means ensuring insight, strategy, and execution stay connected.

This blog is part of Chief Outsiders’ Marketing Leadership for CEOs series, an ongoing examination of the critical dimensions of Marketing (the capital “M” is intentional, as you’ll see) that every CEO needs to understand.

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