Robin Liebowitz

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A strategic business and marketing leader with post M&A integration experience, Robin launches and grows businesses in highly complex industries and markets. With a strong focus on applying analytics to inform decisions and measure results, she develops tailored strategies to position products and solutions, generate demand, enter new markets, and achieve targeted revenue growth. Partnering closely with business and sales heads, she assesses the critical marketing requirements and resources, navigates complex environments, building relationships at all levels of the organization and mobilizing teams to produce positive and lasting results.
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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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