There is no evidence that shorter CMO tenure caused short-termism
The claim that marketing got more short-termist because CMO tenure has shrunk has no data behind it. CMO tenure sits around four years, slightly below other C-suite roles, and Binet has seen evidence that tenures have lengthened. The explosion of short-term metrics is the bigger culprit.
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