I don't know if this is what CEO's primarily do though? That sounds like work that accountants, project managers, and middle managers do. CEO's are often supposed to think strategically. It's gonna sound like I'm jerking them off, but I do legitimately think we shouldn't discount that capitalism is genuinely incentivizing to organize companies in an efficient way for profit. That includes a strategic decision-making apparatus that is looking at steering an entire organisation years ahead of time and discussing these decisions with the "clients" which are the owners to check their approval and their desires. That role is amazing if it's someone constantly checking with the workers and society as a whole (with the party, in a party society). But we use that role to do the worst shit imaginable as a society