CEO to HR: "You are simply only here to advise me..."

Nothing 'simple' about advising a CEO (particularly one with that attitude), - 'advising' is about influencing and convincing. A key role of an effective HR professional is to be able to create the case for why we are advising the solution being presented and to do that in a compelling way. Good leaders will quickly see that a strong people strategy is essential to their success when they are trying to 'run the company' and the passion of their people expert is something to nurture and partner with, not to dismiss. However, if the CEO still decides he wants to be his own HR expert then in the end we are all CEO of our own career and that is our business not his.

Nothing 'simple' about advising a CEO (particularly one with that attitude), - 'advising' is about influencing and convincing. A key role of an effective HR professional is to be able to create the case for why we are advising the solution being presented and to do that in a compelling way. Good leaders will quickly see that a strong people strategy is essential to their success when they are trying to 'run the company' and the passion of their people expert is something to nurture and partner with, not to dismiss. However, if the CEO still decides he wants to be his own HR expert then in the end we are all CEO of our own career and that is our business not his.