The cult of the chief executive reached its apogee in the nineteen-nineties, a period when C.E.O.s seemed not so much to serve their companies as to embody them.
The apogee of something such as a culture or a business is its highest or its greatest point. = peak. the most successful part of something = apex (apogée, from apogaeum, from , from apogaios , from apo- ( APOCALYPSE) + ge )
apoapsis in Earth orbit; the point in its orbit where a satellite is at the greatest distance from the Earth a final climactic stage; "their achievements stand as a culmination of centuries of development