JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon has a “little management lesson” for professionals when it comes to conducting meetings: Give everyone your full attention.
“If you have an iPad in front of me and it looks like you’re reading your email or getting notifications, I’ll tell you to close the damn thing,” he said on Oct. 14 at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit, where he also discussed mentoring female leaders. “It’s disrespectful.”
Appropriate meeting etiquette — like preparing beforehand and practicing active listening — signals that you care about the task at hand, and that you’re passionate about your work, said Dimon, 69.
“When I go to a meeting, I’ve done the pre-reads, and you get 100% of my attention,” he said. “None of this nodding off, none of this reading my [email] ... And when I can’t do that, I should move on.”
Dimon, who called for “more hustle” from his employees while implementing a five-day-in-office policy in March, shared more of his meeting do’s and don’ts in an April 2024 letter to shareholders.
