JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon warns a ‘great’ meeting is usually a bad one—here’s how he ends them instead |
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon warns a ‘great’ meeting is usually a bad one—here’s how he ends them instead
In today’s AI-fueled race for efficiency, companies are under pressure to move faster—and prove they can outperform their competitors. But according to JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, one of the biggest obstacles to success remains surprisingly low-tech: meetings.
“When you have a meeting, people often don’t know who’s running it—that’s a mistake,” Dimon said at Norges Bank Investment Management’s conference in Oslo this week.
And even when leadership is clearly defined, most meetings fail at the moment that matters most: the ending.
“When you have a meeting and someone ends the meeting by saying ‘That was a great meeting, we’ll pick it up again next week,’ It’s usually a bad meeting,” Dimon said. “The meeting should end with, Okay David, you’re going to do X—talk to these people.”
For Dimon, a meeting’s success isn’t measured by how it feels—it’s measured by whether it produces clear ownership and concrete next steps.
It comes at a time when there’s widespread disdain for meetings. A........