{"id":46060,"date":"2025-11-07T23:16:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T23:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/?p=46060"},"modified":"2025-11-07T23:16:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T23:16:04","slug":"i-dont-bring-my-phone-to-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/?p=46060","title":{"rendered":"I Don&#8217;t Bring My Phone to Meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<h2 class=\"tw:mt-0 tw:mb-1 tw:font-sans tw:text-2xl\">Key Takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"tw:font-semibold tw:font-sans tw:text-base tw:marker:text-blue-600\">\n<li>JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon minimizes cell phone use during work hours, only allowing notifications from his children.<\/li>\n<li>He keeps his phone in his office or tucked away during meetings or appointments.<\/li>\n<li>Dimon has previously said that he considers checking devices during meetings to be \u201cdisrespectful.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jamie Dimon rarely has his cell phone with him throughout the workday. Instead, the JPMorgan Chase CEO, who leads the biggest U.S. bank, has people call his office to reach him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you need me and it\u2019s important, call my office, and they\u2019ll come get me,\u201d Dimon, 69, said in an interview earlier this week with CNN.<\/p>\n<p>Dimon explained that he keeps his phone in his office and doesn\u2019t have it in front of him when he goes to meetings or appointments. He turns his notifications off, except for texts from his three adult daughters, Julia, Laura and Kara.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you send me a text during the day, I probably do not read it,\u201d Dimon said.<\/p>\n<p><b>Related: <\/b><b>Here\u2019s How the CEO of the Biggest Bank in the U.S. Spends His Downtime: \u2018This Gives Me Purpose in Life\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Not having his phone on hand means that Dimon is fully present and \u201c100% focused\u201d during meetings, as opposed to being distracted and \u201cthinking about other things,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon. Photographer: Samuel Corum\/Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dimon has previously emphasized how important it is to be distraction-free during meetings, which means no checking emails or Slack messages on personal devices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNone of this nodding off, none of this reading my mail,\u201d Dimon said at <i>Fortune<\/i>\u2018s Most Powerful Women Summit last month. \u201cIf you have an iPad in front of me and it looks like you\u2019re reading your email or getting notifications, I tell you to close the damn thing. It\u2019s disrespectful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Related: <\/b><b>\u2018This Has to Stop\u2019: JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon Outlines How to Run a Successful Meeting<\/b><\/p>\n<p>IBM CEO Arvind Krishna takes a more flexible approach to using devices during meetings. Krishna told CNN in an interview last week that in meetings of two to 10 people, he expects participants to be engaged, but in large meetings, checking messages is not an issue because those meetings are more \u201ca communication vehicle\u201d where \u201cyou\u2019re just informing people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Dimon said that he always comes prepared to meetings by doing the pre-reads in advance and giving the event 100% of his focus. He stated at the summit that if he couldn\u2019t give his full focus to his work, then it would be time to move on.<\/p>\n<p>At JPMorgan\u2019s Investor Day last year, Dimon noted that his retirement was \u201cless than five years\u201d away. At the 2025 Investor Day in May, Dimon confirmed his plans to retire as CEO within the next several years, though he has yet to publicly name a successor.<\/p>\n<p>JPMorgan is the largest bank in the U.S., with $3.9 trillion in assets. With a market value of over $800 billion, JPMorgan is worth more than its three biggest rivals, Wells Fargo, Citigroup and Bank of America, combined.<\/p>\n<p><b>Related: <\/b><b>JPMorgan Will Fire Junior Bankers Over a Common Practice That CEO Jamie Dimon Calls \u2018Unethical\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h2 class=\"tw:mt-0 tw:mb-1 tw:font-sans tw:text-2xl\">Key Takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"tw:font-semibold tw:font-sans tw:text-base tw:marker:text-blue-600\">\n<li>JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon minimizes cell phone use during work hours, only allowing notifications from his children.<\/li>\n<li>He keeps his phone in his office or tucked away during meetings or appointments.<\/li>\n<li>Dimon has previously said that he considers checking devices during meetings to be \u201cdisrespectful.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jamie Dimon rarely has his cell phone with him throughout the workday. Instead, the JPMorgan Chase CEO, who leads the biggest U.S. bank, has people call his office to reach him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you need me and it\u2019s important, call my office, and they\u2019ll come get me,\u201d Dimon, 69, said in an interview earlier this week with CNN.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tw:justify-center tw:bg-gray-100 tw:flex tw:flex-col tw:sm:flex-row tw:rounded-lg tw:p-6 tw:align-middle tw:sm:text-left tw:text-center tw:mt-4 not-prose\">\n<div class=\"tw:flex tw:flex-col tw:justify-center tw:align-middle tw:mr-0 tw:sm:mr-16\">\n<p class=\"tw:text-sm tw:leading-5 tw:my-0 tw:font-sans\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe rest of this article is locked.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"tw:text-xl tw:text-black tw:font-bold tw:leading-5 tw:my-1 tw:font-sans\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJoin Entrepreneur<span class=\"tw:text-yellow-300\">+<\/span> today for access.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/business-news\/jpmorgan-ceo-jamie-dimon-i-dont-bring-my-phone-to-meetings\/499344\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Takeaways JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon minimizes cell phone use during work hours, only allowing notifications from his children. He keeps his phone in his office or tucked away during meetings or appointments. Dimon has previously said that he considers checking devices during meetings to be \u201cdisrespectful.\u201d Jamie Dimon rarely has his cell phone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[32],"class_list":{"0":"post-46060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-money","8":"tag-featured"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.12 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>I Don&#039;t Bring My Phone to Meetings | iSafeSpend<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Key Takeaways JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon minimizes cell phone use during work hours, only allowing notifications from his children. 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