"But whatever you do, don't look at your device in front of him. "None of this nodding off," said Dimon, who spoke with Fortune Editor-in-Chief Alyson Shontell in Washington, D.C. for a wide-ranging one-on-one interview at the annual Most Powerful Women summit. "If you have an iPad in front of me and it looks like you're reading your email and your notifications, I'll tell you to close the damn thing," said Dimon. "It's disrespectful.""
""I should move on," he said. "You can't retire in place." Sports legends like pro football Hall of Fame quarterback Tom Brady don't complain that they've been playing the sport for a long time and that they're tired and need a break to sit out practice or a game, continued Dimon. Instead, they give it their all, every practice and every game. The same is true of being CEO, he said. "Every day, every meeting," Dimon gives everything he has, he said."
Jamie Dimon expects meeting attendees to complete pre-reading and to give 100% attention during meetings. Devices that appear to show email or notifications must be closed because they are disrespectful. Dimon believes that if he cannot give full attention he should step aside and not "retire in place." He compares CEO commitment to elite athletes who give everything in every practice and game. Dimon is 69 and led JPMorgan through the 2008 Financial Crisis, maintaining a 19-year tenure compared with a 9.1-year S&P 500 CEO average, fueling ongoing retirement and succession speculation.
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