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Who said that the art of writing messages has died? The annual errors of the shareholders from Jimmy Damon, CEO and President of JPMorgan, ran to 57 pages in addition to footnotes.

It was described by the Financial Times Lex as a “Masterclass in Management” For US President Donald Trump, Damon’s speech saved some of her sharp criticism, not politicians, but they are bad in commercial communication and management.

“Speak as you speak – get rid of terms,” ​​Damon wrote in The Track, which was published this month and also renewed on definitions, global economic expectations, and doing more with less. “Avoid Pablum Management.”

The greatest anger of Damon was aimed at meetings. “Kill them,” wrote. If that happens, make sure they have a starting time and end, and a clear goal. Organize it until the concerned participants only attend. “Sometimes we believe that we are kind to inviting people to a meeting that should not be there.”

The invitations of meetings are generally received warmly. Two years ago, Shopify, e -commerce company, received widespread attention to Canceling Wednesday meetings And those who have more than two people.

The bustle of these gatherings has increased only after the epidemic. “This meeting could have been an e -mail,” Clarion’s invitation to the workers of white collars whose calendars were groaning under the weight of the reservation colleagues are frankly to meet the enlargement.

According to the research conducted by Microsoft between 2020 and 2023, the number of team meetings has doubled three times. People complained of ineffective virtual meetings with 55 percent, saying that the next steps at the end of the meeting are unclear and 56 percent that it was difficult to summarize what happened.

The result was that the employees worked more days to focus actually on completing their jobs in addition to attending these time consuming meetings.

The crawl of the malicious meeting means that Damon is far from the only one Business leader To suppress or suggest ways to improve the exchange of ideas for colleagues. When I spoke to companies trying to do four weeks, the first thing to go was the meetings.

Perhaps unfortunately, among the other Master of Tech who see the answer to swelling – in an amazing way – more technical.

OTER, copy service, provides the agent of Amnesty International’s meeting, verbally answering questions in meetings, among other things. Eric Yuan, founder and CEO of Zoom, expects, in the future when employees can go to the beach and send a digital twin to a meeting, perhaps even to interact with other gods. “I can send my digital version – you can send your digital version,” he said to Drilling.

The current use of Amnesty International to register and produce summaries of meeting has already mixed results. It may save time but does not pick up the differences in conversations. This is hardly the worst crime. I recently heard about one of the marketing team, which was too late that their conversation had continued to register after the customer left the call online. He was less than happy to receive a copy that narrates his various mistakes.

Dimon focuses on a different focus: those present must completely get rid of their devices. “I see people at meetings all the time when they get personal notifications and texts, or who read emails. This must stop. It’s not respected. It is waste time.”

Some of this bad behavior stems from the dark epidemic times. Elsewhere, workers can click on their joy points, but by sending texts to each other on what is the fool of the other person, “Dienon said frankly in a leaked previous address. It is also related to workers who deal with irreplaceable quantities of messages via countless platforms, from email to recession to WhatsApp.

But Damon’s intervention is welcoming. The past few weeks have seen a sharp rise in worrying talks about children’s use of smartphones, especially follow -up. TeenagerNETFLIX drama for a 13 -year -old boy washed by Manosphere. It is time for someone’s time for adults to rely on devices.

I also think that the problem of lack of interest is not only about WhatsApp, but boring content and participants in the meetings themselves.

Beth Sherman, a communications advisor caused by the display of meetings (!) Later this year, told me: “If people in your meeting or in your audience look at their phones, at best, they are only not leaking. The best vision of leaders focus on treating the disease, rather than symptoms.”

Emma.jacobs@ft.com