Jamie Dimon's Advice on Business Travel Is a Wake-Up Call to CEOs

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Some interesting quotes from that article. Wouldn't these apply to developers (or other knowledge workers) the same as CEOs? Should developers start demanding international travel in order to improve our ability to connect disparate ideas?

"Although business trips aren't leisure vacations, they offer a break from your daily routine while providing opportunities for new experiences, expanding your thinking, and developing empathy."

"Columbia Business School professor Adam Galinsky found that "foreign experiences increase both cognitive flexibility and depth and integrativeness of thought," thus further improving your ability to connect disparate ideas."

Some (most?) fully remote companies pay for everyone to travel to a company meet-up every so often.

Some multi-office-based companies will pay for people to fly out to a different office to work with colleagues there for a few days.

It won’t be as often as a CEO flies, but it does happen.

Yea, we do have the development team get together every so often. But this article made it sound like CEOs are not doing their job unless they are traveling. At least that's how I took it.

We’re not doing our jobs properly if we’re not building and maintaining interpersonal bonds with our coworkers. That’s why we have RTO mandates.

As for CEOs… I can see this applying more to CEOs who skew towards marketing where the customers are businesses and government rather than individuals.

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