By Emma Burleigh
Publication Date: 2026-04-19 09:00:00
White-collar workers have fallen into the mundane rhythm of office life: checking an endless stream of emails, sitting through a barrage of meetings, and pushing through mental fatigue by week’s end.
But some CEOs are rewriting norms of the corporate world, leading billion- and trillion-dollar companies on their own terms.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: no one-on-one meetings
Huang, the cofounder and CEO of $4.8 trillion technology giant Nvidia, is trimming the fat from his work routine by prioritizing efficiency over regular check-ins.
The leader doesn’t believe that frequent catch-ups with his 55 direct reports are the best use of his time, given that a continuous stream of meetings would only clog up his work schedule and slow him down.
“I don’t do one-on-one’s with any of them,” Huang said at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research summit in 2024.
His broader goal is to maintain transparency within one of the world’s largest companies.
“They never hear me say something to them that is only for them to know,” the billionaire continued. “There’s not one piece of information that I somehow secretly tell the staff; I don’t tell the rest of the company.”
Huang still has regular catch-ups with his executive team, and if an employee genuinely needs to get in touch with him, he’ll “drop everything for them,” the CEO added. However, limiting time-consuming meetings helps Huang and the company move faster in the…
