Don’t think that United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby is going to sit through your slide deck.

“If you want to send a deck, send it to me in advance, and then we’re just going to talk about it, but you’re not going to read slides to me,” Kirby told Semafor’s “CEO Signal” podcast.

Kirby is fiercely protective of his schedule. That’s why he caps meetings at four hours per day, though he said he averages less. It means keeping the meetings he does have quick and conversational.

“That gives me time to think,” he said. “The further you go in your career, certainly by the time you’re the CEO, your job is not to work hard. It’s to think hard.”

In Kirby’s…

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