Jamie Dimon's Career Advice

[Music] are there a couple pieces of advice you would give to someone who's just maybe starting their career and looking at this fast changing business environment asking how they're gonna yeah maintain their work hard there's no such thing as successful at hard work so some people have this quick get-rich-quick notion I've never seen it I mean maybe it's not a casino maybe it's happened but it's not it's not the normal way second you spend your life learning you know I read four or five newspapers every morning I read tons of stuff I read everything that people send me you're gonna learn when you go out in the road learn learn learn you learn from clients learn from competitors you learn when we meet with small business you're always learning and that could be a small thing that someone said why do you do this he said my god we should do that differently to a very large thing even innovation sometimes it's not an AHA it's a lot a lot of little things he added on top each other the iPhone was 3G you know the glass the semiconductors the batteries wasn't one thing that created an iPhone so learn learn learn treat people the way you want to be treated you know like like have respect for people and be willing to change your job a little bit don't worry about your income level you know people my god I'll take that job I love the people puts less money you know what sometimes it's the absolute right thing to do so be a little bit of flexible and the job you take and try you know in your in your lifetime you should be prepared to do a bunch of different things we tell people it's your job to take care of your mind your body your spirit your soul your friends your family and you need to do that at any level because if you don't you know you probably won't be a particularly productive worker we can help but we can't do it for you we can provide opportunities we can't do it for you second you know what does that mean you want people to basically say I'm gonna leave I got it five yes you guys you gotta go take care of your kids baseball game you don't feel well you you know you need a spiritual getaway you you should do those things and it could be done most of the people might life who are always frenzied they can't get it done I would some it's you it's not the company so a lot of people doing that except the exact same job and they're always at peace and at ease and they have their family time you know if you're if you're a male or we just had a bunch of babies you know maybe can't play golf every day in the weekends maybe you got to just cut back in other things and focus on that you can't give kids for example quality time only you don't get the quality without quantity you know and I tell people so you have to arrange your life so it works for you in a way that you're taking care of your health like when I go travel overseas I schedule exercise time management is get it done follow-up discipline planning and now's this fax back fax and now just get the right people in the room you know kill the bureaucracy all these various things they get done which if you don't you won't be particularly good but the the real keys to leadership aren't just doing that or make yourself but having people who want to work at the place so you might want to work for me if you trust me if you know what I care about is the client the country something different if the person's selfish you know blames you and takes the credit you're not gonna want to work there so to me humility openness fairness being authentic that's what creates leadership not that the smartest person in the room or the hardest-working person in the room and you can you know if you made a list of good CEOs it's not their charisma it's not always their brain power but you won't be a good seal without that because people want to work there and so to me that is a whole different way of making sure you manage it you

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Length: 3min 30sec (210 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 12 2018