Has run JPMorgan Chase as CEO since 2005 and chairman since 2006; earlier CFO and president of Commercial Credit under his mentor Sandy Weill.
2 biographies about them · 29 books they recommend
Jamie Dimon's career and how JPMorgan Chase came through the 2008 crisis.
Source: Jamie Dimon's reading list for JPMorgan interns
Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Running General Electric from 1981 to 2001, as told on retiring.
Source: Jamie Dimon's reading list for JPMorgan interns
Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Warren Buffett
Source: Jamie Dimon's reading list for JPMorgan interns
Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
A general's own account of his career, from West Point cadet to head of Union armies.
Dell's founder on the buyout, the Icahn fight and VMware
Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Bill Gates, Eric Schmidt and 5 others
How Walmart grew from one Arkansas store by cutting costs and prices.
Source: Jamie Dimon's reading list for JPMorgan interns
Also recommended by: David Cancel, Mohnish Pabrai, Iman Gadzhi and 2 others
How Lincoln brought his three rivals for the 1860 nomination into his cabinet.
Source: Jamie Dimon's reading list for JPMorgan interns
Also recommended by: Bill Gates, Mohnish Pabrai and 1 other
A printer's rise in colonial America and his chart for practising thirteen virtues.
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Also recommended by: Charlie Munger, Mohnish Pabrai, Nat Eliason and 3 others
Theodore Roosevelt's life from his birth in 1858 to the presidency in 1901.
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Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Ryan Holiday, Sophie Bakalar
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Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
What eighteen long-lived companies did differently from close rivals in their fields.
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Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Drew Houston, Ev Williams and 2 others
Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors
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Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Bill Gurley
Cost discipline handbook widely used by buyout and turnaround operators
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Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Execution is a discipline the CEO must lead, linking people, strategy and operations.
Source: Jamie Dimon's reading list for JPMorgan interns
Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
How to spot a strategic inflection point, when a tenfold force changes a business.
Source: Jamie Dimon's reading list for JPMorgan interns
Also recommended by: Charlie Munger, Mohnish Pabrai and 10 others
Survey of what humans have known, era by era
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Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Diamond's central question — why did some civilizations come to dominate others over 10,000 years? — is precisely the kind of question that requires long-term thinking to even ask. The answer, rooted in geography and biology rather than culture or intelligence, is a model for how to reason about slow causes and fast effects.
Source: Jamie Dimon's reading list for JPMorgan interns
Also recommended by: Charlie Munger, Christopher Bloomstran and 13 others
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Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Source: Jamie Dimon's reading list for JPMorgan interns
Also recommended by: Jim Collins, Mohnish Pabrai
Why some nations grew rich over 500 years, with culture as the deciding factor.
Source: Jamie Dimon's reading list for JPMorgan interns
Also recommended by: Charlie Munger, Mohnish Pabrai, Li Lu
Ten forces around 2000 that let anyone, anywhere compete in the global economy.
Source: Jamie Dimon's reading list for JPMorgan interns
Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Bill Gates, John Doerr and 1 other
How to read financial statements sceptically and value bonds and stocks.
Source: Jamie Dimon's reading list for JPMorgan interns
Also recommended by: Christopher Bloomstran, Howard Marks and 10 others
Treat stocks as parts of businesses and buy only with a margin of safety.
Source: Jamie Dimon's reading list for JPMorgan interns
Also recommended by: Benjamin Graham, Christopher Bloomstran and 26 others
How scientists came to know what they know, from cosmology and geology to biology.
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Also recommended by: Balaji S. Srinivasan, Jim Collins and 4 others
The founding of the Santa Fe Institute and the people who built complexity science.
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Also recommended by: Bill Gurley, Michael Mauboussin and 1 other
How two fired executives built Home Depot into a national chain.
Source: Jamie Dimon's reading list for JPMorgan interns
Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, David Cancel, Frank Blake
Also recommended by: Balaji S. Srinivasan, David Friedberg and 1 other
After the Cold War, conflict will follow cultural and religious fault lines.
Source: Jamie Dimon's reading list for JPMorgan interns
Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Patrick Collison and 2 others
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