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Jamie Dimon tells the best teams work like Navy SEALs, not sprawling ‘flat’ corporations
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Corporate America has entered the era of the megamanager.
Key facts
- But there’s one titan of industry bucking that trend: JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon
- In championing smaller teams, Dimon is at odds with the ultra-flat management model being adopted by firms like Meta, where CEO Mark Zuckerberg is expecting workers to do more with less in the AI era
- Smaller teams, with shorter “to-do” lists, are incentivized to give their full focus to any given task, he explained: “You need a team 100% dedicated to the mission—and everyone else supports them
- Corporate America has entered the era of the megamanager
Summary
But there’s one titan of industry bucking that trend: JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon. There’s some basis for the comparison with special forces operations: The SEALs are known to work in squads of eight or fewer, for example. In a team with too many members, accountability is spread too thin, he wrote: “often when a management team wants to accomplish something new … everyone on the team says, ‘We’ll get it done,’ meaning they will add it to the long list of tasks already on their plate. Smaller teams, with shorter “to-do” lists, are incentivized to give their full focus to any given task, he explained: “You need a team 100% dedicated to the mission—and everyone else supports them.” In championing smaller teams, Dimon is at odds with the ultra-flat management model being adopted by firms like Meta, where CEO Mark Zuckerberg is expecting workers to do more with less in the AI era.