Jamie Dimon is one of the most, if not the most successful CEO in America. He lead JP Morgan throughout the financial crisis, and helped it emerged as one of the most successful large financial institutions in the country.
Under Dimon’s leadership with the acquisitions on his watch, JPMorganChase has now become the leading U.S. bank in domestic assets under management, market capitalization value, and publicly traded stock value. JPMorganChase is also the #1 credit card provider in the United States.
In 2009, Mr. Dimon was considered one of “The TopGun CEOs” by Brendan Wood International, an advisory agency. To read more about Dimon’s life check out The House of Dimon: How JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon Rose to the Top of the Financial World.
Dimon weighed in on his own reading list recently. When JPMorgan had a town hall for summer interns in June 2010, quite a few people asked Jamie Dimon (CEO) for a reading list. He e-mailed them back the following list of his favorite books “which includes a variety of business and history books.”
Business
- The World Is Flat
- Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors
- Security Analysis
- The Intelligent Investor
- Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
- Jack: Straight from the Gut
- Sam Walton: Made In America
- Double Your Profits: In Six Months or Less
- Built from Scratch: How a Couple of Regular Guys Grew The Home Depot from Nothing to $30 Billion
- Only the Paranoid Survive
- Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
Historical Biographies
- Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
- Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America
- Undaunted Courage : Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West
- Eisenhower Soldier and President
- The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
- Washington: The Indispensable Man
- Abraham Lincoln
- Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
- The Life of Thomas Jefferson
- Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
History Other
- A Short History of Nearly Everything
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
- Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
- A History of Knowledge: Past, Present, and Future
- The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
- The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor
