Jamie Dimon Says Too Many Leaders Are ‘Sloppy’ Communicators |
Jamie Dimon, the influential and widely admired CEO of JPMorgan Chase, is known for straight talk on finance and the economy. He applies the same candor to career advice, telling business professionals what they haven’t learned in school but need to know.
On The Master Investor Podcast, Dimon didn’t mince words when asked to give career advice to “ambitious and hungry” professionals who want to occupy senior management and leadership roles.
One leadership skill made the top of Dimon’s list: disciplined communication.
But when it comes to communication, Dimon said, too many leaders are “sloppy.”
For Dimon, communication isn’t a soft skill. It’s a core leadership discipline that leads to faster and smarter decision-making. And that’s why ‘sloppy’ is such a perfect word to describe the state of communication today.
A sloppy communicator is careless, someone who puts in very little thought or effort into organizing their ideas before they express them. Influential leaders do the opposite. They structure........