title: The House of Dimon: How JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Rose to the Top of the Financial World
author:  Patricia Crisafulli 
description: "It is easy to read and brings together events in the financial markets over the past 40 years that are helpful to review and reflect upon" (<i>Seeking Alpha</i>)
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  For the most wonderful gift any man can receive: a daughter. Thank you,
  Marguerite, for being mine.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  NEW YORK, MARCH 2013
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  INTRODUCTION:
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  THE MCKINSEY MYSTIQUE
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Two minutes out of business school, Jamie Dimon decided to become a
  consultant. The experience left him unimpressed, and he has looked down on it
  since. “It’s substitute management,” he told me when I was deep into writing
  his biography. “A Good Housekeeping seal of approval. It’s political, so if
  you make a decision, you can say, ‘It’s not my fault, it’s their fault.’ . . .
  I think consultants can become a disease for corporations.” Dimon, who went on
  to become the chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase and was hailed as an Olympian
  financier for steering the bank above Wall Street’s 2008 humbling—only to be
  somewhat humbled himself four years later when its