JPMorgan Has 300,000 Employees, but Jamie Dimon Says the Bank Wins by Deploying Small Teams Like Navy SEALs

JPMorgan has 300,000 employees, but Jamie Dimon says the bank wins by deploying small teams like Navy SEALs

Decades-old research backs up the idea that individual effort decreases as group sizes increase.

Jamie Dimon says if you want to win competitive battles, you need small 'Navy SEAL' teams to move faster

Jamie Dimon shared management lessons in his annual shareholder letter.Bloomberg/Getty ImagesJamie Dimon shared management tips in his annual letter to shareholders.The JPMorgan CEO praised small teams, an increasingly popular structure with some startups.He also bashed bureaucracy and said companies must be smart about enterprise platforms.Jamie Dimon might run America's largest bank, but he's focused on assigning the firm's biggest competitive…

Jamie Dimon’s Navy SEAL Playbook: Why JPMorgan’s CEO Wants to Blow Up Corporate Bureaucracy

Jamie Dimon has never been one for subtlety. But even by his standards, the 2025 annual shareholder letter — a document that Wall Street treats with the reverence of a papal encyclical — was unusually blunt about what he sees as the rot inside corporate America: too many people in too many meetings making too few decisions. The JPMorgan Chase chief executive devoted significant space in his letter to a management philosophy built around small, e…