Welcome to How Leaders Lead, where every week you get to listen in while I interview some of the very best leaders in the world.

I break down the key learning so that by the end of the episode, you'll have something simple you can apply as you develop into a better leader.

That's what this podcast is all about.

Today's guest is Bill Harrison, the former chairman and CEO of J.P. Morgan Chase. Have you ever worked for somebody who's taken you under

their wing and believed in you enough to pave the way for you to take his or her job?

Let me tell you, throughout my career, I've had the great fortune of this happening

to me multiple times. I've worked for leaders who wanted me to succeed, wanted me to develop the

capability to move to that next level. But here's the sad thing. I don't think this is all too

common of a story. Too many leaders have a,

you work for me mentality, and the last thing they want is for you to take their job. So they

actually hold you back. So what do we do about this? Well, we can learn to be the kind of leader who can identify top talent and do whatever is required

to help them succeed in their careers so that they're prepared to take your job or another

job just like it.

On this week's episode, you're going to learn how to do this from one of the all-time

greats.

Bill Harrison is an example we can all follow in how he prepared the next

leader of J.P. Morgan Chase, setting the stage for Jamie Diamond to take over. So let's not wait

any longer. Here's my conversation with my good friend and soon to be yours, Bill Harrison.

You know, I want to get into how you lead and how you were the leading architect of what is now

the largest and arguably the best financial institution in the world, J.P. Morgan Chase.

But first, I really want to understand how you got to where you are. And I understand

you came up in a family of three generations of bankers. I did come up in sort of a family of bankers,

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