Chase’s Dimon to Students: You Can ‘Hold Me Accountable’

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May 16, 2010 by Staff

Despite controversy over his selection as commencement speaker, JPMorgan Chase Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon today drew a mostly positive response from Syracuse University students as he urged them to “have the fortitude to do the right thing, not the easy thing.”

As the head of a financial giant, Dimon’s appearance to the students represented the banking industry, a key player in the financial crisis that has left a weak economy to greet this year’s graduating class.

Dimon spoke of the controversy and said he contacted one of the students who protested his selection – and was impressed.

“I heard her concerns about me, the nation’s banking system and about capitalism itself,” Dimon told the crowd of about 17,000 students, relatives and guests. “Some I thought were legitimate, others I disagreed with. But whether I agree with her or not, I say ‘good for her;’ I’m proud of her for speaking up.

“In fact, it is completely appropriate to hold me accountable for those things I am responsible for.”

Except for a few boos in the beginning, Dimon’s speech drew much applause with only a few spurts of protest, including about a dozen students who removed their graduation robes.

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[DJ13]

1. Too bad the kids didnt say something about a guillotine

[RandomThoughts]

2. What has been the effects on society, the fruits, of his actions.

There is an interesting comment on the idea of looking at people for their effects on society. That view, to be evaluated, also requires empathy circle knowledge.

If a person does not care about some group, or only cares about a small group, or themselves, then they could make the evaluation of the effect of their actions and if they are good or bad based on a smaller empathy circle.

So if 100 people are in a room, and a person only cares about 5 of them, and that few prospers, they can think the effect of their actions is good.

Many other people will also see how the 95 are treated, and think the actions are bad.


So to know if someone is doing good, it is more then just the view of effects, but also how they think and care about people, and the size of their empathy circles.

That is how a person with a small empathy circle can feel that they are doing good, while people with larger empathy circles think they are not.


So the question is, will accountability come from the view of dignity for all people, or dignity for a few people. That really is how a person can think they do good, when they may be evaluated differently.

Empathy circles and how many people are important determine much of how a person views the correctness of their actions.

I would be curious to know from his heart and mind, the size of his empathy circles, and how his actions have effected people in different rings of those circles.

The article and source of the article about the speech is interesting.



Also note that I do not follow Highlander doctrine's bad side ideas.