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Justin Nelson on Leadership as Legacy at JP Morgan

Justin Nelson does not measure his leadership at JP Morgan by how essential he remains to daily operations. The Managing Director, who heads the Asset Management and Financial Principals Coverage Team at JP Morgan Private Bank in Connecticut, has spent nearly thirty years developing a philosophy centered on making his own role increasingly unnecessary.Justin Nelson leads a twenty person team built around gradual succession. Junior advisors...

Justin Nelson Challenges JP Morgan’s Quarterly Mindset

Finance often runs on short cycles, with quarterly results shaping decisions across entire firms. Justin Nelson, a Managing Director at JP Morgan who leads the Asset Management and Financial Principals Coverage Team at JP Morgan Private Bank in Connecticut, has spent nearly three decades pushing back against that framework, at least when it comes to measuring his own success.Justin Nelson does not dismiss the importance of performance metrics....

How Author Greg Soros Builds Lessons Kids Don’t Notice

Greg Soros, an author who has written for young readers for more than a decade, is skeptical of children's books that announce their lessons too loudly. The strongest stories, he says, never feel like instruction. Children absorb social and emotional lessons through narrative, not through a moral spelled out at the end of a chapter, and Greg Soros treats that distinction as central to his craft. Greg Soros argues that children’s literature...