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The founder of a $1 billion company shares the advice from JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon that shaped his career
Jim McCann could talk for hours about his company, 1-800-Flowers. He started with a single flower shop in 1976 and took it to a business with a market capitalization of around $600 million, with $1.2 billion in sales last year. But he learned back in the 1990s, when 1-800-Flowers was taking off, that he needs to keep his monologues short if he's going to motivate his employees. It's a lesson he learned from his friend and fellow Queens native, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon. "I remember one time he said to me, 'Jim, you spend way too much time evangelizing,'" McCann told Business Insider. McCann asked Dimon what he ... (full story)