I personally know someone was a director that closed a successful new acquisition in Modesto and moved it to Seattle, because he hated Modesto and didn’t want to travel to it.
Now that acquisition failed.
I doubt Mr Dimon spends 2 out of 5 days in the office anyway.
Perhaps Churchill and the crown could have done things differently to keep the Empire. Perhaps not. Accepting a peace offer from Hitler would have delayed it a bit, but still would result in a continental power being able to take on the UK. That was a direct violation of their long standing policy.
Japan’s propaganda was making holding on to India an issue, and this was before the violence that lead to the split. At best they could have done what France did, and have a soft empire. But there were forces spinning it off fast enough it was not going to last
Unlike most, I have read Churchill’s account of WWII.
There was a point where Italy and Japan would have not supported Germany, and Italy might have joined the allies. Churchill was so focused on Hitler he missed it.
Churchill was a complicated man.
I also listened to that interview. While I think he embellished things a bit to get some publicity, we are getting to the point where some of the hagiography can be removed.
The Allies made a lot of mistakes and had issues. The Axis were evil, and the former does not excuse the latter.