才要求個人的忠誠。
《紐約時報》暢銷第一名! 亞馬遜書店暢銷第一名!
我信仰法治
也相信全國沒有半個人可以不受法律管轄
我擔心的是……有人覺得自己可以超越法律
2017年5月,時任聯邦調查局長的詹姆斯・柯米(James Comey),不願答應總統要求他停止調查特定人士,也不願回應總統「對個人效忠」的要求,因此在一次對外演講時,在新聞跑馬燈上看見白宮宣布他辭職的消息。
本書可稱是他畢生服務跨國企業、政府行政與司法部門30多年,累積而得的最精華智慧。他見證過迥異的領導風格與各種形式的權力角逐,也參與過司法權與行政權的詭異互動。他用真實案例,極有力地說明了:
・有效領導的核心是什麼
・領導者如何面對自己的侷限
・如何將事實帶入特定的時間、空間,以便做出更健全的判斷
・在首長面前當如何堅持正確的立場
・政壇與商界為何不可仿效黑手黨的「效忠」模式
本書推出後,受到全球的讚譽。紐約時報援引諾貝爾文學獎得主索爾・貝羅的話,稱讚作者是「一個偉大的察覺者」,將組織內部的缺陷勇敢揭露,毫不考量自己的官位前途。公共廣播電台更說本書是同類型著作裡面最重要的一本書。
★你面臨「大家的共識」時,能否單獨做出對的事?
★你要如何告訴上司:我們不該這樣做,因為是違法的?
★你是否願意犧牲誠信與倫理,換得「我們是同國的」之地位?
★你是否知道,世界上有一種更高形式的忠誠,能夠決定整個國家、整個領導階層的興衰?
本書特色
這個世代亟需釐清『忠誠』的概念,重建『領導倫理』的價值,本書回應了時代的需求。作者擁有40年法律、權力運作的實務經驗,更因為堅守法治原則失去了FBI局長官位。對於在政府組織、企業團體內工作的人來說,本書不可或缺。
本文取自遠流出版《向誰效忠:關於一種更高層次的忠誠,以及這種忠誠的考驗》
In his forthcoming book, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes situations of his career in the past two decades of American government, exploring what good, ethical leadership looks like, and how it drives sound decisions. His journey provides an unprecedented entry into the corridors of power, and a remarkable lesson in what makes an effective leader.
Mr. Comey served as director of the FBI from 2013 to 2017, appointed to the post by President Barack Obama. He previously served as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, and the U.S. deputy attorney general in the administration of President George W. Bush. From prosecuting the Mafia and Martha Stewart to helping change the Bush administration’s policies on torture and electronic surveillance, overseeing the Hillary Clinton e-mail investigation as well as ties between the Trump campaign and Russia, Comey has been involved in some of the most consequential cases and policies of recent history.
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On September 4, 2013, James Comey was sworn in as the seventh Director of the FBI.
A Yonkers, New York native, Jim Comey attended the College of William and Mary and the University of Chicago Law School. After law school, Comey returned to New York and joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York as an Assistant U.S. Attorney. There, he took on numerous crimes, most notably Organized Crime in the case of the United States v. John Gambino, et al. Afterwards, Comey became an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia, where he prosecuted the high-profile case that followed the 1996 terrorist attack on the U.S. military’s Khobar Towers in Khobar, Saudi Arabia.
Comey returned to New York after 9/11 to become the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. At the end of 2003, he was tapped to be the Deputy Attorney General at the Department of Justice (DOJ) under then-U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft and moved to the Washington, D.C. area.
Comey left DOJ in 2005 to serve as General Counsel and Senior Vice President at Defense contractor Lockheed Martin. Five years later, he joined Bridgewater Associates, a Connecticut-based investment fund, as its General Counsel. In early 2013, Comey became a Lecturer in Law, a Senior Research Scholar, and Hertog Fellow in National Security Law at Columbia Law School.