James Comey on Leadership, Trump, and Why He’s No Longer a Republican

Former FBI Director James Comey’s book, A Higher Loyalty, made headlines for its barbed comments about President Donald Trump. But Comey’s real subject is leadership. On the eve of the first anniversary of his being fired by Trump, Comey sat down for a wide-ranging talk on his time as a public servant, what makes a good boss, and how he rates two men he’s worked for—Trump and the latest addition to his legal team, Rudy Giuliani—as leaders.

Bloomberg Businessweek: You’ve had a lot of famous bosses, yet the one you point to as the best is Harry Howell, who ran the grocery store where you worked as a kid. What did he have that presidents and top government officials didn’t?