in 2013, he sent reading recommendations to his staff, including “Letter From Birmingham Jail” by the Rev.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “Lean In” by Sheryl Sandberg and “The Righteous Mind” by a professor at New York University’s business school, Jonathan Haidt.
Stumbling on that last book, a 2012 best seller, felt, Mr. Comey recalled, as if he were consulting a how-to guide on leading a stuck-in-its-ways Washington bureau.
The book’s core lesson is simple: Humans make moral decisions based on emotional intuition, not just reason.
And his work has drawn acolytes who would like to think so, too — including some of the very people in big tech whose work Mr. Haidt seems to hold responsible for the rising generation’s social ills.
Persons:
James Comey, Martin Luther King Jr, “, Sheryl Sandberg, Jonathan Haidt, Comey, you’re, Haidt
Locations:
Birmingham, New York, Washington