Description: "The FBI's former head of counterintelligence delivers a field-tested playbook for unlocking individual and organizational excellence, based on the FBI's fiercely protected code of conduct and illustrated through dramatic stories from his own storied career"--
Brief description:
Frank Figliuzzi was the assistant director for counterintelligence at the FBI, where he served 25 years as a special agent and directed all espionage investigations across the government. He is an MSNBC columnist and a national security contributor for NBC News and MSNBC. He is the author of the national bestseller The FBI Way: Inside the Bureau's Code of Excellence.
Review Quotes:
"In my experience in government, the institutions that best preserve and defend our nation's values are made up of men and women who live and die by a code of excellence. I have led the CIA and the Department of Defense and I have come to cherish the institutions that promote and protect our values around the world. Those agencies, like the FBI, persevere sometimes in spite of politicians and pundits because they adhere to that code. Yes they make mistakes and should be held accountable. But as Frank Figliuzzi's The FBI Way makes clear, their survival and success are dependent on the same values that will determine the survival and success of our democracy. It's time we all ask whether we are willing to live by that code." - Leon E. Panetta, Former Secretary of Defense and Director of the CIA
"This is a must read for serious leaders at every level. Frank Figliuzzi served 25 years in the famed FBI rising to the highest levels of leadership. His assignments as chief counter-espionage officer for the Bureau, his street experience as a Special Agent confronting crime, corruption and police misconduct, and his perspective as an FBI policy maker offer us fresh insights into the links between preserving values, pursuing excellence, and defending anything worth keeping." - General Barry R. McCaffrey (U.S. Army Retired)
"The institutions that best preserve and defend our nation's values are made up of men and women who live and die by a code of excellence. ... As Frank Figliuzzi's The FBI Way makes clear, their survival and success are dependent on the same values that will determine the survival and success of our democracy. It's time we all ask whether we are willing to live by that code." - Leon E. Panetta, Former Secretary of Defense and Director of the CIA
"Figliuzzi's war stories of hunting terrorists are spellbinding, but equally important is his playbook for how the FBI's methods for achieving excellence in performance can be duplicated by a wide variety of organizations. This should be required reading in business schools across America." - Andrea Mitchell, Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, NBC News
"For Frank Figliuzzi it's personal; for the rest of us, The FBI Way offers unique insights into how the men and women of the FBI serve with distinction and honor by adhering to a code that allows them to defend what matters most - our democracy." - Michael Steele, Former Chairperson of the Republican National Committee
"Frank Figliuzzi is a patriot. He is an intelligent, straight-forward, and passionate voice for reason, loyalty, and what I have discovered are the simple but essential FBI values. In The FBI Way, through dramatic front-line stories and commentary, he demonstrates how to bring those values into our own lives." - Robert De Niro, Recipient of the Medal of Freedom
"The FBI Way is the book we all need at a time when one of our nation's most essential institutions is under attack from the highest levels of government. Former head of FBI counterintelligence Frank Figliuzzi's war stories of hunting terrorists are spellbinding, but equally important is his playbook for how the FBI's methods for achieving excellence in performance can be duplicated by a wide variety of organizations. This should be required reading in business schools across America, and a tonic for the spirits of the men and women in the FBI, CIA and other agencies--as well as the government scientists fighting the pandemic despite second-guessing from political leaders." - Andrea Mitchell, Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, NBC News
"Figliuzzi has a simple message to impart: The vaunted FBI, for all its recent public controversies, still sets a gold standard for excellence and ethics that should be followed more widely. Figliuzzi, a former assistant director turned NBC News analyst, once oversaw internal FBI investigations of his fellow agents, and he uses cases from his career to offer lessons for other professions. ... Far-reaching, arguing that the world can benefit not from particular FBI skills but from the organization's principles of accuracy and accountability. ... Figliuzzi's book is a timely reminder that our justice system will suffer greatly if the varieties of right and wrong are reduced to a binary choice between public office and prison." - Devlin Barret, Washington Post
"Far-reaching, arguing that the world can benefit not from particular FBI skills but from the organization's principles of accuracy and accountability." - Devlin Barrett, Washington Post
"The FBI Way is a sterling achievement in narrative nonfiction, thrilling without being a thriller, and one of those books people will be referencing for decades to come as a definitive tome for the times in which we live." - Providence Journal
"An achievement in narrative nonfiction, a thrilling non-thriller." - Richmond Times-Dispatch