Overview
Ignore the latest buzz about the kinder, gentler world of new age,team-based management. It's dog-eat-dog out there, and the sooneryou realize it, the better. The New Machiavelli mines Machiavelli'sThe Prince for the timeless rules and stratagems that can helptoday's business rulers survive and prosper in the jungle of greedand treachery that is commerce. Alistair McAlpine enrichesMachiavelli's text with scenarios from modern business, offeringkeen new insight into what motivates people. You'll learn thereasons why:
* Loyalty is not a reliable factor in the workplace
* Great power is held by the "little people" in a business
* It is better to spread power than to centralize it
* You should never believe your own publicity
Fail to read it at your peril.
"For most of my lifetime politicians have been trying to tellbusinessmen how to go about their tasks ... Both groups, however,will enjoy this shrewd commentary on Machiavelli's timelessprinciples of skullduggery."-Margaret Thatcher
"Anyone working in corporate America who doesn't find, read, andmaster Alistair McAlpine's amazing new guidebook to the art ofpolitics in business may soon find themselves self-employed."-Charles Saatchi, Partner, M&C Saatchi
"Written in a style, like Machiavelli's own, at once didactic andcharming... A work which is a standing satirical reproof to thevarious management manuals which promise corporate success."-TimesLiterary Supplement
* Loyalty is not a reliable factor in the workplace
* Great power is held by the "little people" in a business
* It is better to spread power than to centralize it
* You should never believe your own publicity
Fail to read it at your peril.
"For most of my lifetime politicians have been trying to tellbusinessmen how to go about their tasks ... Both groups, however,will enjoy this shrewd commentary on Machiavelli's timelessprinciples of skullduggery."-Margaret Thatcher
"Anyone working in corporate America who doesn't find, read, andmaster Alistair McAlpine's amazing new guidebook to the art ofpolitics in business may soon find themselves self-employed."-Charles Saatchi, Partner, M&C Saatchi
"Written in a style, like Machiavelli's own, at once didactic andcharming... A work which is a standing satirical reproof to thevarious management manuals which promise corporate success."-TimesLiterary Supplement
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