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LONG BEFORE THE MULTI- NATIONALS, PROXY FIGHTS, TAKE- OVERS, MANAGEMENT THEORY, CORPORATE PROMOTIONS AND FIRINGS, AND EVERY OTHER ASPECT OF MODERN BUSINESS LIFE,Niccolรฒ Machiavelli was investigating how men seize power, hold it against usurpers, use it to their profit, or lose it through their errors. His books, The Prince and The Discourses, have come down to us as the clearest, most practical advice on how to achieve success in a competitive world-a world that every businessman will recognize as his own. Now his insights into the psychology of power are applied directly to the day-to-day problems and long- range challenges of modern management. This brilliant book sets out to prove that Niccolรฒ Machiavelli's reputation of "cunning, duplicity, and bad faith" is not entirely war ranted, that many of his principles of leadership are indeed valid today, and that his observations on human nature and power are uniquely relevant to the basic tactical problems confronting the modern manager.ISBN:9780452007314
