The New Machiavelli: The Art
of Politics in Business
Ignore the latest buzz about
the kinder, gentler world of new age, team-based management. It's dog-eat-dog out there,
and the sooner you realize it, the better. The New Machiavelli mines Machiavelli's The
Prince for the timeless rules and stratagems that can help today's business rulers
survive and prosper in the jungle of greed and treachery that is commerce. Alistair
McAlpine enriches Machiavelli's text with scenarios from modern business, offering keen
new insight into what motivates people. You'll learn the reasons 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 tell businessmen how to go about their tasks ...
Both groups, however, will enjoy this shrewd commentary on Machiavelli's timeless
principles of skullduggery." Margaret Thatcher
"Anyone working in
corporate America who doesn't find, read, and master Alistair McAlpine's amazing new
guidebook to the art of politics 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 and charming... A work which is a standing
satirical reproof to the various management manuals which promise corporate success."Times
Literary Supplement
240 pages