​Machiavelli’s Sage Advice To Transformational Leaders – Tyler Durden

Machiavelli’s Sage Advice To Transformational Leaders Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Machiavellian has negative connotations–cynically unscrupulous scheming to gain or maintain power–but this misses the mark of Machiavelli the man who sought a livelihood in the cutthroat political street fighting of Italy’s city-states circa the late 1400s and early 1500s. As he made clear in other writings, Machiavelli favored democracy over competing political arrangements, and he wrote The Prince (the entire book in PDF format) as a sort of extended resume seeking to bolster his chances for employment. First and foremost, Machiavelli explores the psychology of power and leadership. For leaders who…  — Continue at ZeroHedge News : Read More