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- American Machiavelli: Alexander Hamilton and the Origins of U.S. Foreign Policy
- American Machiavelli: Alexander Hamilton and the Origins of U.S. Foreign Policy. By John Lamberton Harper. (New York and other cities: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 347. $30.00, ISBN 0-521-83485-6.) In this book, John Lamberton Harper juxtaposes the strategic thought and actions of Alexander Hamilton, the ultimate American realist,...
- Research articles 2005-08-01
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- From Poliziano to Machiavelli: Florentine Humanism in the High Renaissance.(Review) (book review)
- From Poliziano to Machiavelli: Florentine Humanism in the High Renaissance. By Peter Godman. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. Pp. xvii, 366. $49.50.) Although the intellectual history of Medicean Florence for the three decades following the death of Lorenzo de Medici (d. 1492) is a...
- Research articles 2000-03-22
- Machiavelli: The First Century: Studies in Enthusiasm, Hostility, and Irrelevance
- Machiavelli: The First Century. Studies in Enthusiasm, Hostility, and Irrelevance. By Sydney Anglo. (Oxford-Warburg Studies) Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2005. x+765 pp. 80 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-19-926776-7. This is a very impressive book. It deals with the response to Machiavelli in Western Europe from the the early sixteenth to...
- Research articles 2007-01-01
- Niccolo Machiavelli: The Prince
- Niccolo Machiavelli: The Prince, trans, and ed. Peter Bonadella, Oxford World's Classics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005). lii + 133 pp. ISBN 0-19-280426-X. 3.99 [pounds sterling]/$5.95. A new translation based on the Italian edition by Giorgio Inglese (1994), reprinted by Rinaldo Rinaldi with minor revision (1998) and widely accepted as...
- Research articles 2005-09-22
- Prince, The
- The Prince Author: Niccolo Machiavelli Publisher: Penguin Classics Machiavelli is usually regarded as synonymous with plotting, scheming and corrupt behaviour. So why do I recommend The Prince as my best business read of 1997? Five hundred years ago, Italy comprised numerous city states, each warring, conspiring...
- Research articles 1998-01-01
- Google: Love, Fear and Hate.(Viacom files case against Google and YouTube)
- By Todd Spangler and Steve Donohue Five centuries ago, Niccolo Machiavelli wondered whether it was better for a king to be loved or feared. How about reviled? If nothing else, the full-bore war that erupted last...
- Research articles 2007-03-19
- Prudence and the Prince
- Carnes Lord, The Modern Prince: What Leaders Need to Know Now (Yale University Press: New Haven, 2003) 275 pp., $26. UPDATES OF Machiavelli's Prince are not unknown. Dick Morris's recent New Prince (Renaissance, 1999) is a low but representative example of the genre, in which a self-advertised tough guy...
- Research articles 2004-06-22
- The air war moves west; Profitable little WestJet plans expansion while money-losing mammoth Air Canada retreats.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- Sixteenth-century Italian political thinker Niccolo Machiavelli once famously wrote that fortune favours the brave, and "it is better to be impetuous than cautious." Clive Beddoe, chief executive officer of the Calgary-based airline WestJet, had better hope Machiavelli was correct. Mr. Beddoe last month...
- Research articles 2002-01-07
- Rendition: the beast and the Man
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Tortured, incarcerated, and exiled, Niccolo Machiavelli swore never again to allow a throne to perish under the hand of aggression for want of action--bold, insidious action if need be. Left with nothing, Machiavelli concluded that a virtuous life, while overtly necessary, may lead to one's demise if...
- Research articles 2008-01-01
- The Quintessential Hero of the Forbes Profile
- The quintessential hero of the Forbes magazine profile doesn't only run an efficient business; he or she plays the flute, paints, explores, performs in a rock band with an ironic middle-aged name like Prostate Pretenders...Mutual fund managers are depicted as cerebral superstars, memorizing baseball statistics, perfecting their piano technique, jetting...
- Blog posts 2007-02-17
- 10 Overrated Business Books (and What to Read Instead)
- Don't believe the hype. These "classic" books attract all the attention, but for real business wisdom, read our preferred suggestions instead. Management Consulting...
- Articles 2007-08-22
- Race Effects on the Employee Assessing Political Leadership
- Machiavellianism has commonly been defined as the need to develop and defend one's power and success. Scholars have adopted the perspective of Machiavelli to examine political dynamics in organizations. The Mach IV has been the primary measure of Machiavellianism as a distinct personality construct. The purpose of this paper is...
- White papers
- Learning How to Lead
- Learning How to LeadFencingFor reasons I don't fully comprehend, my public high school had a fencing team. And for reasons I comprehend all too well I was a geeky teenager and boys like swords, I ended up on that team.In the days before all-electronic scoring, fencing bouts were referreed by...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-24
- Did Meg Whitman Fail?
- Did Meg Whitman Fail?Lack of customer service and knowledge of staffLast year I canceled my Ebay account because of repeated attempts to correct a problem with Ebay customer service. It started out that one of the vendors on the Ebay site took a payment from me, then rejected it...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-24
- Where the Chatter is on BNET
- Former CEO Magazine editor, William Holstein, has shaken things up with his post on H1-B visas, with people coming down vehemently on all sides of the issue. What do you think? Are H1-B visas good for America? Do they help keep jobs from going overseas? Or do they solely serve...
- Blog posts 2008-03-17
- The Change Monster - The Change Monster: The Human Forces That Fuel or Foil Corporate Transformation and Change - Review
- In The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli wrote, "There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than to initiate a new order of things. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old system,...
- Research articles 2001-10-01
- Bill Gates - Chmn, CEO of Microsoft Corp - The Power Players
- The Nation's Richest Man. The Ultimate Greek. Machiavelli in Dockers. Microsoft's Bill Gates has been called all of that, with varying degrees of accuracy, and much more. At 40, Gates is chairman of what is arguably the most successful U.S. company ever. In 20 years, he has moved Microsoft from...
- Research articles 1995-12-04
- Gianni Machiavelli. (management shake-up at Fiat)
- IT WAS dressed up as an everyday corporate dispute over strategy. Mr Vittorio Ghidella resigned as chief executive of Fiat's car division on November 25th, after policy differences". Mr Cesare Romiti, the Fiat group's managing director and a fi IT WAS dressed up as an...
- Research articles 1988-12-03
- Change Monster, The
- In The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli wrote, "There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than to initiate a new order of things. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old system,...
- Research articles 2001-10-01
- Letters.
- SMILE WHEN YOU SAY THAT Boston * I do hope that Eric Alterman, after erroneously accusing George Will of plagiarism ["Full-Court Press," July 16], has the good sense to apologize publicly to Will, now that it's been revealed that...
- Research articles 2001-08-06
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