The fascination over The Prince has for hundreds of years been a widely read book and the author of; What Would Machiavelli Do? The Ends Justify the Meanness; Stanley Bings, sheds some light on the subject using comical comments to show it correlation to business and indeed there are many interesting correlations. Business in many ways is like war and the internal ladder climbing of Primate Politics in modern day corporations somewhat resembles The Prince. The Satire used in the book is funny and serious; Bing did an awesome on this book. The book is very much worth reading and very interesting as well. Some people may not be able to handle what is in the book but the way I see it is that if someone cannot handle what is written in the book then they are not reality based or somewhat of a wimp. The reality of the situation is relevant to those who study the game of business and commerce in the present period. For those who deny these Machiavellian tendencies in business well competitors or competitor driven government regulators or lawsuits would instantly crush them in my market place. You play hard and you play to win in business and of course you must go for it. You see in business really there is no free lunch and you must search out and eventually seize opportunity, crush the competition and win. Each battle in business is determined by the smart, meanest, toughest and most ruthless. Cooperation is also smart at times as any good Prince knows and as Bing points out as he correlates Business to Machiavellian Principles. Consider all this in 2006. |
