What would Machiavelli do?
Subtitle: the ends justify the meanness
By: Stanley Bing
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: HarperBusiness
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9780066620114
Subjects: Aptitude pour la direction; Management; Attitudes; Gestion; Chefs d'entreprise; Executive ability; Executives
Description: Presents "a way of seeing other people from 50,000 feet--as teeny-tiny ants you can squish. A simple, detailed plan for those with the courage to leave kindness and decency behind, to seize the future by the throat and make it cough up money, power and superior office space."--Jacket.
Table of contents: title: What Would Machiavelli Do? --; title: He would exploit himself only slightly less than he exploits others --; title: He would be unpredictable, and thus gain the advantage --; title: He would be in love with his destiny --; title: He would be, for the most part, a paranoid freak --; title: He would always be at war --; title: He would cultivate a few well-loved enemies --; title: He would have a couple of good friends, too --; title: He would acquire his neighbor --; title: He would think BIG --; title: He would move forward like a great shark, eating as he goes --; title: He would kill people, but only if he could feel good about himself afterward --; title: He would fire his own mother, if necessary --; title: He would make a virtue out of his obnoxiousness --; title: He would be way upbeat! --; title: He would be satisfied with nobody but himself --; title: He would treat himself right --; title: She would view her gender as both a liability and an asset --; title: He would use what he's got --; title: He would embrace his own madness --; title: He would do what he feels like doing, you idiot --; title: He would say what he felt like saying --; title: He would delegate all the crummy tasks, except the ones he enjoys --; title: He wouldn't exactly seek the company of ass-kissers and bimbos, but he wouldn't reject them out of hand, either --; title: He would respond poorly to criticism --; title: He would carry a grudge until the extinction of the cockroach --; title: He would lie when it was necessary --; title: He would be proud of his cruelty and see it as strength --; title: He would kick ass and take names --; title: He would permanently cripple those who disappoint him --; title: He would torture people until they were only too happy to destroy themselves.