Machiavelli on Modern Leadership 
Subtitle: Why Machiavelli's Iron Rules Are As Timely and Important Today As Five Centuries Ago
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Truman Talley Books
Published: May 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780312204716
Subjects: Leadership; Political Theory; Current Affairs; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Entrepreneurship; Political Process - Leadership; Political Science / History & Theory; International; 1469-1527; Contributions in political lea; Machiavelli, Niccolo; Machiavelli, Niccolo,; Machiavelli, Niccoláo,; Political leadership
First sentence: If you're going to lead, you've got to fight.
Description: In perhaps the liveliest book on Machiavelli in years, Michael A. Ledeen measures contemporary movers and doers against the timeless standards established by the great Renaissance writer.

Titans of statecraft (Margaret Thatcher, Francois Mitterrand, Pope John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton); business and finance (Bill Gates); Wall Street and investing (Warren Buffett); the military (Colin Powell), and sports (Michael Jordan) are judged by Machiavelli's precepts on leadership and the proper use of power.

The result is a wide-ranging study that illuminates the thoughts of the Renaissance master and the actions of today's truly towering figures as well as the character-challenged pretenders to greatness.