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Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; New edition edition (30 Nov 1999)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0471350958
ISBN-13: 978-0471350958
Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15 x 2 cm

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Margaret Thatcher
"For most of my lifetime politicians have been trying to tell businessmen how to go about their tasks ... Both groups, however, will enjoy this shrewd commentary on Machiavelli's timeless principles of skullduggery."

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"Anyone working in corporate America who doesn't find, read, and master Alistair McAlpine's amazing new guidebook to the art of politics in business may soon find themselves self-employed."

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3.0 out of 5 stars A lively and interesting read from an unlikely source., 29 Dec 1998

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This review is from: The Machiavelli: The Art of Politics in Business (Hardcover)

Take a classic text on the art of politics, add a dash of recent political experience (the negative kind) and apply the whole lesson to modern business issues - voila! Lord McAlpine explains it all to you. And he doesn't do a bad job of it, ( I write as a former CEO of a NYSE listed company.)

This book is not to be purchased as a text for the purpose of finding presciptive formulas to be applied to the daily problems facing the serious manager. The Harvard Business review purports to do a better job in that direction.

Rather, find a comfortable chair, light the fire, pour a glass of sherry and enter the world of Lord McAlpine - in this case a curious and unique combination of British politics, international celebrities, worldwide business interests and family inheritances.

In his book McAlpine finds great management insights in the works of Niccolo Machiavelli for application to modern business and draws all kinds of parallels to emphasize the similiarities. To this reader, not all the comparisons fit, but the author is an engaging writer and there is enough real life business and political experience in McAlpine's distinguished career to insure some sensible commentary with a bit of wit and humor. In a sense one learns more about McAlpine than Machiavelli. As luck would have it, he is an interesting fellow, too.

At this price buy one for yourself and a colleague and enjoy a great inside joke together. Cheers!

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5.0 out of 5 stars A must read for all those in B-School, or in business, 17 Oct 1998

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McAlpine offers a keen insight into Machiavelli's work "The Prince" as a basis for a survival strategy in business. McAlpine implores all who are in business that the most important part of any strategy is to first learn who your enemies are and who are not. He also contends that the second part of a good strategy is to learn how a business fails so that one can know how to make a business work. This work offers to a reader with little spare time the opportunity to gain a tremendous volume of knowledge in a shot period of time. Little time is dedicated to theory or case study. Rather, McAlpine spends much of the book imparting a vast bank of practical information.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Not worth reading, 7 Jun 1999

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I found this book to be wholly absent of any kind of meaningful discussion of political behavior in the commercial environment. It provides a very cursory, feeble projection and application of Machiavelli's principles in a business context. A disappointing job at what could have been a powerful, interesting and timely discussion.

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