Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Read during my lunch hour

A timely excerpt from Chapter 20 of Machiavelli's The Prince:

When you disarm your subjects, however, you offend them by showing that, either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and either conclusion will induce them to hate you. Moreover, since it is impossible for you to remain unarmed, you would have to resort to mercenaries, whose limitations have already been discussed.

Funny, or amazing? How Machiavellian tenets can be applied to HR.

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