Management and Machiavelli: Discovering a New Science of Management in the Timeless Principles of Statecraft - Softcover

Jay, P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0136026087 ISBN 13: 9780136026082

Publisher: Prentice-Hall, 1997

Synopsis

Anthony Jay shows you how the new science of management is a continuation of the old art of government. By looking at your own corporate organization in a political/historical context, you can fully understand its power structure - what Machiavelli wrote about statecraft in the sixteenth century holds true for business and management in the late twentieth century. Applying Machiavellian precepts to such modern corporations as General Motors, Apple Computer, and Microsoft, Jay discovers self-contained states with courtiers and diplomats, orthodoxy and heresy lurking under their smooth corporate veneers. Though humorous, Jay's message is clear. To understand the workings of corporation or states, you must understand the nature and behavior of their leaders. And that hasn't changed since the Middle Ages.

About this title

About the Author:

Sir Antony Jay and partner are founders of Video Arts, the business training film production company.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prentice-Hall
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0136026087
• ISBN 13: 9780136026082
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 308