Book description
The Handbook for Leaders
The Prince is often regarded as the first true leadership
book. It shocked contemporary readers with its ruthless call for
fearless and effective action. With simple prose and straightforward
logic, Machiavelli's guide still has the power to surprise and inform
anyone hoping to make their way in the world.
This keepsake edition includes an introduction by Tom Butler-Bowdon,
drawing out lessons for managers and business leaders, and showing how
The Prince remains vital reading for anyone in the realm
of business or politics.
Niccolò Machiavelli was an Italian philosopher and
writer, and is considered one of the founders of modern political
science. He was a diplomat and civil servant in the Florentine
Republic in the sixteenth century, until arrested for conspiracy in
1513 after which he gave his time to writing.
Tom Butler-Bowdon is the author of five bestselling books on
classic self-help and motivational writing. He has been described by
USA Today as “a true scholar of this type of literature.”
His first book,
50 Self-Help Classics, won the 2004 Benjamin Franklin
award. www. butler-bowdon. com
