| The fascination over The Prince has for hundreds of | | | | situation is relevant to those who study the game of |
| years been a widely read book and the author of; | | | | business and commerce in the present period. For |
| What Would Machiavelli Do? The Ends Justify the | | | | those who deny these Machiavellian tendencies in |
| Meanness; Stanley Bings, sheds some light on the | | | | business well competitors or competitor driven |
| subject using comical comments to show it correlation | | | | government regulators or lawsuits would instantly |
| to business and indeed there are many interesting | | | | crush them in my market place. You play hard and you |
| correlations.Business in many ways is like war and the | | | | play to win in business and of course you must go for |
| internal ladder climbing of Primate Politics in modern | | | | it.You see in business really there is no free lunch and |
| day corporations somewhat resembles The Prince. | | | | you must search out and eventually seize opportunity, |
| The Satire used in the book is funny and serious; Bing | | | | crush the competition and win. Each battle in business |
| did an awesome on this book. The book is very much | | | | is determined by the smart, meanest, toughest and |
| worth reading and very interesting as well. Some | | | | most ruthless. Cooperation is also smart at times as |
| people may not be able to handle what is in the book | | | | any good Prince knows and as Bing points out as he |
| but the way I see it is that if someone cannot handle | | | | correlates Business to Machiavellian Principles. |
| what is written in the book then they are not reality | | | | Consider all this in 2006. |
| based or somewhat of a wimp.The reality of the | | | | |