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ITT: We post GOAT leadershipcore books.
Is The Prince some kind of meme?
I found it pretty basic.
>Donald Trump: I have the genes for success
>>7840192
>The Fart Deal: Oh Trumpet
>>7840187
Considering you're not from the 1500s, yes, it will obviously be basic.
>leadership books
>posts a meme
The Prince is a meme meme needs to die.
The Prince is a satire on cut throat Italian politics. Did he live by what he preached? no! He was intelligent, nihilistic, with a wicked sense of humor, but he was not a political mastermind.
Read "Anti-Machiavel" by Frederick the Great.
The Prince, not unlike the Art of War, is hailed as a masterpiece. I read both. Both seemed like an endless chain of obvious instructions to me.
>You can't keep control unless you're not either backed by the people or the ruling class, both is best
No shit sherlock.
>You need to use the terrain to your advantage
Well that's certainly surprising!
I outright refuse to believe these had any value even to people alive at that period. This is the main reason I still believe the Prince to be satire.
>>7840208
>implying I'm not from th 1500's
>implying implications
>>7840606
haha lol you deserve an upvote my friend
>>7840199
Epic memes. Xd
>>7840606
>but he was not a political mastermind.
looks like somebody never read Machiavelli beyond The Prince, that's like reading Inherent Vice and declaring Pynchon humorous but pleb, u sir r an uneducated trash
>>7840921
The Discourses were shit and The Art of War was laughable.
Daodejing, senpai.
>>7840606
>le 'prince was satire' meme
The Art of the Deal by Donald J Trump
I thought Che's Guerrilla Warfare was a romantic manual for running bands of brigands.
>>7840178
The Art of War - Sun Tzu
>>7840623
No the Prince's value is in nuggets like "either give people gifts or crush their shit; moderate responses only fuel rebellion"
Military guides they are not
20-whogivesafuck posts and just The Prince and Sun Tzu's Art of War so far.
Good job /lit/, productive as always.
>>7841784
mistake. meant idealism, not ideology.
>>7840923
>The Discourses were shit
REEE fuck off pleb
"Why does this guy writing half a millenium before me state all of this obvious stuff"
Are you fucking stupid
Although it is mostly just his memoir and journal from the war, there are some good lessons about leading those in your charge.
A lot of the German generals and field marshals of the Second World War also wrote memoirs and hand guides, particularly Guderian and van Manstein
meditations by marcus aurelius
the prince is a joke
