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Podcast: Battling with Business
Episode: Episode 159 - Influencers #15 Re-Release - NiccoloΜ Machiavelli - Power and Principle in an Age of Strongmen
Description: This week we revisit, as a re-released episode, one of the most controversial figures in political and leadership thinking as part of our Influencers series. We ask a simple but uncomfortable question. Do good leaders sometimes have to do bad things? It seems particularly relevant given the world around us today.
We return to Niccolo Machiavelli and explore whether he truly deserves his reputation as the patron saint of manipulation and ruthless ambition, or whether he was in fact one of the first serious thinkers to describe leadership as it actually is rather than as we might...