The Prince at Work: Machiavelli’s Rules for Power, Loyalty and Survival in Office Politics - Softcover

Name: The Prince at Work: Machiavelli’s Rules for Power, Loyalty and Survival in Office Politics
Author: Farooq, Tariq
ISBN: 9798163292417

Farooq, Tariq

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ISBN 13: 9798163292417

Verlag: Independently published, 2026

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In 1513, the author of history’s most dangerous book on power had just lost his job.

Niccol� Machiavelli was never a prince. For fourteen years he was a civil servant in Florence: a writer of reports, an envoy sent to bargain with kings and popes, an employee. Then a change of regime cost him his office, a conspirators’ list cost him six drops on the torturer’s rope, and he retreated to a small farm to write a short book on how power really works. He hoped it would get him rehired. It did not. Five centuries later, it remains the most honest guide ever written to the politics of any workplace.

The Prince at Work translates Machiavelli’s hard-won rules into the world you actually work in: the reorganization, the new boss, the inherited team, the flattering colleague, the department that guards its turf, the promotion that turns friends into subordinates. Each chapter opens with a vivid scene from Renaissance Italy or ancient Rome, sets out exactly what Machiavelli said, tests it against modern research in psychology and management, and ends with a clear rule you can use the next morning.

Why the people who lose from a change always fight harder than those who gain will defend it, and how to secure your backing before you announce anything
Whether it is better to be feared or loved, and the one line no manager can afford to cross
How to deliver bad news so it is felt once, and good news so it is felt again and again
Why borrowed authority, from the boss’s name to head office’s backing, so often turns on the person who uses it
How to spot flatterers, get honest advice, and tell your own boss the truth without damaging your career
Why staying neutral in an office war leaves you distrusted by the winner and despised by the loser
What to do when your success starts to frighten your superior
How Machiavelli rebuilt his life after losing his job, and what that teaches anyone facing redundancy or a career setback

Written by Tariq Farooq, Assistant Professor of Political Science, with a scholar’s accuracy and a storyteller’s wit, it is ideal for new managers, ambitious professionals, anyone navigating office politics or a difficult boss, and every reader who has wondered whether Machiavelli was a villain or simply the first person honest enough to describe how power works.

This is not a book of tricks. Machiavelli’s worst readers have always taken tricks from him, and most of them came to grief. Drawing on more than 120 scholarly sources and illustrated with 21 diagrams, The Prince at Work shows that his deepest lessons are about seeing clearly: understanding how people behave around power, so that you can protect yourself, lead fairly, and survive the moments that end other careers.

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