Business and Leadership Lessons from Machiavelli’s ‘The Prince’

Niccolo Machiavelli’s ‘The Prince’ was written in the early 16th Century whilst he was living in exile, as a gift to Lorenzo Medici — defacto ruler of the Florentine republic — arguably as a means to earn his place in society as a statesman again.

The Prince is to this day considered one of the earliest works of modern philosophy, and indeed of modern…