In today's permanent restructuring of business, the Machiavellian Manager--operating under the credo "Anything whatsoever to enhance my own career is acceptable"--survives and thrives while "nice people" lose their jobs. This first complete handbook for understanding the insidious nature of the Machiavellian offers insight on how to deal with these management monsters.
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Mr. L.F. Gunlicks is a senior inspector in the Office the Inspector General, Department of Justice. A native of Nebraska, he has traveled the world extensively. He currently lives with his wife and three children in Virginia.
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This is the Bible for my Bad side.,
By Alessandra Eakin "The Office Hottie from Ugly... (Atlanta, GA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Machiavellian Manager's Handbook for Success (Paperback)
At the tender age of 22, I graduated from a southern university and moved to Washington, D.C. I went from the Land of Gentility, where the women are beautiful and the men are gallant, to the Seat of Satan, where the women are plain and the men are just angry. Southern Hospitality had been supplanted by subterfuge and vice. Work was war games for us entry-level paralegals. There was sabotage in every form: from hiding a coworker's legal briefings, having nothing to show after hours of tracked overtime; to assigning us a task only to be reprimanded for not delivering what was asked for; to sleeping around to get on better cases with more glory; to the ruin of reputations simply for being a intellectual threat to a mental midget, who were many. I was unarmed and overwhelmed. After suffering the slings and arrows of underhanded tactics, I found my weapon to return fire. L. F. Gunlicks's manifesto for whimpering imps is my Art of War, with respect to Sun Tzu. I found his book while on my lunch break at a time in my life when my sanity was being questioned, my abilities were discounted, and my allies unemployed. By luck, I picked up The Machiavellian Manager's Handbook for Success and the clouds parted, the sun beamed through. My enemies hissed and recoiled from the light. This became my Bible for my Bad side. No more being nice. I win. He details every tactic of the shrewd coworker, intent on thwarting the path of your rising star, to the manipulations of an inept manager. He devises counterattacks through clever strategies, which always succeeds in reversing the destruction and exposing the evildoer. This is accomplished in ways that never reveal your hand on the map. Follow his guide and systematically dismantle the power of your detractors. The Empress Tzu Hsi said, "It is better to have strong adversaries than weak allies." This book helps you to identify your enemies from your allies and to gauge their strength and their weakness. Use it. Win.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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This is the Bible for my Bad side.,
By Alessandra Eakin "The Office Hottie from Ugly... (Atlanta, GA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Machiavellian Manager's Handbook for Success (Paperback)
At the tender age of 22, I graduated from a southern university and moved to Washington, D.C. I went from the Land of Gentility, where the women are beautiful and the men are gallant, to the Seat of Satan, where the women are plain and the men are just angry. Southern Hospitality had been supplanted by subterfuge and vice. Work was war games for us entry-level paralegals. There was sabotage in every form: from hiding a coworker's legal briefings, having nothing to show after hours of tracked overtime; to assigning us a task only to be reprimanded for not delivering what was asked for; to sleeping around to get on better cases with more glory; to the ruin of reputations simply for being a intellectual threat to a mental midget, who were many. I was unarmed and overwhelmed. After suffering the slings and arrows of underhanded tactics, I found my weapon to return fire. L. F. Gunlicks's manifesto for whimpering imps is my Art of War, with respect to Sun Tzu. I found his book while on my lunch break at a time in my life when my sanity was being questioned, my abilities were discounted, and my allies unemployed. By luck, I picked up The Machiavellian Manager's Handbook for Success and the clouds parted, the sun beamed through. My enemies hissed and recoiled from the light. This became my Bible for my Bad side. No more being nice. I win. L.F. Gunlicks details every tactic of the shrewd coworker, intent on thwarting the path of your rising star, to the manipulations of an inept manager. He devises counterattacks through clever strategies, which always succeeds in reversing the destruction and exposing the evildoer. This is accomplished in ways that never reveal your hand on the map. Follow his guide and systematically dismantle the power of your detractors. The Empress Tzu Hsi said, "It is better to have strong adversaries than weak allies." This book helps you to identify your enemies from your allies and to gauge their strength and their weakness. Use it. Win.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Good Reference,
This review is from: The Machiavellian Manager's Handbook for Success (The Libey Business Library) (Hardcover)
It is a good reference work on the personality, attitude and habits of any Machiavellian Manager. Detailed descriptions of the motives, reactions and descriptors of a self-cenetred employee who is ready to do anything to achieve personal gains. A must read for anyone who needs to understand, manage, avoid, conteract, (even become) a machiavillian manager.
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