The Machiavellian Manager's Handbook for Success (Paperback)

~ Lynn Gunlicks (Author)
Key Phrases: Machiavellian Manager, Organizational Placement Strategy, Sharpening Your Sword (more...)

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The Machiavellian Manager lives by one Code of Ethics: Whatever I can get away with to enhance my career is acceptable. Success is defined by the accumulation of power, prestige, and wealth.

The Machiavellian Manager's career is very successful and marked by rapid advancement. Unfortunately, the road to success is paved with the ruined careers of former associates and colleagues.

The Machiavellian Manager is amoral and you may be the next victim.

In today's "survival of the fittest" business climate, you need to know how to plan and execute a counterattack on the most destructive force in the office: The Machiavellian Manager.

You can defend yourself against the lethal tactics of the Machiavellian and succeed honorably with the help of The Machiavellian Manager's Handbook for Success.

About the Author

Lynn 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.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: iUniverse (May 24, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 059500041X
• ISBN-13: 978-0595000418
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,537,861 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is the Bible for my Bad side., November 18, 2000

By	Alessandra Eakin "Alessandra Eakin: Ugly Is N... (Atlanta, GA USA) - See all my reviews

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:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is the Bible for my Bad side., November 18, 2000

By	Alessandra Eakin "Alessandra Eakin: Ugly Is N... (Atlanta, GA USA) - See all my reviews

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:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Reference, November 30, 1999

By	"aboluay" (Dubai, U.A.E.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Machiavellian Manager's Handbook for Success (The Libey Business Library) (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.