According to Machiavelli, if a prince wishes to continue ruling his state, he must not be exclusively concerned about being praised. In the 7th paragraph Machiavelli noted that "a man who wishes to make a vocation of being good at all times will come to ruin among so many who are not good"...

Outsourcing presents a number of difficult ethical concerns for the operations manager. Recently, IBM was faced with the decision of whether or not to outsource technical jobs to India. In considering outsourcing, IBM had to balance potential negatives like job loss against potential profit gains. A...

Machiavelli The Morphing of Machiavellian Ideas In the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries the common people relied on the princes of the day for protection. These princes, therefore, exercised absolute power over their state. They had a duty to protect the people and their land, and ...

Hoffer and the "True Believer" When president Dwight D. Eisenhower referred to Eric Hoffer's The True Believer in a nationally televised address in the 1950s, the public must have thought that mentioning the works of the "longshoreman philosopher" in a formal address t...