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<blockquote data-quote="Sovereign" data-source="post: 27087" data-attributes="member: 10"><p><strong><em><span style="font-size: 26px">Machiavelli’s Rules</span></em></strong></p><p><span style="font-size: 26px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 26px"><strong><strong>Machiavelli’s ideas about power and governing</strong></strong> can be boiled down to a handful of rules, somewhat paraphrased below and not in any particular order of importance:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 26px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 26px"> </span></p><ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><span style="font-size: 26px">Winning matters.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><span style="font-size: 26px">If you win, people will judge the methods you used to win as appropriate. If you lose, they will despise both you and your means.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><span style="font-size: 26px">If you can’t be both loved and feared, choose fear. Affection is fickle, but the fear of punishment is constant.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><span style="font-size: 26px">Crush your opponents.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><span style="font-size: 26px">Use your power harshly only for a short time, to achieve a greater stability for the municipality.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><span style="font-size: 26px">Learn the rules of the game so you can use them to your advantage.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><span style="font-size: 26px">Consultants and lobbyists are working for their own interests, not yours. Where possible use your own people and staff, instead of outsiders.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><span style="font-size: 26px">You need both cunning and strength to survive in the political wilderness. Strength alone isn’t enough.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><span style="font-size: 26px">Only keep your promises when it is beneficial to do so. It’s okay to break them when times change, or the need to keep them has gone.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><span style="font-size: 26px">Appear inflexible, decisive and resolute, but act as the situation and the political climate demand.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><span style="font-size: 26px">Pick sides. The middle ground offers the worst of both sides, not the best.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><span style="font-size: 26px">Avoid flatterers and sycophants.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><span style="font-size: 26px">Learn how not to be good: be bad when necessity demands it.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><span style="font-size: 26px">Knock a few heads together when you have to show the rest who’s boss.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><span style="font-size: 26px">Be stingy, not generous.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><span style="font-size: 26px">Place your own stamp on the municipality: erase anything that remains of the former mayor and council.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><span style="font-size: 26px">Change with the times.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><span style="font-size: 26px">It is better to be adventurous than cautious.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><span style="font-size: 26px">Make sure all your advisors, your friends and staff know their benefits and their positions depend on your success.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><span style="font-size: 26px">Guard your reputation: it is your most precious asset.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><span style="font-size: 26px">You owe your allegiance to the people, not to the civil servants, special interest groups, lobbyists or your friends.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><span style="font-size: 26px">Study the greats, study history, study politics, strategy and most of all, study war.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><span style="font-size: 26px">Hire smart people.</span></li> </ol><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://ianchadwick.com/machiavelli/addenda/machiavellis-rules/[/URL]</p></blockquote><p></p>
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