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    Applications of Machiavelli’s The Prince, in General Electric General Electric has had exceptional leadership that has kept the company at the top of their business. This success is attributed to both individual efforts to spur the corporation and the consequential results achieved collectively. GE has established the entire organization based on creativity and innovation, as they tend to inspire the public and improve their present lifestyles. However, this subject needs thorough discussion by distinguishing

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    Through this IO, my understanding on Machiavelli’s principalities had improved tremendously as the class discussed about his principles of fear and fortune, and connected them to real world examples. Initially, I came into the discussion with an understanding as to why it is better to be feared than to be loved if a prince cannot be both, however, I had a difficult time connecting it to the real world. Through the class discussion, I was able to realize that this principle is used in families,

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    New principalities are principalities that have just been created and it is not hereditary, the ruler will start to build himself from scratch, and wanting to be the ruler and finally accomplishing his goal makes him fall under the new principality. Mixed principalities are principalities that they have started for a long time, but the leadership does not pass from father to son. Finally is the heredity principal, which is the principality that a ruler inherits from father

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    Niccolò Machiavelli was born May third, 1469 in Florence, Italy to a well to do family and received the typical education of the time. He later went on to become a politician, writing many well known works such as The Art of War and the play The Mandrake. However his most well known piece of writing is The Prince an important piece that gives a look into politics of the time period. His writing which is very different from other works of this period often foregoes moral and ethics to show his reader

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    varied as the ways in which one “inherits” a new boss, likewise new principalities have an abundance of ways of being acquired. Niccolo

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    “All the states, all the dominions, under whose authority men have lived in the past and live now have been and are either republics or principalities.” In Machiavelli’s, The Prince, timeless keys to a successful principality are examined. The keys are understanding human nature, respecting that nature, and reaffirming that successful leadership can exist in the same fashion yesterday, today, and tomorrow.      Machiavelli’s perspective of human nature is founded on

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    Machiavelli defines it as the worst option for a principality. Then is the auxiliary army. This kind of army is not unlike the previous one, it is an army that is not proper and eventually ends up putting the principality in a situation of debt with the principality that the army belongs to. The principality lost its military independence and is tied at the mercy of another principality. Additionally, he describes, the own army that is the best army a principality could take and is the most recommended by

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    1-9; military and the strength of principalities, chapters 10-13; the qualities and prudence of the prince (Machiavelli), chapters 14-23; and prudence and chance around the situation in Italy at the time, chapters 24-26. So it is logical to start with the first section of The Prince which is the section focusing on the new princedoms and Free States. One main point that seems to continually bring its self to light throughout the book is the idea that “principalities are hereditary.” This is referring

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    Princes who live on site can easily detect disorders and find their remedies, but a Prince who is not on site will not be able to cure a problem until it is too late. In Chapter 9 of The Prince. Machiavelli lays the foundation within Civil Principalities by describing the two humors: the people and the nobles. The

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    from the ruling Medici family, or was a means of prolonging his wisdom. The Prince is considered an innovative piece of modern philosophy, and establishes certain aspects of rule and behaviour for a new ruler, and serves as a study of various principalities. This excerpt lays out how it is

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