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Title: The 48 Laws of Power
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Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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| The 48 Laws of Power by Penguin (Non-Classics) 48 Laws of Power | | Decent book but all the laws aint the greatest. Follow this book and you can get killed. | | The 48 Laws of Power by Penguin (Non-Classics) Is this really the answer? | Many people have found books like these, essentially "how to manipulate people," to be useful in achieving certain goals. However, in my experiences, people that succeed through these techniques almost always seem to grow a void within themselves. One might be able to convince others to the point of submission, but are they really happy? Books like these do not offer advice on life balance and personal relationships. Do people really like you? What do others really think of you and your ideas?
Another point to think about, to take from Stephen Covey: How many on their deathbeds wished they'd spent more time at the office? Even Maslow at the end of his life put the happiness and fulfillment and contributions of his posterity (self-transcendence) at the top of his famous "hierarchy." What kind of overall life balance will manipulation techniques bring you?
Take into consideration another alternative: Covey's The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. This book gives ideas on how to look at the world and yourself, and gives basis for a lifelong challenge in personal change. Practicing these habits can give you the "manipulation" you want through building genuine relationships all while being able to sleep at night knowing that you have real friends, self worth, and above all, a positive life balance. | | The 48 Laws of Power by Penguin (Non-Classics) Attention Manipulators!! | I cringe. Is there really a craze behind this deceptively inspirational book? People, people, people - WAKE UP!! This book clearly needs to be titled "The Art of Manipulation" or maybe "How to Be a Robot" oh, I got it, "No, I will NOT Work Hard, Treat Others Right, or Be Honest!" The author did this one thing - dusted off the dictionary to teach those on the quest for power (I'll get into that in a second) how to be lazy, mindless manipulators who operate without any integrity. This book;s "laws" (ha! Is that what they are supposed to be?) contradict themselves. If in fact this is how corporate America's finest have achived their "success", then NO WONDER we have infamous cases like Enron, etc. Surely, people who live by these idiotic statements of immorality, oops, I mean "laws" will reap what they sow. THIS is what our society offers us and we gobble it up like it was the hidden golden treasure. What??!! This book covers itself up to be promoted toward the power-seeker, THEN when you get inside, it slowly and cunningly advises you how to be an easy-street-seeker.
Power-hungry folks are no different than someone with a Napolean complex. Trying to compensate for who you really aren't. BUT there's Hope!!
Work hard. Treat people fairly. Live an honest life. Then, people will SEE your example, respect you and others will want to "pour out blessings unto your bosom"!! Even if they don't you can sleep at night. Be on guard for people trying to set you up for a life that will most certainly backfire. You deserve so much more than that. God bless YOU!
| | The 48 Laws of Power by Penguin (Non-Classics) Buy this book, and read it in secret! | If you watch TV news and movies and believe the Forrest Gump morality out there, that "people will be good to you if you're good to them" or that
"if you can't trust your friends, whom can you trust?", then you need
to read this book and wake up and smell the coffee. Tired of the self-help books telling you that all you need to do to get ahead is just be a better,
bigger person? Garbage, right? After all, you know the types that get promoted are just obsequious backstabbers, right? You are right. Power
is a game, and they are playing it, while you sit there hoping the world will get right with your "morality", the same morality, by the way, which we often hear from the lips of the disenfranchised? Coincidence? No. It's because when people refuse to play the power game, they will only be isolated and victimized by it. If you're relying on your friends, others' good will and your sense of justice and morality to get by in life, then you had best buy this book, because it will teach you the errors of your ways. Even if you don't want to be "powerful" but simply wish to protect yourself, you need to read this. Otherwise, you'll be wondering (like I did) how come the world is not recognizing my achievements, my due merits, or why do bad things happen to good people?
This book is THE modern Machiavelli primer on power. Read it and understand how the world really works. | | The 48 Laws of Power by Penguin (Non-Classics) An amazing work of written genius. | | This book distills the essence of power and also gives the reader concrete ways to augment their presence in a world hungry for power. | | The 48 Laws of Power by Penguin (Non-Classics) Book Description | | Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills three thousand years of the history of power in to forty-eight well explicated laws. As attention--grabbing in its design as it is in its content, this bold volume outlines the laws of power in their unvarnished essence, synthesizing the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun-tzu, Carl von Clausewitz, and other great thinkers. Some laws teach the need for prudence ("Law 1: Never Outshine the Master"), the virtue of stealth ("Law 3: Conceal Your Intentions"), and many demand the total absence of mercy ("Law 15: Crush Your Enemy Totally"), but like it or not, all have applications in real life. Illustrated through the tactics of Queen Elizabeth I, Henry Kissinger, P. T. Barnum, and other famous figures who have wielded--or been victimized by--power, these laws will fascinate any reader interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control. | | The 48 Laws of Power by Penguin (Non-Classics) Amazon.com | | "Learning the game of power requires a certain way of looking at the world, a shifting of perspective," writes Robert Greene. Mastery of one's emotions and the arts of deception and indirection are, he goes on to assert, essential. The 48 laws outlined in this book "have a simple premise: certain actions always increase one's power ... while others decrease it and even ruin us." The laws cull their principles from many great schemers--and scheming instructors--throughout history, from Sun-Tzu to Talleyrand, from Casanova to con man Yellow Kid Weil. They are straightforward in their amoral simplicity: "Get others to do the work for you, but always take the credit," or "Discover each man's thumbscrew." Each chapter provides examples of the consequences of observance or transgression of the law, along with "keys to power," potential "reversals" (where the converse of the law might also be useful), and a single paragraph cleverly laid out to suggest an image (such as the aforementioned thumbscrew); the margins are filled with illustrative quotations. Practitioners of one-upmanship have been given a new, comprehensive training manual, as up-to-date as it is timeless. |
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