How to Choose a Leader: Machiavelli's Advice to Citizens

This book offers twenty essential tips for picking great leaders, based on the works of Niccolò Machiavelli, a renowned political adviser. Machiavelli, known for his insights into leadership, believed citizens could identify leaders capable of defending their countries’ liberty, honor, and prosperity. Machiavelli’s wisdom, gathered and interpreted by acclaimed biographer Maurizio Viroli, challenges popular misconceptions about his cynicism. He emphasizes the importance of virtuous and effective leaders for republican survival and thriving. Voters should prioritize the common good and fight corruption. Examining a leader’s past actions and words is crucial for recognition.

This book takes that advice and presents it to the reader so they can best identify mediocre leaders from competent ones, but also for readers that are leaders themselves.

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