Maquiavelo lecciones para directivos

by Antony Jay

Con el paso de los años hemos recopilado un gran conocimiento acerca de las datos, cifras, libros, estadísticas, así como estudios de los sistemas de la dirección de empresas. Sin embargo, nuestra comprensión no ha aumentado a la par que nuestra información. Pero es preciso para ello mirar a las empresas de una nueva manera, no con el punto de vista del contable, del analista, del matemático, o del economista, sino con el del historiador y del especialista en ciencia política.
En este libro se ha tomado precisamente este camino. Este libro no intenta proporcionar más información sobre las empresas. Su objetivo es dar sentido a la gran masa de información que ya tenemos para dirigir con excelencia.

Genres: Business, Leadership, Nonfiction, Management

216 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1967

Reviews

[Robert · Rating 5 out of 5]

A full five.

1) This book has some of the properties of Brock Yates's 1968 Grosse Point Myopia. It's as if Mr. Jay had a crystal ball.

2) English understatement, but meanings are clear.

3) He spots the misincentives and ego-driven decision making.

4) He correctly foresees the lack of advancement opportunities in business, though this may be partly because it came to Britain before it came to the US.

5) Reminded me of Stanley Bing's Rome, Inc. in that the parallels of organization types are clearly spelled out to the reader's great surprise.

6) Made me wish that the American educational system were not so reductionist; I love, for example, how Jay shows that Prussian politics paralleled how markets are carved between industry leaders.

7) I would have written to him, but he died in 2016, a few months before I finished and 49(?) years after the book was published. He's getting some kind of halo effect from me, pun intended.

8) True 2000 years ago, true 49 years ago, true today.

This book again.

[EAL · Rating 4 out of 5]

The chapters on creative education and creative groups won the fourth star. Lots of interesting conclusions, though I'm sure that they're quite commonplace now. I liked it anyway.

[John · Rating 2 out of 5]

Rated: D-

[Terese]

Great book.

[El Segoviano]

Leí el libro hace mucho tiempo, casi diez años, y aunque por el contenido son reflexiones relacionados con el mundo de la empresa que utilizan como referencia diversas consideraciones que podemos encontrar en El Príncipe de Maquiavelo, la verdad es que no lo recuerdo.
No me atrevo a decir si merece o no la pena su lectura, es posible que sea de esas típicas reflexiones que asumes como propias aunque no tengas muy claro donde las has encontrado, porque todo está inventado.

[Brandon Atwood · Rating 3 out of 5]

Choosing to rate this based on the connections made between business and historical events and less on the managerial and general business advice, otherwise the rating would be lower…as would be expected of a book from 1994.

[Andrea · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book