Whenever I read such anodyne, corporate-sprech-laden drivel about „how to be a executive in four easy steps“ or „how to be successful, rich and superhappy while remaining a likeable human being“ I always have the same thought: Read Machiavelli. It isn‘t a long book, even super-ambitious future world leaders can finish it between two or three connecting flights.
Whenever I read such anodyne, corporate-sprech-laden drivel about „how to be a executive in four easy steps“ or „how to be successful, rich and superhappy while remaining a likeable human being“ I always have the same thought: Read Machiavelli. It isn‘t a long book, even super-ambitious future world leaders can finish it between two or three connecting flights.
No offense. I am a little tired of all this airport bookshop-level advice as to how to become a successful captain of industry/leader of men or how to lead a meaningful, awakened life (never the two together, though). 99% of it is trivially self-evident, has been said dozens of times before, often with better words or is dumbed down to a truly depressing philosophical level. But if you can further people‘s career and give them the hope of finding the secret potion for success in such quotidian advice - all the more power to you.
Whenever I read such anodyne, corporate-sprech-laden drivel about „how to be a executive in four easy steps“ or „how to be successful, rich and superhappy while remaining a likeable human being“ I always have the same thought: Read Machiavelli. It isn‘t a long book, even super-ambitious future world leaders can finish it between two or three connecting flights.
I'm not familiar with it. Are you unhappy with the article?
No offense. I am a little tired of all this airport bookshop-level advice as to how to become a successful captain of industry/leader of men or how to lead a meaningful, awakened life (never the two together, though). 99% of it is trivially self-evident, has been said dozens of times before, often with better words or is dumbed down to a truly depressing philosophical level. But if you can further people‘s career and give them the hope of finding the secret potion for success in such quotidian advice - all the more power to you.
I see. So are you saying everything in the article was already obvious to you?