Can a bad person be a good leader? Machiavelli may have an answer. What if a person is a good leader… and a bad person? In this episode of Crash Course Political Theory, we unpack that idea through ...

Niccolò Machiavelli was a Florentine political philosopher whose writings gave rise to the term “Machiavellian,” a word that describes the use of manipulation and deception in an ...

The term “machiavellian” comes from the Italian Renaissance diplomat and philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli, whose name has become synonymous with cunning, strategy and manipulation. As a personality ...

The new president seems to implicitly grasp two core lessons from Machiavelli’s writing: the difficulty of fundamental change, and the need to strike quickly against his enemies. Donald Trump is not ...

In the cutthroat world of corporate leadership, being strategically cunning may pay off—literally. Researchers at the University of Florida's Warrington College of Business recently published a study ...

A new study published in the Journal of Organizational Behavior sheds light on the ongoing debate over whether Machiavellian tactics help or hurt leaders in the workplace. Analyzing data from over ...