The Mafia Manager: A Guide to the Corporate Machiavelli is a business management book written under the pseudonym . Originally expanded from an article in
Written by an anonymous author known only as "V," the book claims to draw its wisdom from the archives of history’s most ruthless organizations—La Cosa Nostra. It posits that the modern corporation functions identically to a crime syndicate, and that to survive, one must adopt the strategies of a Don. The Mafia Manager: A Guide to the Corporate
Where Machiavelli wrote for Renaissance princes, "V." writes for the modern CEO. The corporate world, he argues, is a lawless jungle disguised by HR policies. The "Corporate Machiavelli" is the manager who: Positive (niche): Praised for its brutal honesty in