During this time, he travelled widely around European courts and met with powerful people. He served Florence for 14 years in roles we may now recognise as collectively politician, civil servant, and diplomat. However, the regime changed and when, in 1498, Florence became a republic, Machiavelli secured a senior administrative post as Secretary of the second Chancery. Florence was ruled by the powerful Medici family, so despite his patrician roots, there were few opportunities for a talented young man. At the time, Italy was just a set of small, frequently warring, states. Niccolò Machiavelli was born in Florence, in 1469. Niccolò Machiavelli 1469-1527 Short Biography Niccolò Machiavelli arguably saw far into his future, and his writings hold genuine nuggets of wisdom and debate for today’s generation of managers. His thinking has influenced 500 years’ of politicians, and has been influencing managers since the term came to have a real meaning in the mid 19th Century. For the last of our solo * Management Thinkers… and Doers, we turn to a thinker on leadership and a politician supreme.
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