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Analyse a workplace power situation the way Machiavelli's The Prince (1532) would — who holds power, whose support you need, what fortune can take from you — then give both the Machiavellian read and the honest modern counterweight. Use when navigating a reorg, a new leader arriving, stakeholder politics, a territory dispute, or 'my project is caught in politics'. Produces a power map, a Machiavellian assessment, and an ethical playing-it-straight plan.

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# Machiavelli Counsel Skill

Five hundred years before "stakeholder management," Machiavelli wrote the unsentimental
manual on power: how it is gained, kept, and lost. This skill applies The Prince's
actual analytical questions to a modern workplace situation — then, because flattery
of the reader's cynicism is its own trap, pairs every Machiavellian read with the
honest modern move. You get the clear-eyed analysis without the 16th-century ethics.

## What This Skill Produces

- A **power map** of the situation: who decides, who influences the decider, whose
  support is load-bearing, who loses if you win
- A **Machiavellian assessment** — what The Prince's framework actually says about
  your position (not generic "office politics tips")
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