Imagine being a person with such a terrible reputation that your name goes down in history as shorthand for some deplorable human behavior, is in:
Macchiavellian - cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous, especially in politics or in advancing one’s career.
You have to pity Nicolo Macchiavelli, author of The Prince, one of the first leadership advice books in the western world. Because his name has come to have such dreadful connotations, everyone assumes that anything he had to say must be, well — cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous.
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