Machiavelli is an interesting dude. On one hand his theories on how to be an effective leader seem to be extremely controversial and wrong. But on the other hand his rules and stipulations seem like incredibly accurate and are almost proven to work if a person wants to be an effective leader. This raises an interesting question, especially because the morality of The Prince seems to not exist, is it possible to be a moral and effective leader? Machiavelli makes it seem like both which is mind boggling as we humans tend to really try and think of everything we do as black and white.
It is also very interesting that people hate this book, or at least love to hate it. This is interesting to me because again it is really good information to have if you want to be the most effective leader possible. It makes me wonder if Lorenzo de Medici made people hate it then because he was the Prince it became so ingrained in the nobility of Italy then spread outward to other countries nobilities that laughed at how it made their position seem so dirty and cruel perpetuating the idea that The Prince was so wrong and hateable.
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