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Move Over Machiavelli, There's a New Prince in Town; New Leadership Book Challenges Conventional Views.

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LOS ANGELES, Oct. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- For years, Niccolo Machiavelli's 16th-century "The Prince" has been required reading for the leadership set. Machiavelli's premise was that leadership could be taught, with his advice rooted in matters of style, authority and control. A new book, with a new Prince at center stage, takes the opposite view.

"To say that leadership can be taught assumes that the leader and the act of leadership can be separated, and they can't... leadership is very personal," asserts Matthew May, author of "Absolute Impact: The Drive for Personal ...

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