Apr 2006 - Looking back through my journals, apparently I read this sometime in 2001, but it must not have been memorable. I picked it up again in 2006 as if it was new. After reading The Prince, I thought it would be a good idea to read this since there is some correlation.

This work is probably more important for what it leaves unsaid than what it actually says. I'm not about to try to make any claims about the impact of this book, because I think it has to be understood in context with other works of its type, but it is a good book for those studying leadership and rhetoric. The critical reader will see how the concepts mentioned here apply to business and leadership roles. The uncritical reader will think it's a bunch of gobbledygook.