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Friday, 21 March 2003

Machiavelli's rules for the nobles of Renaissance Italy are still relevant to the twentieth century managers, just as Newton's laws of gravity will always retain their validity.

Auren Uris, 101 of the Greatest Ideas in Management, cited in Graeme Davison's The Use and Abuse of Australian History (footnote 17 to chapter 12 (p 233)). By way of comment I'll just add five words: Einstein's Theory of General Relativity.