Strip away the reputation and The Prince is a risk management manual. Machiavelli assumes every neighbor is a potential adversary, every alliance temporary, and every fortress only as strong as the loyalty of the people inside it.
Security teams will recognize the instincts. Defense in depth. Insider threat taken seriously five centuries before the term existed. A clear eyed view that systems fail at their human seams first.
I am not suggesting we govern projects by it. I am suggesting that the oldest book on my shelf about power still has things to teach the newest discipline on my resume.
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