Dial “M” for Machiavelli

About the Book

There is an extensive literature on politics dating back to Hobbes and Machiavelli. However, much of it does not attract the audience involved with the day-to-day realities of contemporary office politics. “Dial M for Machiavelli” is an attempt to collect and sort out some of the Machiavelli’s or Machiavellian metaphors for active busy (or what I call mobile) managers interested in organizational politics and yet do not have the opportunity or the time to go into the depth and details of the academic literature in this field.

About the Author

Hooman Attar is an Assistant Professor of management at Amirkabir University of Technology. He has a PhD in Management from Macquarie Graduate School of Management and conducts research on risks in late modernity, reflective practice, technological change, metaphors, consumer research, and political behavior. He also offers management consulting services on the topics of Enterprise Risk Management, Innovation and Mobile Marketing to diverse industries including Banking, Telecom, Media, and Energy. For more info please contact hooman@aut.ac.ir or visit www.hoomanattar.com