What Is The Purpose Of The Prince By Machiavelli

Niccolo Machiavelli’s, The Prince is used as a guide for ruling and maintaining control. This book was essential in aiding prince of Florence, Lorenzo de Medici, to help solidify the union in Italy. Machiavelli created it in an effort to gain the position of Lorenzo’s political advisor. As a result of the book, Machiavelli was appointed Lorenzo’s political advisor demonstrating how concrete his claims and supporting evidence were in gaining and maintaining control. Despite being principles established in the past, it is still relevant to businesses today. Similar to the prince’s guideline, the businesses today must learn how to captivate the people’s attention, maintain them satisfied an d effectively establish control to remain in power.
When executing the companies vision, it is important to keep an equal balance of focus on both the employees and customers. Without the employees, the company will not function effectively and without the customers, the company will not retain profit. Walmart focuses on the needs and wants of its customers but fails to make their employees happy. For example, Walmart may offer low prices to the customers but does not provide a high pay to their employees. Walmart’s employees are earning such a low pay that they are eligible for assistance from the government. The article called, “Report: Walmart Workers Cost Taxpayers $6.2 Billion In Public Assistance” written by Clare O’Connor states how the “low wages and benefits, which often force workers to rely on various public assistance programs.” Walmart has continuously made efforts to not “make the nobles [customers] despair” by offering online access in addition to low prices but makes no effort to make their employees “content” (61). Walmart’s employees are essential because they execute the company’s vision and should be rewarded with higher pay, so they are encouraged to value the company they work for. Henry Blodget’s article called “Walmart Employs 1% of America, Should It Be Forced to Pay Its Employees More” also points out the fact that worldwide Walmart employs 2.1
As a result, Walmart is failing to satisfy the customer’s needs and wants. Walmart continues to reject Machiavelli’s teachings of how “the Romans saw when troubles were coming and always took countermeasures. They never, to avoid a war, allowed them to go unchecked” (12). Walmart isn’t taking countermeasures to address their issues of restocking. By not doing so, they can be seen as unreliable. In my writing in Essay 3, it emphasized how Walmart can be negatively impacted by this issue because “when consumers do not find what they need they are more likely to rely on another retail store to satisfy their satisfaction of the product they need.” They are allowing their issues to go unchecked and as a result, they face risk of losing to their competition, Amazon. Walmart is essentially “at war” with Amazon and Amazon has managed to use tactics to gain an advantage. Amazon’s advantage is that they bought Whole foods, putting them within the grocery market. According to Adam Hartung’s article, “The 9 Reasons Why Amazon Buying Whole Foods Is A Good Idea”, because Amazon bought Whole Foods, it can “personalize grocery shopping like it did general merchandise.” Amazon has the power to beat Walmart within the retail market because one of Walmart’s highest probability was groceries sales. According to the Statista website, Amazon has control over a higher