The employers of the estate agent who sued them for unfair constructive dismissal would do well to read Machiavelli<\/p>\n
Niccol\u00f2 Machiavelli had an important piece of advice about office politics: \u201cIf an injury has to be done to a man,\u201d he writes in The Prince<\/em>, \u201cit should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.\u201d Most of us can relate to that.<\/p>\n It\u2019s likely that whoever accidentally insulted Nicholas Walker<\/a>, the take-no-prisoners manager of the Rickmansworth branch of Robsons Estate Agents, by giving him a second-rate desk, hadn\u2019t read Machiavelli\u2019s 1532 tract. Because Walker, no doubt thinking of Machiavelli\u2019s subsequent invocation \u2013 \u201cit is safer to be feared than loved because \u2026 fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails\u201d \u2013 immediately dragged his ashen-faced employers to an employment tribunal where he successfully sued them for unfair constructive dismissal. They probably really regret giving him that desk.<\/p>\n Holmes and Moriarty<\/em>, the new authorised Sherlock Holmes novel by Gareth Rubin, is out now<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The employers of the estate agent who sued them for unfair constructive dismissal would do well to read Machiavelli Niccol\u00f2 Machiavelli had an important piece of advice about office politics: \u201cIf an injury has to be done to a man,\u201d he writes in The Prince, \u201cit should be so severe that his vengeance need not … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}