A Book written by Robert Greene that offers a Series of Strategies for Obtaining and Maintaining Power in various situations.
Here we leave you a summary of the 48 Laws:-
1. Don’t Outshine the Boss: Make your Superiors feel Superior. Don’t expose your Talent too much or you might Trigger their Insecurity.
2.Don’t Trust friends too much, use your Enemies: Friends Betray you more easily, but if you Manage to WIN an Enemy, they will be more Loyal.
3. Hide your Intentions: Keep People Off Balance so they can’t anticipate your Actions.
4. Always say Less than Necessary: Silence Breeds Power, and Talking too much Reveals your Plans.
5. Protect your Reputation at all Costs: Reputation is the Cornerstone of Power.
6. Call Attention at all Costs: Be Visible to be Relevant.
7. Make others Work for you and Attribute it: Take Advantage of the Work and Effort of others to your Advantage.
8. Make others come to you: Don’t Run after Others, make them Look for you.
9. Win with Actions, Never Arguments: Prove your Point through Actions, Not Words.
10. Avoid Losers and Unhappy: The Misfortune of others is Contagious; stay away from those who Bring you Down.
11. Make People Depend on you: If others Depend on you, you’re in Control.
12. Disarm with Sincerity and Selective Generosity: Emotional Disarmament will give you an Edge.
13. When you ask for Help, Appeal to the Interests of Others: Appeal to what Benefits Others, not Gratitude or Compassion.
14. Introduce yourself as a Friend, act as a Spy: Learn to Extract Valuable Information from others without them Noticing.
15. Crush your Enemy Completely: Do not let your Enemy Recover, or he will seek Revenge.
16. Use Absence to Increase Respect: The Value of something Increases with Scarcity..
17. Keep Others in Suspense: Be Unpredictable, you will Confuse Others and Gain Power.
18. Do Not Isolate yourself: Loneliness Weakens you; Engage yourself in the Web of Influence.
19. Know Who You’re Dealing With: Choose Your Opponents And Partners Wisely.
20. Don’t compromise with anyone: Maintain your Independence so you don’t get Caught up in other People’s Affairs.
21. Pretend to be a Fool to Catch the Sly: Let others think they have an Advantage over you.
22. Use the Surrender Tactic: Sometimes giving in at the Right Time gives you the Advantage.
23. Focus your Forces: Keep your Energy Focused on what really Matters.
24. Be a Master at Simulation and Disguise: Don’t reveal all your cards.
25. Recreate your own identity: Be the architect of your own destiny.
26. Keep your hands clean: Make sure the responsibility for the problems falls on others.
27. Play with people’s needs to create devotion: Satisfy their deep desires to earn you their loyalty.
28. Be bold in acting: Timidity is dangerous, boldness is powerful.
29. Plan everything to the end: Having a detailed plan allows you to avoid unpleasant surprises.
30. Make your accomplishments look easy: Minimize the effort you put in to make others think you have innate talent.
31. Control Other People’s Options: Guide the decisions of others by giving them limited options.
32. Play with people’s fantasy: Appeal to people’s emotions and dreams to gain clout.
33. Discover the weaknesses of others: Identify what drives people to manipulate their actions.
34. Be rule in your behavior: Power lies in the appearance of greatness and dignity.
35. Master the art of timing: Don’t rush; everything has its right time.
36. Despise what you can’t have: Don’t obsess over things that are out of your reach.
37. Create engaging spectacles: Theatrics and spectacles capture attention.
38. Think as you wish, but behave like everyone else: Do not openly defy social norms.
39. Stir the waters to catch fish: Destabilize others to make mistakes.
40. Despise free: What is free usually comes with a hidden cost.
41. Avoid imitating great men: Forge your own path instead of following in the footsteps of others.
42. Beat the shepherd and the sheep will scatter: He demolishes leaders to weaken his followers.
43. Work on the hearts and minds of others: Conquer the spirit of people to control them.
44. Disarm and anger with mirror effect: Reflect the actions of others to destabilize them.
45. Preach the need for change, but never reform too much: Radical change can generate resistance.
46. Never look too perfect: Perfection breeds envy and haters.
47. Don’t exceed your goal: When you achieve what you want, retire on time.
48. Be amorphous: Be adaptable, don’t limit yourself to a rigid form.
These laws are designed to handle situations of power, but it’s important to consider context and personal ethics when applying them.