Continuing a reinterpretation of Robert Greene’s 1998 landmark, “The 48 Laws of Power”, I turn his Law #4 sideways (applying the law to the fighting of counterfeiting and other forms of fraud) and then turn it upside down (using the laws to create better businesses). Given the definition...
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07-22-2009
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Filed under: variable data printing, security printing, deterrents, anti-counterfeiting, security, brand protection, VDP, counterfeit, 48 Laws of Power, Robert Greene, Coriolanus, Marcel Duchamp, caloric restriction, Peter Sellers, Louis XIV
In a continuing interpretation of Robert Greene’s 1998 bestseller, “The 48 Laws of Power” (Penguin Books), I turn it sideways (using the laws to fight counterfeiting and other forms of fraud) and then turn it upside down (using the laws to create better businesses). Today we address...
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StevenSimske
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06-16-2009
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Filed under: variable data printing, security printing, deterrents, anti-counterfeiting, security, brand protection, VDP, counterfeit, 48 Laws of Power, Robert Greene, Kissinger, Talleyrand, Fouché, Napoleon, Hamlet
In 48 posts on this site, Robert Greene’s modern-day Machiavellian masterpiece on the principles of power, “The 48 Laws of Power” (1998, Penguin Books), is being turned sideways (using the laws to fight counterfeiting and other forms of fraud) and then upside down (using the laws to...
Robert Greene’s eclectic masterpiece on the ethics—or lack thereof—of success, “The 48 Laws of Power”, serves as the stimulus for a set of 48 blogs to come on how to use these laws in fighting fraud (turning his rules sideways) and then using them to create better businesses...
A year ago, I entered the first post on this blog, entitled "first day". At that point, I made it clear that my writing (as is true of all non-Twitter writing) had a purpose, had an intent to influence. I have spent the past year--sometimes with whimsy, sometimes with almost incalculable dryness...