You’re doing it backwards. You’re trying to be valuable by helping everyone, solving problems, being available. You think this creates power.
It doesn’t. It makes you a high-quality servant.
Men with real power don’t add value to many. They control what few desperately need and cannot get elsewhere. They’re the bottleneck. The unavoidable junction point. The monopoly.
Machiavelli watched this in Renaissance Italy. The advisors who made themselves valuable by serving princes remained advisors – smart, respected, powerless. The princes who controlled trade routes, military force, critical resources had advisors fighting each other to serve them.
Not because princes were nicer. Because they controlled what others couldn’t proceed without.
This reveals the three elements of monopoly power: controlling something others desperately need, making yourself the only source, and making access expensive and scarce. When you’re the bottleneck, they don’t flow around you – they flow through you. And to flow through you, they serve you.
You’ll discover why being helpful to many keeps you powerless, how to identify what high-value people desperately need, the four methods to create strategic monopoly position, and why most men fail because they can’t kill their need for approval.
This requires becoming what you were taught to hate: the gatekeeper, the expensive resource, the selective one. The difficult transformation from advisor to prince.
Machiavelli’s lesson: One was utility. One was power. Which one will you be?
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