“A Prince who is not wise himself will never take good advice”

(Il Principe, Niccolò Machiavelli, 1513)

I could never ask for help.

For the longest time I was convinced that life in business was something you had to figure out by yourself. Any admission of weakness was the first step on the road to disaster and an unravelling of the great fraud that I have generally felt I was perpetrating on humanity. I took (and st…