Why I Hate The 48 Laws of Power (And Why I Might Secretly Love It)

Robert Carnes
4 min readFeb 27, 2023

I’m in a book club, and every month, we read a business book and discuss it together. Recently, we selected Robert Greene’s best-seller The 48 Laws of Power.

I’d heard of the book and was curious to read it. Then I got a copy and found out what the book was actually about. It shouldn’t have been a surprise from the title — the book is about power.

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Robert Carnes

Communicator. Innovator. Storyteller. Author of several books, including The Story Cycle.