On the Collins project, wouldn't it have been obvious to the suppliers' people that one of the customer's ?

Question

people was a fraud. To distract attention from themselves they would have needed to engineer all sorts of schemes. Small wonder that the quality of the project would show a J-curve. How would Machiavelli have approached the project ? (Machiavelli would assume one of his own people would be a fraud, and would somehow protect against this up front. But how ?)

Answer 1

TROLL!!!!!!!!

Nobody but obsessive little whiners give a rats bottom about this and it has nothing to do with philosophy!

Answer 2

By giving everyone the sack and doing it all himself?  No really, he would have bugged everyone and everything, cameras, tracking devices, phone intercepts, the lot.