a recent review of conrad black’s biography of nixon contained this quote about henry kissinger: that he was a master "of scraping the barrel with his obsequious memos and asides".
in a previous book i had read (a crime thriller by the very competent peter robinson) there was a little bit about how brown-nosers never succeed and that at some point they are found out.
when i read the kissinger piece it reminded me that over the years i have had the privilege to work with some of the finest brown-nosers ever. in fact there has been an almost unbroken line of them since i started.
not only do they survive, but they thrive.
i am surprised at just how well they do, and how easily people who you wouldn’t think would fall for it do.
the real classy brown-noser is also teflon, so not only do they have their tongue planted firmly up the crack of someone who is more important than they are but nothing every goes wrong for them and when it does it just slides straight off.
i doff my cap to the brown-nosers those that i have worked with and those that i am currently working with. they play the game much better than me, it is not about the work you do it is about the sucking up you do.
(sorry i know i am going over old ground here – just blame the guardian review for picking at the slowly forming scabs of bitterness…)
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