George Fripley
George Fripley has worked in government, the mining industry, as a private consultant and at a university.
His major talent is writing and speaking shallow comforting words that mean absolutely nothing.
His major talent is writing and speaking shallow comforting words that mean absolutely nothing.
You Can't Polish A Turd
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'You Can't Polish A Turd' is a book born of a lifetime - well, it felt like a lifetime - of experience working in and with bureaucracy.
Some might deem it cynical, others not cynical enough, but most will repeatedly nod their heads in profound recognition.
If you are already a bureaucrat, you may find it brings tears to your eyes - both of laughter and despair - and whatever your bureaucratic hue, public or corporate, it is probably the book you will wish you had read years ago, the one which would have saved you from committing all those silly, and sometimes fatal, transgressions against the bureaucratic code which are so easily made if you have pretentions to humanity, decency and indeed activity.
However, if you are only just stepping out onto the winding career path of a convicted bureaucrat, this is an absolute must-read that will guide you unfailingly to the very top of your profession so long as you implement its recommendations precisely and without moral weakness.
All in all, this is a fine companion piece to its corporate equivalents, Terry Farnsworth's 'On The Way Up' or Robert Townsend's 'Up The Organisation' - well, more like Terry's actually because its fundamental tenet is that optimism is futile, but that futility can be both entertaining and highly rewarding.
Available from Kindle - here
Available from Smashwords - here
'You Can't Polish A Turd' is a book born of a lifetime - well, it felt like a lifetime - of experience working in and with bureaucracy.
Some might deem it cynical, others not cynical enough, but most will repeatedly nod their heads in profound recognition.
If you are already a bureaucrat, you may find it brings tears to your eyes - both of laughter and despair - and whatever your bureaucratic hue, public or corporate, it is probably the book you will wish you had read years ago, the one which would have saved you from committing all those silly, and sometimes fatal, transgressions against the bureaucratic code which are so easily made if you have pretentions to humanity, decency and indeed activity.
However, if you are only just stepping out onto the winding career path of a convicted bureaucrat, this is an absolute must-read that will guide you unfailingly to the very top of your profession so long as you implement its recommendations precisely and without moral weakness.
All in all, this is a fine companion piece to its corporate equivalents, Terry Farnsworth's 'On The Way Up' or Robert Townsend's 'Up The Organisation' - well, more like Terry's actually because its fundamental tenet is that optimism is futile, but that futility can be both entertaining and highly rewarding.
The Dregs of History
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History, as they say is written for the winners.
Equally, if we don't learn from history, we are condemned to repeat it.
And we learn more from our mistakes than from our successes.
So, blending those thoughts together, plus another one - that history isn't usually very funny unless a hanging, drawing and quartering tickles your fancy - George Fripley has decided to concentrate on profiling some characters in history who are every bit as evil and malicious as all the homicidal megalomaniacs, genocides and other adventurers who have made our countries what they are today, but have proved to be a thousand times less competent and/or nothing like as lucky.
So here you have Bartwald the Brain-damaged, Simon de Mentle, Quivering Edward, Corporal Ebenezer Scumme and their like who are object lessons in what happens to people whose ill-natured plans lead to gross irritation, murder and mayhem.
Learn from their lives, learn from their losing formulae, but learn above all that when you go down in history you had better not plummet as far as these guys.
These are the dregs of history - the ones you have to beat.
Available from Kindle - here
History, as they say is written for the winners.
Equally, if we don't learn from history, we are condemned to repeat it.
And we learn more from our mistakes than from our successes.
So, blending those thoughts together, plus another one - that history isn't usually very funny unless a hanging, drawing and quartering tickles your fancy - George Fripley has decided to concentrate on profiling some characters in history who are every bit as evil and malicious as all the homicidal megalomaniacs, genocides and other adventurers who have made our countries what they are today, but have proved to be a thousand times less competent and/or nothing like as lucky.
So here you have Bartwald the Brain-damaged, Simon de Mentle, Quivering Edward, Corporal Ebenezer Scumme and their like who are object lessons in what happens to people whose ill-natured plans lead to gross irritation, murder and mayhem.
Learn from their lives, learn from their losing formulae, but learn above all that when you go down in history you had better not plummet as far as these guys.
These are the dregs of history - the ones you have to beat.
