Don'T Step In The Leadership:A Dilbert Book

Don'T Step In The Leadership:A Dilbert Book

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"For the armies of American office workers, Dilbert is a reminder that they are not alone."--Chicago Tribune
"Cruel and incompetent bosses, plus the pervasive stupidity of people Adams calls 'in-duh-viduals,' are favorite targets in the strip, which appears...on the Internet, in best-selling books, and on refrigerator magnets, coffee mugs, desk calendars, software, neckties, and even underwear."--Playboy magazine
Does Dilbert creator Scott Adams have a hidden camera in your office--or is he just completely in tune with the inept managers, wacky office politics, and nonsensical leadership practices that seem to run wild at your company?
Stop looking for the camera. Dilbert has become a hugely successful strip because Adams feels your pain. How? Because this former employee of a major telecommunications company has been there. He's seen the leadership firsthand. And he knows that to successfully navigate the ludicrous world of business, you can't expect common sense to prevail, you need to keep a sense of humor, and above all, you must always look before you leap.
The strip's enormous popularity stems from the fact that its millions of readers easily identify with the crazy plots and wacky characters found within the corporate environment of collections like this one, Don't Step on the Leadership. Sure, most companies don't have a bespectacled engineer with a tie permanently curled up, a cynical talking dog, and a manager with two pointy tufts of hair. But it's the outrageous things Dilbert characters do and say that leave readers knowingly nodding their heads and, of course, laughing uproariously. The antics of Dilbert's cast are based not only on Adams' own corporate experiences, but on the more than 300 e-mails he receives each day about the office dramas of his devoted fans.

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Author:	Scott Adams
Paperback:	128 pages
Publisher:	Andrews McMeel Publishing
Publication Date:	March 01, 1999
Language:	English
ISBN:	0836278445
Product Length:	8.98 inches
Product Width:	8.63 inches
Product Height:	0.31 inches
Product Weight:	0.66 pounds
Package Length:	8.9 inches
Package Width:	8.5 inches
Package Height:	0.39 inches
Package Weight:	0.71 pounds
Average Customer Rating:	based on 16 reviews

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Average Customer Review: 4.0

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4 of 4 found the following review helpful:

I Stepped In It Oct 26, 2002
By Alan Attebery
"Don't Step In The Leadership" is a collection of Dilbert comic strips from 1998. Scott Adams has accurately captured the idiocracy of life that is called work. Whether it's the pointy-haired boss trying (and failing) to manage his employees or Catbert: Evil H.R. Director prescribing an anti-depressant drug for Alice, you will be amazed at how much this art imitates your life.

8 of 10 found the following review helpful:

Training Manual for Modern Management - Sad but True Aug 31, 1999

Adams, once again, proves that you can laugh at something not because it is funny, but because it is true. As comic relief for common cube dwellers, the reading of this book provides an excellent reason to delay (at least for a while)going "Postal" and providing what justice there may be found in corporate America. In the current competitive business environment, Scott's work also provides an excellent manual to be followed for those who wish to not only fit into established large business/government practices, but who wish to master and excel in policies and practices that are not readily comprehended by those with common sense.

7 of 9 found the following review helpful:

Usual Dilbert goodness Jul 13, 2001
By J. Gifford
I enjoyed this collection of Dilbert cartoons, as I do all of Scott Adams' compendiums. I can see some of Dilbert in me, and some of me in Dilbert (especially the bent tie), and easily recognize parallels between Dilbert's workplace and mine. I at least have an office and don't have to live with the cubicle dwellers and my boss is somewhat brighter than Dilbert's, but it's still scary how realistic Dilbert's world is.

I would have given this book 5 stars except all of these cartoons appear, in sequence, in my 2001 Dilbert desk calendar, so I've already read many of them and I have no reason now to flip to the next day on my calendar. That's almost Dilbert-esque, in a way.

6 of 8 found the following review helpful:

Too close to reality for comfort! May 23, 2000
By John Peter O'connor
Despite a limited group of characters and settings, Scott Adams continues to find funny situations for his characters. Once again, over one hundred pages full of Dilbert cartoons and the bunch of characters that we all know so well.

Dilbert and his co-workers continue to fight their battle against pointy haired bosses, Dogbert and Catbert. My personal favourite in this collection is Dilbert's discovery that the Moon is populated by the women who love engineers but really, the whole collection is great.

These cartoons age very well compared to some strips in the newspapers and they certianly stand several readings. Highly recommended.

1 of 1 found the following review helpful:

If you love Dilbert, you can't help but appreciate every collection, including this one! Oct 02, 2009
By R Schmidt
This edition of Dilbert features the collection of cartoons printed from January to October, 1998. It's the traditional "smaller" collection, at 127 pages. Wally, Ratbert, Dogbert, the Pointy-haired boss, Dilbert's mom, and, of course, Alice... they're all here!

Need some examples?

[Catbert, the HR Director, speaking to Wally]
Catbert - "The company is giving free flu shots, Wally. The shots will be delivered by wealthy stockholders who will hunt you down and shoot you with flu darts."
Wally - "At least I won't get the flu, right?"
Catbert - "You're probably thinking of the flu PREVENTION shots."

[Wally, studded with darts, is complaining to the boss]
Pointy-haired boss - "No one likes being hunted down and shot with flu darts, Wally. But remember: companies are managed for the benefit of stockholders, not employees."
Wally - "I own stock. It's in my 401(K) account."
Pointy-haired boss - "I'm not supposed to tell you, but none of that is real" (p. 60).

and

[Dilbert talking to secretary]
Dilbert - "I need to document your procedures. It's an ISO 9000 requirement. So... the engineers submit their time cards and then you do what?"
Secretary - "I put them in a pile until I'm sure they're all here. Then I move them to the magic cylinder."
Dilbert - "The trash can?"
Secretary - "No. It's a magic cylinder. I put my work in there and by morning it's gone."
Dilbert - "I've been giving you my time cards for five years."
Secretary - "No one has complained yet."
Dilbert thinking, as he walks away - "After today, I am NOT rounding to the nearest fifteen minutes" (p. 106).

Engineers!

Need more? Don't forget this mega-volume: Dilbert 2.0: 20 Years of Dilbert.

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