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The Dilbert Principle: A Cubicle's-Eye View of Bosses, Meetings, Management Fads & Other Workplace Afflictions

 
 
The Dilbert Principle: A Cubicle's-Eye View of Bosses, Meetings, Management Fads & Other Workplace Afflictions
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The Dilbert Principle: A Cubicle's-Eye View of Bosses, Meetings, Management Fads & Other Workplace Afflictions

The Dilbert Principle: The most ineffective workers will be systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage -- management.

Since 1989, Scott Adams has been illustrating this principle each day, lampooning the corporate world in Dilbert, his enormously popular comic strip. In the potato-shaped, abuse-absorbing Dilbert, he has given voice to the millions of Americans buffeted by the many adversities of the workplace.

He has now taken the next step, attacking corporate culture head-on in this insanely insightful management book. Packed with 400 Dilbert  cartoons, the book takes a look at corporate America in all its glorious lunacy, exploring its zeitgeist of ever-changing management fads, overbearing egos, management incompetence, bottomless bureaucracies, petrifying performance reviews, information traffic jams and more. With sharp eyes, and an even sharper wit, Adams exposes and skewers the bizarre absurdities of everyday corporate life. Readers will be convinced that he must be spying on their bosses, The Dilbert Principle rings so true!

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Product Details:
Author: Scott Adams
Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Publication Date: June 04, 1997
Language: English
ISBN: 0887308589
Package Length: 8.1 inches
Package Width: 6.1 inches
Package Height: 1.1 inches
Package Weight: 0.6 pounds
Average Customer Rating: based on 110 reviews
 
 

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5It's how the world works...  May 18, 2010
I first read this book many years ago, when I was much younger and had a much more naive outlook on the world. It made me chuckle, at times even laugh out loud, and I did recognize a lot from my different employers. As I've grown older and more experienced, some concepts from this book stayed with me, and as frightening as it is; it's an accurate description of how the world works.

Yes, managers do get their positions because they have the right look. "He's got good hair, we think it will turn silver." Yes, people do get promoted to their level of incompetence. It's a way to control damage. That's why your boss is and always will be an idiot.

The Dilbert Principle might not help you with your hair turning silver; you'd need another type of product for that, but it does help with handling everyday stress and frustration in the workplace. When you can see things from the comical side, it's not all that bad anymore.

5So real it is scary  Jan 01, 2010
This book is so real that it is scary. You can tell that Scott Adams has spent time. His description of cube life is still relevant today.

I have been trying to justify the Peter Principle and could not make it fit but after reading this book all things became clear. It is impossible to keep a straight face in meetings with out seeing the different types of personalities doing their thing. I can even anticipate what they are going to say and the reactions.

Usually as most books and movies you recognize everyone but yourself. The most obnoxious person will laugh at his stereotype or just not get the point when it comes to movies and books. However this book is scary in the fact that I could see myself when Scott was describing engineers. And it took a little while to realize what he was talking about the ringing device that knows when to break your concentration.

I am going to leave a copy on QA's desk.

MY next must read is "Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook"


3Pages damaged on new book  Dec 19, 2009
Any Dilbert book is great but this was supposed to be a new book and interior pages were stained. I had to ship it out in a gift box so I didn't have time to return it or get an exchange.

5Simple Explanation to Corporate Life  Oct 30, 2009
This book is a good summary of your work life with a killer sense of humor. Only disturbing fact is that everything written in this book is true.

3good book, good condition, good delivery time  Jul 12, 2009
Received it promptly, book was in good condition but the pages were made of low quality paper - dull n thin; you get what you pay for!!

 
 
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