- Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Boxtree Ltd; 1st edition (31 Dec 1997)
- ISBN-10: 0752223828
- ISBN-13: 978-0752223827
- Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 15 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (41 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,193,177 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A Cubicles-Eye view of Bosses, Meetings, Management Fads & Other Workplace Afflictions by the creator of Dilbert. The Dilbert Principle is that the most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage - Management.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
This Book Excels at Pointing Out Organizational Stalls,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Dilbert Principle: A Cubicle's-Eye View of Bosses, Meetings, Management Fads and Other Workplace Afflictions (Hardcover)
My work involves helping company leaders identify the causes of "stalled" thinking in the organization. What impresses me about this book is how many of the causes Scott Adams has identified. The man is clearly a great observer of organizations. His crusade against "stalled" thinking (especially by the leaders) also means that others with keen insights send him their observations, as well. Future historians of the American corporation would do better to start with Scott Adams than most of the organizational theory and practice business books that have been written. His humor is excellent, because he is unerring in picking the right balloon to prick. As a management consultant, I regularly reread his chapter on management consultants to be sure that I am not behaving like the ones he describes. Keep these wonderful books and comic strips coming! Be sure to post the strips where they will get the most attention. Maybe you will help someone wake up in your leadership!
5.0 out of 5 stars
So real it is scary,
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This review is from: The Dilbert Principle (Hardcover)
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"
5.0 out of 5 stars
Adams delivers another slap in the face for office life,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Dilbert Principle (Hardcover)
As a recent convert to Dilbert I have been going through the books with a unstoppable hunger for all things cubicle, middle-management and especially dogbert. I have found this tome the absolute best of the lot and thoroughly recommend it to all - both seasoned Dilbert reader and those so far unacquainted with the world of.....well;the world - alike. The basic jokes behind the cartoons are amusing but the distinction between Dilbert and mediocre comics is that it is almost all true. Just look at the lists of e-mails that Adams gets from people who write in just to say how true it they all are. Pinned outside offices the world over by the lowliest temp to the director they appeal because Adams draws inspiration from the monotonous drudgery of office life and the beauty is that it hardly needs embellishment (aside from the hilarious catbert human resource manager and the other furred/scaled familiars) - it is just all so true to life. After reading a Dilbert book you wonder how it all got into such a silly state. Then you thank God it has - if not we wouldn't have Dilbert - buy this book.
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