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Now in paperback, this is an inside view of bosses, meetings, management fads and other workplace afflictions. Examining bizarre and hilarious situations in the world of work with growing absurdity, Adams reveals the secrets of management, including swearing one's way to the top, selling bad products to stupid people, trolls in accounts and more.

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5.0 out of 5 stars So good they should ban it, 29 Nov 2004

By	Martin Turner "Martin Turner" (Birmingham, England) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER)

Books like this really shouldn't be allowed. They impart dangerous information to receptive minds and reveal things about management that a whole industry has been labouring for years to keep hidden.

The chapter on writing your own appraisal, for example, is very, very dangerous. I have never allowed any of my staff to see it, although I did make use of it when preparing my own appraisal for my boss's signature.

Simple tricks like the 'big picture manouvre' are just too good and useful to be dished out in paperback format.

Scott Adams takes 'the Peter Principle' into an entirely new space. Instead of writing about managers who have been promoted to their level of incompetence, he takes on whole corporate cultures which have grown to their level of incompetence. Everybody who has ever recommended 'concentrating our assets across the board' or, indeed, 'zooming in on the big picture', ought to read this book. Everybody who has ever considered punishing staff for having poor morale should read it. And every pointy haired manager who believes that anything he doesn't understand can't be very difficult should read it.

But workers? They should not be allowed to read it. It should be removed from their bookshelves and libraries. People buying this book online should have to prove that they are management grades before they complete their purchases.

Books like this are just too dangerous.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Probably the best book ever written about management, 6 Oct 2001

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..This is not another book of cartoons. If all you want is a comic book, or if you simply have a limited attention span, then look elsewhere.

The 'Dilbert' strip has satirised management stupidity for many years, and has done so very accurately. Most of the ideas come from the e-mails sent to author Scott Adams by readers relating real life stories of office life.

What Adams has done here is to distil the wisdom that comes from observing these absurdities. This book doesn't just poke fun, it offers commonsense advice about how to run an office more efficiently and more humanely. Humour is a very effective vehicle for teaching these lessons, and the result here is arguably the best book ever written about management.

Most management books are rubbish. They are humourless and, as often as not, merely promote some passing fad in management theory. You always see them at airport bookstalls ("20 ways to do this" or "10 magic formulas for that"). If you are a manager in an office, do yourself a favour and buy this instead. Also read the sequels, "Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook" and "The Dilbert Future". You'll have a good laugh (sometimes, painfully, at your own expense) and, who knows, you might even become a better manager.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Workplace wisdom from the cubicle king, 11 Jan 2003

By	C. M. Perkins (Stirling, Scotland.) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

Most people who work in an office can identify with Dilbert, the pointy-haired boss and all the other characters in the cartoon strip. You won't be disappointed with this collection.

In addition, you get Scott Adams observations on all the usual aspects of life in the workplace (just as funny as the cartoons) and, often the funniest bits, excerpts of e-mails from readers about real-life cubicle idiocy.

Get some relief from the tedium and the madness of working in an office, buy this book.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Scott Adams, the greatest business guru since Drucker
A pithy explanation of how modern corporations work. I read this years ago and was about to give my copy away, but decided to have a last look at it and I'm glad I did... Read more

Published 3 months ago by Ross

5.0 out of 5 stars Should replace the induction manual
As a practical guide to how modern business works, this is pretty much essential. Yes, it's funny (so funny that in places I hurt with laughter) but it's deadly serious too... Read more

Published 21 months ago by Ray Blake

5.0 out of 5 stars You must buy this is you work in an office (or ever have done)
I read this book in 2001, and every so often even now in 2007 I burst out laughing as I remember one of his comments. Read more

Published on 6 Feb 2007 by Mr. N. Molyneux

4.0 out of 5 stars Good, but "The Dilbert Future" is better.
This book is quite simply a comic way of looking at management stupidity.
I think the phrase "it's funny because it's true" might as well have been invented for this book... Read more

Published on 30 Nov 2006 by theshiresuk

5.0 out of 5 stars So real it is scary
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. Read more

Published on 7 Jul 2005 by bernie

4.0 out of 5 stars Insightful snapshot into the world of management
Non-stop laughs await the reader of this brilliant work. Scott Adams has an incredible ability to detect the absurd in the world of corporations and management and turn it into... Read more

Published on 8 Oct 2004 by Jack Feeney-Author / Analyst

4.0 out of 5 stars Better look at reality
The first of Scott Adams' books I have read, that will probably make me buy a lot more. Incredible way of describing situations in the corporate world will certainly give you a... Read more

Published on 27 Jul 2001

1.0 out of 5 stars Learn the art of shutting up, Scott!
Your cartoons can be hilarious, Scott. They can depict real life in a funny way. But learn when to stop! This book got tiresome after the first 30 pages. Read more

Published on 3 Jul 2001 by byawk@hotmail.com

4.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious but drawn out
This book was up to Scott Adams's usual standard, and therefore very funny. Unfortunately, it was a little bit on the long side, and even Adams's brand of humour wears thin by... Read more

Published on 8 Oct 2000 by howard.simon@talk21.com

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