- Hardcover: 336 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd; 1st Edition edition (16 Oct 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0887307876
- ISBN-13: 978-0887307874
- Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (41 customer reviews)
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- #97 in Books > Humour > Comic Strips > Dilbert
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The creator of "Dilbert," the fastest-growing comic strip in the nation (syndicated in nearly 1000 newspapers), takes a look at corporate America in all its glorious lunacy. Lavishly illustrated with "Dilbert" strips, these hilarious essays on incompetent bosses, management fads, bewildering technological changes and so much more, will make anyone who has ever worked in an office laugh out loud in recognition.
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 through "Dilbert," his enormously popular comic strip. In Dilbert, the potato-shaped, abuse-absorbing hero of the strip, Adams has given voice to the millions of Americans buffeted by the many adversities of the workplace.
Now he takes the next step, attacking corporate culture head-on in this lighthearted series of essays. Packed with more than 100 hilarious cartoons, these 25 chapters explore the zeitgeist of ever-changing management trends, overbearing egos, management incompetence, bottomless bureaucracies, petrifying performance reviews, three-hour meetings, the confusion of the information superhighway 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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Format: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!
Format: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"
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"
Format: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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Fun, Though Rather Repetitive
I originally enjoyed the Dilbert cartoons and their cynical look at bosses, management etc., but this book is too repetitive and Dilbert's inability to express his feelings and... Read more
Published on 20 April 2001
The reality of the work place revealed
Being young and impressionable, I always thought work must be fun, or why else would everyone spend so much time there? Read more
Published on 3 Mar 2001 by stephenk101@hotmail.com
Good, but could use some improvement.
This book is supposed to be a mixture of words and comics. Unfortunately, some comics are too good for Adams to resist: he just can't use them only once. Read more
Published on 26 July 1999
This Book Excels at Pointing Out Organizational Stalls
My work involves helping company leaders identify the causes of "stalled" thinking in the organization. Read more
Published on 30 Mar 1999
Humor with a sting of reality
Anyone who has worked for a large, bureaucratic corporation will love this and other Dilbert books. My cubicle at work is plastered with Dilbert comics. Read more
Published on 23 Jan 1999
Funny, as always
If there are two people on the planet who should be praised and showered with gifts, they are Dave Barry and Scott Adams, the two funniest writers alive. Read more
Published on 24 Nov 1998
Funny, if you've escaped
My wife gave me this book when it first came out in hardcover. At the time I worked in a cubicle for a large international corporation and had a boss we all called... Read more
Published on 26 Oct 1998
Excellent....hard to put down!
If you are ever so frustrated with your workplace and bosses, this IS the book to read. You will never feel alone again!
Published on 19 Oct 1998
One of the funniest books I've ever read
I work in a cube farm, I've been restructured, re-engineered, am part of a TQM team which is customer service oriented, market driven, technologically focussed. Read more
Published on 12 Aug 1998
If you reengineer DILBERT you get BLIRTED
No, I don't know what BLIRTED means either. I think that Scott Adams is a sad misguided perverted misfit with a serious dog and rat fetish. Read more
Published on 8 April 1998
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