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The Dilbert Principle: Cubicle's-Eye View of Bosses, Meetings, Management Fads, and Other Workplace Afflictions
The Dilbert Principle Cubicle'sEye View of Bosses Meetings Management Fads and Other Workplace Afflictions Author:Scott Adams A collection of comic strips featuring the abuse-absorbing hero of Dilbert blends with lighthearted essays to provide a whimsical look at corporate culture, management trends, the information superhighway, and other absurdities of modern business.
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many funny and insightful comments on life as a knowledge worker... cubicle life, rewarding idiots, compensation problems, incentivizing work, budgeting, etc with many related cartoons disbursed between quirky commentary and bulleted lists
Margit W. reviewed The Dilbert Principle: Cubicle's-Eye View of Bosses, Meetings, Management Fads, and Other Workplace Afflictions on
Funny must-read for anyone who thinks works at a place where "they" are always thwarting advancement, civility and common sense.
Forget the Harvard MBA programs... every manager or supervisor (who wishes to not be referred to as a stupidvisor) should read and be tested on this prior to entering the workforce.
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Adams worked in a cubicle at Pacific Bell for nine years. From there he went on to pen the wildly popular cartoon Dilbert, which appears in over 700 newspapers. He is also the author of six Dilbert books (e.g., Bring Me the Head of Willy the Mailboy, Andrews & McMeel, 1995) and an electronic Dilbert newsletter, has a Web site on the Internet, and is a frequent speaker at business gatherings. His latest book of humorous essays and observations elaborates on the corporate scenarios depicted in his cartoons. The "Dilbert Principle" asserts that the most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management. Chapters include such titles as "Machiavellian Methods," "Pretending To Work," and "Engineers, Scientists, Programmers, and Other Odd People." The book is replete with such advice as "Never walk down the hall without a document in your hand" and "The worth of any project is how it will sound on your resume." He stresses the importance of using the word paradigm as often as possible, discusses the value of computers in pretending to be busy, and recommends that workers awaiting performance reviews openly display copies of Soldier of Fortune magazine on their desks. This cynical, satirical, all-too-familiar glimpse of corporate life is unabashed management bashing and is very funny. Recommended for all humor and business collections.
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Cute book every office worker should read someday!
