Synopsis This is a collection of comic strips geared toward the disgruntled office worker in all of us. A funny look at the modern working world, "The Dilbert Principle" is also filled with enough insight and truth to be more than useful, and ought to be read by managers everywhere. For non-managers, the book offers an understanding of why your company is screwed up and allows you a good laugh at your boss's expense.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 1997-06-01 | | Edition Description: | Reprint |
| Size | | Height: | 8.3 in | | Width: | 6.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 12.0 oz |
Publisher's Note "Dilbert", Scott Adams' enormously popular comic strip, has given voice to the millions of Americans buffeted by the many adversities of the workplace. Packed with 400 "Dilbert" cartoons, this insanely insightful management book takes a look at corporate America in all its glorious lunacy, exploring its zeitgeist of ever-changing management fads, overbearing egos, bottomless bureaucracies, and more.
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!
Industry Reviews "[Scott Adams] is the pre-eminent business thinker of the late 20th century." Hammer
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