The Dilbert Principle: A Cubicle's-Eye View of Bosses, Meetings, Management Fads & Other Workplace Afflictions

by Scott Adams

Hardcover, 1996

Status

Available

Call number

650.13

Publication

Harper-Collins (1996), Edition: 1st, 336 pages

Description

In a world of TQM, reengineering, and empowered secretaries. Dilbert has become the poster boy of corporate America. Millions of office dwellers tack Scott Adams's comic strip to their walls when murdering the boss is not an acceptable option. After seventeen years of working in a cubicle and reading thousands of e-mail messages from readers who've been "downsized", "rightsized", "flattened", and put in charge of "quality teams", Scott Adams can no longer restrict himself to a single artistic medium. Now, in an unabashed attempt to cash in on the lucrative business book market, Scott brings us The Dilbert Principle. In twenty-six provocative, illustrated chapters, Scott Adams reveals the secrets of management in every company, including swearing your way to success, faking quality, business plans: world's greatest fiction, trolls in the accounting department, humiliation as a management tool, selling bad products to stupid people, and more!… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member AlexTheHunn

Scott Adams is one of my favorite humorists. His incisive, perceptive observations skewer the world of corporate America and beyond. He manages to accomplish this without being too abrasive or mean - no small feat, there. By holding up the mirror to the foibles that plague the business world, Adams

offers some means of improvement.

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LibraryThing member nevusmom

Thank you, God, that I don't work in a cubicle.

LibraryThing member DCEFrance

I have been out of the "office world" for too long. This book just didn't interest me.

LibraryThing member Lyn.S.Soussi

Excellent as ever. I was given this book by the company I worked for as a performance reward! I'm sure Dilbert has something to say about that somewhere...

LibraryThing member Conina

Dilbert Cartoonist, Scott Adams' first foray into the "business book". He expands on themes that have made his comic strip one of the most popular strips today. His observational humour is interspersed with relevant cartoons as well as emails from his many fans detailing their real-life experiences

with pointy-haired bosses.

Very Funny

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LibraryThing member June6Bug

Describes life at many office jobs . . . or any job at which one's boss is a pointy-haired moron. Good for cynical laughs.

LibraryThing member franoscar

Amusing & silly. At the end he talks about how things could be better. He talks about all the typical management stuff.

LibraryThing member BookAngel_a

This book was a nice read for me since I'm recently back in the corporate world. It's amusing with practical advice for office workers mixed into the humor and sarcasm. I've learned a few things, I admit. And it makes me thankful I don't work for a huge company, when I see what some employees have

to tolerate.

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LibraryThing member Cecilturtle

A management view from the employee's perspective (mine has changed since I'm a pointy haired-boss...)

LibraryThing member francescadefreitas

This was funny,but I found it tedious to try and read in one sitting. It took me about a month of dipping to finish it.

LibraryThing member AliceAnna

A must-read for every management-type. Alas, most won't read and wouldn't understand if they did. This is probably the truest book about business that's ever been written -- which makes it hilarious and scary at the same time. -1997

LibraryThing member ashishg

I knew that Scott Adams has long running hilarious Dilbert comic series. I also knew, from his blog, that he can think quite differently from most people, and that he can amazing breadth and depth on varieties of idea. Having read this book, I can also confirm that he can write a long satire very

well. This book, as name says, is humourous look at corporate bureaucracy. Those who can recognize corporate culture as such will finds themselves nodding in agreement often. Those who don't, will probably succeed better in the corporate world. As satires go, this caricatures certain things to laugh at them, but for most part book is quite realistic. His writings is self-deprecating and self-lauding at times, which works well for his writing style. Book is 30% text, 50% cartoons, and 20% real-life letters. Overall a fun read!

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LibraryThing member cartomancer

Scott Adams is hilarious. This book actually helped me deal with a bad boss, too, so that rocks.

LibraryThing member unclebob53703

The absolute truth about big business from the point of the schmuck working for it. Hilariously written, a crapload of Dilbert cartoons throughout.

LibraryThing member BenKline

A funny take on corporate (America). I've always enjoyed the Dilbert comic strips and this is much in the same vein (including said comic strips). A good look at the idiocy of cubicles, managers, and the office lifestyle.

LibraryThing member Cheryl_in_CC_NV

Meh. I skimmed it. Thank goodness I don't feel its relevance. I did chuckle at some of the examples submitted by fans to Adams.

LibraryThing member johnclaydon

Not just a cartoon book. About half text.

I finally figured it out. Adams comes off as angry, bigoted, and anti-intellectual. I thought that was just a pose. No, that is really what he is. Yes, Europeans, he really does despise you. He is a ranting xenophobic demagogue.

LibraryThing member JoanDudzinski

For anyone who has ever worked in a cubicle or spent too much time in meetings, this book highlights some of the non-sensical happenings of the workplace. Although first published in 1996, it is still relevant today. As stated in the book description, "hilarious essays on incompetent bosses,

management fads, bewildering technological changes."

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LibraryThing member BizCoach

A surprisingly insightful look at good and bad business practices through Dilbert cartoons

LibraryThing member mykl-s

If I had a separate tag for "humor," this book would well qualify.

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