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

Adams, Scott

ISBN 10: 0887307876 / ISBN 13: 9780887307874

Published by HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd, New York, NY, 1996

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DJ price has been clipped. first edition. from the inner flap, "DOES YOUR COMPANY PRACTICE THE DILBERT PRINCIPLE?" *Is your CEO's office plastered with Mission Statements and "Change" initiatives? *Does your boss confuse his laptop with an Etch-a-Sketch(tm)? *Are you asked for status reports on status reports? *Have bonuses been replaced with novelty items inscribed with the company logo? *Are idiots promoted because they have good hair? 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.". Seller Inventory # 000470

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Dilbert Principle: A Cubicle's-Eye View ...

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd, New York, NY

Publication Date: 1996

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Dust Jacket Condition: New

Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis:

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!

About the Author:

Scott Adams is the creator of Dilbert, the comic strip that now appears in 1,550 newspapers worldwide. His first two hardcover business books, The Dilbert Principle and Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook, have sold more than two million copies and have appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for a combined total of sixty weeks.