The Dilbert Principle: A Cubicle's-Eye View of Bosses, Meetings, Management Fads & Other Workplace Afflictions
by Scott Adams
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published
June 4th 1997
by Collins
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Paperback, 352 pages
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0887308589
(isbn13: 9780887308581)
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You loved the comic strip; now read the business advice.
Or should that be anti-business advice? Scott Adams provides the hapless victim of re-en...more
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In the top three best books I've ever read!! Timeless cyncism applicable to almost any situation. A must read!!
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From about 2002-2007, I believe the Daily Show gave the most hard hitting and reliable news on TV. The reason was because the mainstream media was afraid to go against the zeitgeist of the patriotic anti-terror hawkish government policies. The Daily Show, being a humor show, could say whatever the heck it felt like safe behind the armor of freedom of expression and comedy. So, John Stewart poked holes in ridiculous policy, and was one of the few places with reasonable analysis of global affai...more
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Read in March, 2008
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Steve Shouprecommends it for: Military officers, business managers, Dilbert fans
Have you ever read a book and had that little voice in the back of your head say: "holy crap, this book is describing my life"? I haven't read too many books on business or management, but the further I delved into this book the more I realized that Scott Adams is describing my chain of command.
I work for a certain unit in Germany that is tasked with training units to deploy to Iraq or Afghanistan. On paper we look great, but in reality we might as well dig a hole, throw a bunch o...more
I work for a certain unit in Germany that is tasked with training units to deploy to Iraq or Afghanistan. On paper we look great, but in reality we might as well dig a hole, throw a bunch o...more
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Read in January, 1997
recommends it for:
jaded tech and/or office workers
I got into the Dilbert comics sometime during high school. I was working part-time in the head office of a construction company, alphabetizing invoices and de-stapling paperwork. Gimpy stuff. "Office bitch" type stuff. The hours and pay were good though and my boss looked almost exactly like the Dilbert Boss -- but with a mustache and without being an idiot. Just the same, everyday's three panel strip clearly illustrated some incident that had recently occurred.
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Read in January, 1999
This book is a must-read to all humankind.
Se você acha as tirinhas do Dilbert engraçadas, saiba que os textos do autor (Scott Adams) são 10 vezes mais engraçados. O livro é tipo um Stand Up de 300 páginas, genial desde o prefácio.
Ele deveria ser leitura obrigatória para todo mundo que faz um curso de humanas. Nada explica tão bem a humanidade quanto a teoria da evolução dos idiotas. Ele aborda ainda aspectos como trabalho e gestão empresarial, com direito a dicas essenciais c...more
Se você acha as tirinhas do Dilbert engraçadas, saiba que os textos do autor (Scott Adams) são 10 vezes mais engraçados. O livro é tipo um Stand Up de 300 páginas, genial desde o prefácio.
Ele deveria ser leitura obrigatória para todo mundo que faz um curso de humanas. Nada explica tão bem a humanidade quanto a teoria da evolução dos idiotas. Ele aborda ainda aspectos como trabalho e gestão empresarial, com direito a dicas essenciais c...more
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Read in January, 2001
The book is fun and replete with Dilbert comics that punctuate Scott Adams' view of the corporate landscape. It is a light, toung-in-cheek treatse of the managerial world seen through the eyes of a computer tech. Disclamer here, I am one-although probably not of Dilbert's caliber. The last chapter of the book however is very serious and should be a must read for all corporate executives. OA5 (Out At 5) should be part of every corporate standard operating procedure. The premise is that produc...more
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I picked up this book while home in the states on vacation one time while I was an expatriate living & working in Moscow. It had caught my eye as a new release in the bookstore in O'hare airport, and I laughed my way back across the Atlantic during the 9 hour flight to Moscow. (I can never sleep on planes anyway). The neat part about it was that the English / concepts were easy enough that I was able to share it with a few of the Muscovites I worked with, who also really enjoyed this book
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Read in March, 2008
This book provides a detailed and scholarly (ha ha) explanation of life in a cubicle at a big company office. It is insightful and largely accurate with more emphasis on explaining the general principles of business management as they appear from their fruits than on the theories that are used.
Read with the caution that there is occasionally a vulgar description for the sake of emphasizing a point.
Read with the caution that there is occasionally a vulgar description for the sake of emphasizing a point.
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funny.. especially for those who worked in the corporate world.. stuck in our cubicles from nine to five L-)
inspiration how to annoy ur boss and colleague (and survive.. well i do hope so, for ur sake) =P
and there's sum good advice on how we can (ab)use the stupidity of the average costumer :D
"its basically just another marketing book.. damn i've been tricked!!! (again) siighh..*
inspiration how to annoy ur boss and colleague (and survive.. well i do hope so, for ur sake) =P
and there's sum good advice on how we can (ab)use the stupidity of the average costumer :D
"its basically just another marketing book.. damn i've been tricked!!! (again) siighh..*
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Read in April, 2007
recommends it for:
Rochelle Comeaux
In chapters that move from "Great Lies of Management" to "Pretending to Work" to "How to Get Your Way" Scott Adams details a cynical and sometimes surreal view of management and its operations, offering cubicle workers methods to deal with them effectively. Adams interweaves Dilbert comics with discussion about different aspects of management.
management practices.
management practices.
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Read in April, 2007
recommends it for:
The immediate work force
Dilbert is the geek all of us technocrats wish we were. Scott Adams does not take the workplace seriously. In this guide to administrators, bureaucrats, and office politics, he weaves an irreverent combination of comics and short explanations that should be read by everyone who works for an administrator, supervisor, or boss in an office setting.
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Read in July, 2002
Good reads - Gives serious perspective as Scott sees it.
Bottomline remains for Corporates numbers are just numbers - be it # of employees or # of hours they put in etc. Everything needs to be measured and adhered to standards which can always be circumvented(as they are) - This all makes Scotty at ease to poke fun at those honchos.
Bottomline remains for Corporates numbers are just numbers - be it # of employees or # of hours they put in etc. Everything needs to be measured and adhered to standards which can always be circumvented(as they are) - This all makes Scotty at ease to poke fun at those honchos.
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Read in September, 2007
An excellent collection of satire regarding life in a cube farm. With all of the meetings, reports, and documentation, how can anyone actually get any work done? And don't forget all of the drama and politics of management and org charts - also having hardly anything to do with work. Truth is proven to be funnier than fiction.
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Wer gefestigt genug ist, um dieses Buch ohne langwierigen moralisch-psychischen Schaden zu überstehen, wird viel Spaß haben und einiges für das berufliche Leben lernen. Leider ist das alles bittersüß, denn viele Situationen wird man wiedererkennen und dabei eben auch erkennen, welche Zeitverschwendung Arbeiten eigentlich ist.
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Read in January, 2006
Well, as a non-office person, I was horrified at the premise for this book. I consulted w/ corporate inhabitants, and they assure me that Dilbert has it just right - hence the popularity of the cartoon strip. Which makes me thrilled that I am not an office person.
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Read in January, 2000
I'd consider this one of my Top 10 books on business. I'm not kidding. Scott Adams' cartoons lampoon many ridiculous, yet common, business practices. Some needless language and such -- only for adults -- but a funny and truly applicable read.
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Read in September, 2008
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My dadrecommends it for: Anybody working in a office
I found the comics and just bizzar responces and office behavior. I couldent realy connect with the book, because I dont work in an office yet but I guess if I read this book in ten years i could relate to it more.
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Read in September, 2008
I wouldn't say it was a BAD book, but the fact that he reused a number of strips for different concepts was a bit of a turn-off. Entertaining to a degree, but I don't know that I'd read it again.
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Read in March, 2008
I hadn't read this in a long time. Pretty good. Scott Adams may be a jerk, but he is (or at least, was) a funny jerk. And I've never even worked in a corporate cubicle.
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Read in February, 2008
recommended to Mae by:
Christine McCafferty/Graham Shaw
I didn't always get the Dilbert cartoons, but after working for a while in a corporate world I am beginning to appreciate them more. Some of them are very funny!
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