The Dilbert Principle

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

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The Dilbert Principle

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

  • 3.33 ·
  • 3 Ratings
  • 5 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 6 Have read

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!

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Publisher
HarperBusiness
Language
English
Pages
336

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Cover of: Daibote fa ze
Daibote fa ze: shang ban yi yan tang = The Dilbert principle
1998, Jing dian chuan xun wen hua gu fen you xian gong si
in Chinese - Chu ban
Cover of: The Dilbert Principle
The Dilbert Principle
1997, Recorded Books
Audio cassette
Cover of: The Dilbert Principle
Cover of: The Dilbert Principle
The Dilbert Principle
1996, Boxtree
Hardcover
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Cover of: The Dilbert principle

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New York, NY, USA

Table of Contents

Foreword: Big opening
Introduction: Why is business so absurd?
Dilbert principle
Humiliation
Business communication
Great lines of management
Machiavellian methods
Employee strategies
Performance reviews
Pretending to work
Swearing: Key to success for women
How to get your way
Marketing and communications
Management consultants
Business plans
Engineers, scientists, programmers, and other odd people
Change
Budgeting
Sales
Meetings
Projects
Iso 9000
Downsizing
How to tell if your company is doomed
Reengineering
Team-building exercises
Leaders
New company model: OA5

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
650.1/3
Library of Congress
HD31 .A294 1996, HD31.A294 1996

Contributors

Designer
Caitlin Daniels
Copyright
United Feature Syndicate, Inc.
Dedicated to
Pam
Jacket Design
Lisa Beth Cohen
Cover Art and Illustrations
United Feature Syndicate, Inc.
Jacket Photo
Andy Freeburg
Creator
Scott Adams

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
viii, 336 p.
Number of pages
336
Dimensions
22 x x centimeters

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL964159M
Internet Archive
dilbertprinciple00adam_0
ISBN 10
0887307876
ISBN 13
9780887307874
LCCN
96000388
Library Thing
961
Goodreads
604228

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Most of the themes in my comic strip "Dilbert" involve workplace situations.
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