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Loading... The Dilbert Principle: A Cubicle's-Eye View of Bosses, Meetings,…by Scott Adams
Rated: B (  ) jmcdbooks | Jan 27, 2013 |  Good humor, as always. ( ) addunn3 | Oct 1, 2012 | Fragezeichen: Das Buch ist wirklich sehr informativ und klasse geschriebe. Nur wer ist Alexander Vier, ein Autor? r1hard | Nov 22, 2009 | 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. (  ) BookAngel_a | May 31, 2008 | Describes life at many office jobs . . . or any job at which one's boss is a pointy-haired moron. Good for cynical laughs. ( ) June6Bug | Feb 27, 2008 | no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0887307876, Hardcover)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-engineering, rightsizing and Total Quality Management some strategies for fighting back, er, coping. Forced to work long hours, with no hope of a raise? Adams offers tips on maintaining parity in compensation. Along the way, Adams explains what ISO 9000 really is and assesses the irresistibility of female engineers. The breath-taking cynicism of the strip should prepare readers for the author's no-holds-barred attack on management fads, large organizations, pointless bureaucracy and sadistic rule-makers who glory in control of office supplies. Readers of the on-line Dilbert Newsletter are familiar with the kind of e-mail Adams receives from his readers -- and may even have sent a few of those missives themselves. Along with illustrative strips, e-mail messages provide excruciating examples of corporate behavior which compel the reader to agree with Adams when he insists that "People are idiots". The final chapter offers a model for would-be successful businesses to follow: the OA5 model. It's introduced with little fanfare, no outrageous promises and just the right amount of self-deprecation. (retrieved from Amazon Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:32:41 -0500) 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) |
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