On This Page
Description
Why do all modern managers do the same bizarre things? Are these methods taught in business schools? Do managers learn by watching more experienced managers? Is it the result of mentoring? None of the above! Every manager learns from the same source: Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook. This valuable management handbook teaches new managers how to transform themselves from bitter and bewildered "little people" into fully functioning, paradigm-spewing management zombies. In this show more indispensable guide, Dogbert reveals the many vital skills needed by managers in their daily lives, including: The power of verbal instructions-sound like a boss while maintaining complete deniability! Empty promises of promotion-enjoy all the motivational benefits with none of the costs! Pretending to care-learn to hear without listening! Company newsletter-communicate without the risk of conveying information! Competition-experience the joy of setting your people against one another! Decision making-be a leader without making any decisions! Incentives-inspire employees by giving them worthless knick-knacks! Remember: Leadership isn't something you're born with. It's something you learn by listening to Dogbert tapes. A world-class consultant and bestselling author, Dogbert has spent much of his life giving advice to gullible people with disposable incomes. His brain has many more crevices than yours, so you'd better do what he says. show lessTags
Recommendations
Member Reviews
Dilbert strikes again - this time dealing with things that Managers need in their daily lives - including:
Pretending to care - learn how to hear without listening.
Making decisions - be a leader without making any.
I love Dilbert - no, edit that - I LOVE Dogbert!
I read this intently to get ideas to torment my long suffering staff even more!!!
Pretending to care - learn how to hear without listening.
Making decisions - be a leader without making any.
I love Dilbert - no, edit that - I LOVE Dogbert!
I read this intently to get ideas to torment my long suffering staff even more!!!
Standard Dilbert stuff, several bits to make you chuckle but nothing that leaves you gasping for air.
Read this one last week in a couple of evenings. I was not overly impressed. I never read the Dilbert comic, so it was all new to me. But I found the sarcasm and digs at corporate life to be generally unfunny. Of course, the book is dated as well, having been written in the mid-nineties. There were a few things that made me chuckle but this is not a book I would recommend.
Classic Dilbert/Dogbert
ISBN 0-7522-2410-7
Members
- Recently Added By
Author Information
199+ Works 34,778 Members
Scott Adams, Cartoonist Scott Adams was born and raised in Windham, New York in the Catskill Mountains. He received a B.A. in economics from Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY and an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley. He is also a certified hypnotist. Adams worked in a bank for eight years and, while a bank teller, was robbed twice at show more gunpoint. He also worked for Pacific Bell for nine years and describes both jobs as "humiliating and low paying jobs." It was during this time, that Adams created the character Dilbert. He was entertaining himself during meetings by drawing insulting cartoons of his co-workers and bosses. In 1988, he mailed some sample comic strips featuring Dilbert to some major cartoon syndicates. He was offered a contract and Dilbert was launched in approximately fifty papers in 1989. Adams began working on Dilbert full time as well as speaking, writing, doing interviews, and designing artwork for licensed products. Dilbert is published in over 1,200 newspapers and has a hard cover business book called "The Dilbert Principle." (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Some Editions
Awards and Honors
Distinctions
Series
Common Knowledge
- Canonical title*
- Dogbert. Méthodes ultra secrètes pour diriger une entreprise
- Original title
- Dogbert's Management Handbook
- Original publication date
- 1996
- First words
- Background: This book will teach you the Dogbert Management Method.
Chapter 1: In an ideal world, your job as manager would include setting goals and acquiring the resources to achieve them. - Quotations
- Leadership isn't something you're born with. It's something you learn by reading Dogbert books.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Abuse is a form of recognition. And recognition is what every employee wants.
- Original language*
- Anglais (Etats-Unis) (Etats-Unis)
*Some information comes from Common Knowledge in other languages. Click "Edit" for more information.
Classifications
Statistics
- Members
- 1,556
- Popularity
- 14,690
- Reviews
- 7
- Rating
- (3.63)
- Languages
- 11 — Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook
- ISBNs
- 22
- ASINs
- 3