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

Adams, Scott

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0887307876 ISBN 13: 9780887307874

Verlag: Harper Business, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

Texto en inglés. Tapa dura con sobrecubierta de editorial ilustrada. Sin subrayados ni anotaciones. Perfecto estado de conservación. DOES YOUR COMPANY PRACTICE THE DILBERT PRINCIPLE? - Is your CEOs office plastered with Mission Statements and change initiatives? - Does your boss confuse his laptop with an Etch-A-Sketch? - Are you asked for status reports on status reports? - Have bonuses been replaced with novelty items inscribed with the corporate logo? - Are idiots promoted because they have good hair? In a world of TQM reengineering, and empowered secretaries, Dilbert has become the poster boy of corporate America. Millions of office dwellers tack Scott Adamss 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 whove 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: worlds greatest fiction

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Reseña del editor

A collection of comic strips featuring the abuse-absorbing hero of Dilbert blends with lighthearted essays to provide a whimsical look at corporate culture, management trends, the information superhighway, and other absurdities of modern business. 100,000 first printing. $75,000 ad/promo. Tour.

Reseña del editor

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!

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Harper Business
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0887307876
• ISBN 13: 9780887307874
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352