Customer Reviews
Should replace the induction manual - By: Ray Blake, 13 Oct 2007 
As a practical guide to how modern business works, this is pretty much essential. Yes, it's funny (so funny thatin places I hurt with laughter) but it's deadly serious too.
As well as reading some of the wittiest cartoon strips ever, you'll absorb some deep wisdom & get plenty of practical ideas for making the corporate life more bearable.
You must buy this is you work in an office (or ever have done) - By: Mr. N. Molyneux, 06 Feb 2007 I read this bookin 2001, & every so often even nowin 2007 I burst out laughing as I remember one of his comments. If you have ever workedin an office, particularly for a large company, you will find this hilarious. The other thing about it is that although it is supposedly a joke, there is a lot of truthin it, & it can actually help your career!
Good, but "The Dilbert Future" is better. - By: theshiresuk, 30 Nov 2006 
This book is quite simply a comic way of looking at management stupidity.
I think the phrase "it's funny because it's true" might as well have been invented for this book. Scott Adams you prompt you with pearls of common sense so you can see just how silly middle management can be.
Although this is often regarded as the definitive Dilbert book, I found it slightly less fun to read than the Dilbert Future. That book took a more global view of stupidity, rather than concentrating solely on the workplace.
So real it is scary - By: B. Chandler, 07 Jul 2005 This book is so real that it is scary. You can tell that Scott Adams has spent time. His description of cube life is still relevant today.
I have been trying to justify the Peter Principle & could not make it fit but after reading this book all things became clear. It is impossible to keep a straight facein meetings with out seeing the different types of personalities doing their thing. I can even anticipate what they are going to say & the reactions.
Usually as most books & movies you recognize everyone but yourself. The most obnoxious person will laugh at his stereotype or just not get the point when it comes to movies & books. However this book is scaryin the fact that I could see myself when Scott was describing engineers. And it took a little while to realize what he was talking about the ringing device that knows when to break your concentration.
I am going to leave a copy on QA's desk.
MY next must read is "Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook"
So good they should ban it - By: MM Turner, 30 Nov 2004 Books like this really shouldn't be allowed. They impart dangerous information to receptive minds & reveal things about management that a whole industry has been labouring for years to keep hidden.
The chapter on writing your own appraisal, for example, is very, very dangerous. I have never allowed any of my staff to see it, although I did make use of it when preparing my own appraisal for my boss's signature.
Simple tricks like the 'big picture manouvre' are just too good & useful to be dished outin paperback format.
Scott Adams takes 'the Peter Principle' into an entirely new space. Instead of writing about managers who have been promoted to their level of incompetence, he takes on whole corporate cultures which have grown to their level of incompetence. Everybody who has ever recommended 'concentrating our assets across the board' or, indeed, 'zoomingin on the big picture', ought to read this book. Everybody who has ever considered punishing staff for having poor morale should read it. And every pointy haired manager who believes that anything he doesn't understand can't be very difficult should read it.
But workers? They should not be allowed to read it. It should be removed from their bookshelves & libraries. People buying this book online should have to prove that they are management grades before they complete their purchases.
Books like this are just too dangerous.
