Scott Adams skewers the absurdities of the corporate world, this time moving the most ineffective workers to the place where they can do least damage - management.
Dilbert Series
This series satirically explores the absurdities and frustrations of modern corporate life. With sharp wit, it exposes the inefficiency, bureaucracy, and human foibles that often permeate office environments. Each installment offers a glimpse into the clashes between attempts at progress and nonsensical protocols. It's a humorous and insightful commentary on the daily grind.
Recommended Reading Order
Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook
- 160 pages
- 6 hours of reading
First published in 1997, the successor to The Dilbert Principle is this time written by Dilbert's canine, Dogbert. He teaches new managers vital skills such as how to be leaders without making any decisions and how to inspire employees by giving them worthless knick-knacks. Scott Adams combines the challenges at work with the challenges of life.
In The Dilbert Principle and current bestseller Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook, Scott Adams skewers the absurdities of today's corporate world. Now he takes the next step, turning his keen analytical focus on how human greed, stupidity and horniness will shape the future. With this book, Adams follows in the footsteps of other great futurists, i.e., sitting at home making stuff up that can't be proven wrong for many years. Featuring the same mix of essays and cartoons that made The Dilbert Principle so uniquely entertaining, The Dilbert Future offers predictions on business, technology, society and government. Nobody is spared this time. Some predictions: Children: They are our future, so we're pretty much hosed. Tip: Grab what you can while they're still too little to stop us. Human Potential: We'll finally learn to use the 90 percent of the brain we don't use today, and find out that there wasn't anything in that part. Longevity: We'll all live to 140. The Olympics will expand to include new events such as Complaining and Slow Driving. Computers: Technology and homeliness will combine to form a powerful type of birth control.
The Joy of Work
Dilbert's Guide to Finding Happiness at the Expense of Your Co-Workers
- 280 pages
- 10 hours of reading
Egomaniacal bosses. Stupid coworkers. Boring routines. Corporate America has become a wasteland of tedium and soulless drudgery that just sucks the life force out of your body and reduces you into a mindless, stressed-out drone. No more.It's time to let the creative juices run over -- Dilbert style. In this latest foray into the pre-posterous world of business, America's favorite cubicle dweller gives us a blueprint for rediscovering the joy of work that's full of tips for livening up the workplace at the expense of coworkers, stockholders, and civilization in general. Usually absurd, always funny, it is a timely, right-on-target look at corporate America that never fails to deliver gut-wrenching laughs.
Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel
- 368 pages
- 13 hours of reading
Back after a four-year hiatus, New York Times best-selling author Scott Adams presents an outrageous look at work, home, and everyday life in his new book, Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel. Building on Dilbert’s theory that “All people are idiots,” Adams now says, “All people are idiots. And they are also weasels.” Just ask anyone who worked at Enron.In this book, Adams takes a look into the Weasel Zone, the giant grey area between good moral behaviour and outright felonious activities. In the Weasel Zone, where most people reside, everything is misleading, but not exactly a lie. Building on his popular comic strip, Adams looks into work, home, and everyday life and exposes the way of the weasel for everyone to see. With appearances from all the regular comic strip characters, Adams and Dilbert are at the top of their game—master satirists who expose the truth while making us laugh our heads off.