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The Dilbert Principle

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The Dilbert Principle is an inside view of bosses, meetings, management fads and other workplace afflictions. Scott Adams examines even more bizarre and hilarious situations in the world of work with growing absurdity. In twenty-six provocative, illustrated chapters, Adams reveals the secrets of management in every company, including; swearing your way to success, faking quality, trolls in the accounting department, humiliation as a management tool, selling bad products to stupid people and more!'A roaring success'Daily Telegraph.

Издательство: "Macmillan Publishers" (2001)

Adams, Scott

▪ 1996

      Cartoonist Scott Adams was asked one question so many times that he came up with a stock answer. It began, "I don't work at your company." People could not be blamed for asking. The comic strip "Dilbert" continuously seemed to be reflecting the events of everyone's workplace. Its lead character, a computer programmer and engineer for a high-tech company with no apparent purpose, was buffeted daily by the illogical projects and business decisions of his clueless boss and the corporation's equally inept management. Dilbert, readily recognized by his perpetually curled necktie (the subject of another frequently asked question), survived the indignities of his existence with the assistance of his pet, Dogbert, who often seemed to have his own self-serving agenda.

      Adams was born June 8, 1957, and grew up in Windham, N.Y., in the Catskill Mountains. He was valedictorian of his high-school class (because, he said, "the other 39 people in my class couldn't spell valedictorian") and went on to earn a B.A. in economics from Hartwick College, Oneonta, N.Y., in 1979 and an M.B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1986. From 1979 to 1986 he was employed at Crocker National Bank in San Francisco (while working as a teller, Adams was robbed twice at gunpoint). From 1986 until June 1995 he worked for Pacific Bell in San Ramon, Calif., in a number of jobs involving technology and finances.

      Dilbert, a composite of Adams' co-workers over the years, became the main character of Adams' doodles and made his first public appearances in business presentations. The comic strip was first published in 1989, and by 1995 it had been syndicated to some 600 newspapers, was being read in at least 15 countries, and found its own corner on the Internet. A few years after "Dilbert" appeared, Adams began publishing his E-mail address in the strip. He personally read and answered each message, and he credited his correspondents for suggesting many of the situations that Dilbert encountered.

      (BARBARA WHITNEY)

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Источник: Adams, Scott

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