The Dilbert Principle

Does your company practice the Dilbert Principle?

• Is your CEO's office plastered with Mission Statements and 'change' initiatives?
• Does your boss confuse his laptop with an Etch-A-Sketch?
• Have bonuses been replaced with novelty items inscribed with the corporate logo?
• Are idiots promoted because they have good hair?

In the world of TQM, re-engineering, and empowered secretaries, Dilbert has become the poster boy of corporate America. Millions of office dwellers tack Scott Adams comic strip to their walls when murdering the boss is not an acceptable option.

After 17 tears of working in a cubicle and reading thousands of e-mail messages from readers who've 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 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: world's greatest fiction
• Trolls in the accounting department
• Humiliation as a management tool
• Selling bad products to stupid people
• And more!

• Foreword: Big Opening
• Introduction: Why Is Business So Absurd?

1. The Dilbert Principle
2. Humiliation
3. Business Communication
4. Great Lies of Management
5. Machiavellian Methods
6. Employee Strategies
7. Performance Reviews
8. Pretending to Work
9. Swearing: The Key to Success for Women
10. How to Get Your Way
11. Marketing and Communications
12. Management Consultants
13. Business Plans
14. Engineers, Scientists, Programmers, and Other Odd People
15. Change
16. Budgeting
17. Sales
18. Meetings
19. Projects
20. ISO 9000
21. Downsizing
22. How to Tell If Your Company Is Doomed
23. Reengineering
24. Team-Building Exercises
25. Leaders
26. New Company Model: OA5

A must read.