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Scott Adams

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

Editura: HarperBusiness

Anul aparitiei: 1997

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 ...

Scott Adams

Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook

Editura: Harper Paperbacks

Anul aparitiei: 1997

Behind the closed doors of corporate management lurks a manifesto so devious, so insidious, and of such diabolic power, it has the ability to transform normal human beings into paradigm-spewing zombies. Its purpose: to help bosses stick it to their employees. Its author: none other than Dogbert, the canine corporate consultant out to rule the world. All too often, new managers make mistakes such as rewarding good work with good pay, communicating clearly and improving departmental efficiency. Dogbert shows that this could have devastating consequences: Employees begin to expect fair treatment and compensation, productive workers show results (making managers look bad by comparison), and the department's future budget allotment could be decreased because it spends only what it needs. Drawing from his years of experience tormenting Dilbert and advising his boss, our Machiavellian mutt uses pithy essays, illustrated by scores of comic strips, to teach neophyte managers such potent practices as: The power of verbal instructions: Sound like a boss while maintaining complete deniability! Empty promises of promotion: all the motivational benefits, none of the costs! Pretending to ...

Scott Adams

The Dilbert Future: Thriving on Stupidity in the 21st Century

Editura: HarperBusiness

Anul aparitiei: 1998

Step aside, Bill Gates! Here comes today′s real technology guru and his totally original, laugh-out-loud New York Times bestseller that looks at the approaching new millennium and boldly predicts: more stupidity ahead. In The Dilbert Principle and Dogbert′s Top Secret Management Handbook, Scott Adams skewered the absurdities of the corporate world. Now he takes the next logical step, turning his keen analytical focus on how human greed, stupidity and horniness will shape the future. Featuring the same irresistible amalgam of essays and cartoons that made Adams previous works so singularly entertaining, this uproariously funny, dead-on-target tome offers half-truthful, half-farcical predictions that push all of today′s hot buttons - from business and technology to society and government. 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. Computers - Technology and homeliness will combine to form a powerful type of ...

Scott Adams

Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel: A Guide to Outwitting Your Boss, Your Coworkers, and the Other Pants-Wearing Ferrets in Your Life

Editura: HarperBusiness

Anul aparitiei: 2003

Back after a four-year hiatus, New York Times bestselling 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.

Scott Adams

Dilbert Gives You the Business

Editura: Andrews McMeel Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 1999

Everyone who reads DILBERT and works in an office will appreciate this collection, Dilbert Gives You the Business. Creator Scott Adams tells it like it is through the insane business world inhabited by Dilbert. If frustration and lunacy are an inevitable part of your workday, appropriate measures must be taken immediately. Andrews McMeel has the perfect antidote to your workplace stress. Dilbert is universally recognized as the definitive source of office humor. What makes this 14th Dilbert book so unique is that it is a collection of the most popular strips requested by fans for reprints and downloads from Dilbert.com gathered together. Arranged by topics for quick reference, this hilarious book is the comprehensive Dilbert source book, sure to alleviate work burnout. Packed within these colorful pages, fans will find all their favorite characters, including Dilbert, as he encounters daily issues from delegating to decision-making, trade shows to telecommuting, and downsizing to annoying coworkers. It's business as usual for the Dilbert clan. . . . Dilbert is continually updating his resume, Dogbert continues his pursuit of world domination, Wally strives to do the least amount of ...

Scott Adams

Random Acts of Management

Editura: Andrews McMeel Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2000

In Random Acts of Management, cartoonist Scott Adams offers sardonic glimpses once again into the lunatic office life of Dilbert, Dogbert, Wally, and others, as they work in an all-too-believably ludicrous setting filled with incompetent management, incomprehensible project acronyms, and minuscule raises. Everyone, it seems, identifies with Dilbert, who struggles to navigate the constant tribulations of absurd company policies and idiot management strategies.

Scott Adams

Dilbert - A Treasury of Sunday Strips: Version 00: A Dilbert Book

Editura: Andrews McMeel Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2000

Everyone who's in business, works for a business, or even just gives others the business is amazed: Scott Adams never lacks for yet another way to lampoon the corporate world. It's not that Adams is anti-business. He's more anti-bad boss than anything. But poor management practices, the effects of bad decisions, and what it all means for the average worker add up to more comedic material than even the man who created Dilbert can tame. Since Dilbert was first syndicated in 1989, Adams has built a following that would be the envy of any corporate sales and marketing team. His work not only generates howls from readers as they rush to plaster it on lunch-room refrigerators and scan it into interoffice e-mails, it has those same fans reading about "their" workplaces every Sunday in a multiple-panel, color format. And that's what this treasury, The Collected Dilbert Sundays, provides. This collection offers yet another glimpse into the zany life of Dilbert, Dogbert, Ratbert, and the rest of the crazy cube crew through the masterpiece Sunday comics. Here's even more of the great Adams's irony, sarcasm, and satire that so many have come to depend upon to cope with the corporate workplace. ...

Scott Adams

Excuse Me While I Wag: A Dilbert Book

Editura: Andrews McMeel Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2001

Cubicle-dwelling business people the world over have been knowingly nodding, faithfully push-pinning their favorite strips to their cube walls, and--most of all--belly laughing out loud ever since Dilbert first arrived on the scene. In this collection, Excuse Me While I Wag, Dilbert and his look-alike dog, Dogbert, once again provide comic relief to anyone who has ever had to inhabit a cubicle, endure an "initiative of the week," or simply work in an office that has, on occasion, caused them to pull out large clumps of their hair. Scott Adams' dead-on humor in Excuse Me While I Wag is sure to satisfy the hordes of fans worldwide who avidly follow the misadventures of Dilbert, Dogbert, Catbert, Ratbert, the pointy-haired boss, and the rest of the cast of characters in Dilbert's world--a world that's eerily like the one we work in daily.

Scott Adams

Another Day in Cubicle Paradise

Editura: Andrews McMeel Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2002

When Dilbert first appeared in newspapers across the country in 1989, office workers looked around suspiciously. Was its creator, Scott Adams, a pen name for someone who worked amongst them? After all, the humor was just too eerily funny and familiar. Since then, Dilbert has become more than a cartoon character. He's become an office icon. In Another Day in Cubicle Paradise Dilbert and his cohorts, Dogbert, Catbert, Ratbert, and the pointy-haired boss, once again entertain with their cubicle humor. From bizarre personnel decisions to meetings gone bad, from schizoid secretaries to consultants from hell, Another Day in Cubicle Paradise provides a way to get all those darn comic strips off the breakroom bulletin board.

Scott Adams

Words You Don't Want to Hear During Your Annual Performance Review: A Dilbert Book

Editura: Andrews McMeel Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2003

This latest Dilbert collection updates loyal readers on the mind-numbing careers of Dilbert, Wally, Alice, the Pointy Haired Boss himself, and an ever-expanding cast of walk-on "guest stars."

Scott Adams

It's Not Funny If I Have to Explain It: A Dilbert Treasury

Editura: Andrews McMeel Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2004

Office workers, cubicle squatters, and corporate drones everywhere read Dilbert in their morning papers and see their own bosses and coworkers in the frames of the strip, enacting on newsprint the weird rituals and bizarre activities that are conducted each day in the American workplace. The characters' names and hairstyles have been changed to protect their identities, but Dilbert's readers aren't fooled. After all, they spend every day with these idiots and lunatics. Jargon-spewing corporate zombies. The sociopath who checks voice mail on his speaker phone. The fascist information systems guy. The sadistic human resources director. The technophobic vice president. The power-mad executive assistant. The pursed-lip sycophant. The big stubborn dumb guy. They're Dilbert's coworkers, and chances are they're yours, too. If you know them, work with them, or dialogue with them about leveraging synergies to maximize shareholder value, then you'll recognize this comic strip as a day at the office, only funnier Since 1989 Dilbert has lampooned not only the people but also the accepted conventions and practices of the business world. Office politics, management trends, business travel, ...

Scott Adams

What Would Wally Do?

Editura: Andrews McMeel Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2006

The 26th Dilbert book especially highlights Wally--Dilbert's colleague--fellow engineer, foil, and fool. Wally's that short quirky guy with little hair, plenty of horn-rimmed frames, and almost zero work ethic--the self-proclaimed "Lord Wally the Puppet Master."

Adams Scott

The Dilbert Principle

Editura: Pan Macmillan

Anul aparitiei: 2000

'It isn't often that management books make you laugh out loud. But this is a notable exception.' The Independent Page dim. 180 x 113 x 22 Weight: 192 grams

Scott Cavan, Adams Guy, Mann George

Iris Wildthyme The Complete Series Three

Editura: Big Finish Productions Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2012

Three more adventures for everyone's favourite trans-temporal Adventuress and her long-suffering travelling companion, Panda. Page dim. 144 x 129 x 32 Weight: 290 grams

Adams Scott

How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big Kind of the Story of My Life

Editura: Penguin Books Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2013

The author has probably failed at more things than anyone you've ever met. So how did he go from hapless office worker and serial failure to the creator of Dilbert, one of the world's most famous comic strips, in just a few years? This title deals with his many failures and what they eventually taught him about success. Page dim. 233 x 153 x 19 Weight: 320 grams

Adams John Joseph, Card Orson Scott

Dead Man's Hand An Anthology of the Weird West

Editura: Titan Books Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2014

Features twenty-three original weird west tales by some of the best contemporary fantasy and SF writers. Page dim. 197 x 131 x 28 Weight: 310 grams

Adams Guy, Handcock Scott

The Confessions of Dorian Gray

Editura: Big Finish Productions Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2016

Inspired by Oscar Wilde's classic story of hedonism and corruption, The Confessions of Dorian Gray imagines a world where Dorian Gray was real, and his friendship with Oscar Wilde once spawned the notorious novel. Page dim. 143 x 139 x 15 Weight: 152 grams

Adams Scott

Loserthink How Untrained Brains Are Ruining the World

Editura: Random House USA Inc

Anul aparitiei: 2019

Page dim. 225 x 147 x 18 Weight: 304 grams

Goss James, Adams Guy, Handcock Scott

The Lives of Captain Jack Volume 2

Editura: Big Finish Productions Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2019

Captain Jack Harkness -time-travelling con-man, saviour of Earth, and intergalactic adventurer. He has lived many lives. Here are three more of them. 2.1 Piece of Mind by James Goss, 2.2 What Have I Done? by Guy Adams and 2.3 Driving Miss Wellsby James Goss. Page dim. 129 x 145 x 27 Series: Doctor Who: The Lives of Captain Jack Weight: 196 grams

Adams Scott

Eagerly Awaiting Your Irrational Response

Editura: Andrews McMeel Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2020

In the newest Dilbert collection, award-winning cartoonist Scott Adams turns passive-aggressive corporate communication into comic strip gold. Page dim. 229 x 216 x 10 Series: Dilbert Weight: 411 grams