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

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

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: This AudioBook endangers your very life!
Review: If you're listening to this book, while driving on the freeway you're likely to wildly swerve around, because you have tears in your eyes from laughing! Dangerous to your health!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: It¿s great!
Review: In this hilarious addition to the Dilbert library, author Scott Adams supports his contention that all people are weasels. In chapter after sidesplitting chapter, Adams looks at what people do, showing how they are indeed weasels. Scattered along the way are letters he received from people out in the workaday world (supporting evidence), and wonderful Dilbert cartoons (illustrations).

Yep, if there is one truly effective satirizer of the capitalist system, it is Scott Adams. This book is literally laugh-out-loud funny. (I had to hold my breath at times, to keep from waking my wife up repeatedly!) If you like Scott Adams and Dilbert, then I highly recommend that you get this book, it's great!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Go ahead, laugh out loud
Review: Is this really a business book, or is it a way to reprint used comic strips and reader e-mail messages by wrapping them in ideas that are just a bit too difficult to express in pithy pictures and captions? Hmmm... does it matter?

I can say that the portion of this book that begins with the title page and ends on the last page before the beginning of Chapter 2 contains many funny parts that should make you laugh out loud. Unless you read it all in one sitting. It's laugh-out-loud funny when it's fresh, but it eventually gets to be smirk-quietly-in-cynical-recognition if you stick with it too long. Best to tackle one chapter per day so you can enjoy it more. Don't worry about losing the flow: these are not subtle ideas.

If you want a business book with fresh ideas, check out "Good to Great." If you want lose yourself in a great read, check out "Seabiscuit: An American Legend." If you want a bitter laugh at the expense of your bosses and coworkers, click "Add to Shopping Cart." You've found it.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Enjoyed the Weasle Humor!
Review: Like most of the Dilbert series, this latest cartoon book is an indictment of the annoying weasles, whom we see everyday at work. The part about the "Glass Ceiling" is new to the Dilbert series and I thought was really humorous, but at the same time it is a well known problem for women in the workplace, so exposing it is not really all that novel. In general, I enjoyed the remarks and cartoons, like a sip of some familiar light refreshment --- and for longer, more substantial drink of hilarious workplace weasle-humor, with a spicey bite of sharp satire, I would also very much recommend,"Management By Vice"!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: 3.5/5 stars: Good but declining.
Review: Nowhere near the astronomic heights of "The Dilbert Future" or "The Joy of Work", and not even "The Dilbert Principle". As the "Dilbert" comic strip itself begins to decline (I hardly laugh at the new ones any more), it is still good to know that there are at least some good material left in Adams. Included here are some of his best recent comics, especially Wally taking a sick day ("The wavy pattern on the carpet is making me dizzy").

The chapter on women and the "Glass Ceiling" is a brilliant, shameless indictment of political correctness in the workplace - but that's about as deep as this goes. The rest of it is just anti-weasel babble that is hilarious but has been beaten into the ground.

I still find this good enough to give three and a half stars, but Adams is defintely going down "Dilbert"-wise.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: This book should be on your Christmas gift giving list!
Review: Once again, Scott Adams shines a light on the place we spend a great deal of our time and the result will keep you or anyone you give this to as a Christmas gift rolling in the floor.

Right from the start, with the concept of the Weasel Zone, the book presents a laugh a minute look at life in the corporate world. You get a better understanding of modern business when you see what really drives some people, "being a weasel".

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Way of the Weasel more active in Politics
Review: Political weaseldom, interestingly, has been raised to an artform rarely seen in the annals of business where performance is more easily seen. Recent political practice shows the "way of the weasel" growing exponentially among the consultants and political promoters. What is always surprising, however, is the number of times that the weasel is proud of his weaseldom, and in fact, takes credit for many of the beneficial events that occur, as if their services were vital and irreplaceable, the conjecture being, supposedly, that at some future point, the narcessist weasel will become the main event, the heir to the throne. The affliction is alive and well in most political circles and represents a growth industry to Dilbert, or some enterprising soul, since the cartoons strike so many accurate chords and are seen by so many as incredibly precise. Of course, political weasels are so visible that they make easily identifiable targets, prone as they are to capitalize upon their weasledom, consistent with their narcissistic personalities, ususally to the detriment of their unwary prey. What a golden opportunity for reflection and characterization. If there are classes of weasels in business, there may be many more in the political arena, perhaps too numerous to classify, ranging from pretend loyalists to pretend enemies, always in an effort to maximize the moment, a boon for cartoonists who thrive upon the vulnerabilities and the flaws of their targets. An insightful and timely foray into the art of the weasle, but merely a beginning to understanding either the corporate or the political weasle. A great start!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: MEETINGS MORE FUN WHEN YOU READ THE WAY OF THE WEASEL
Review: Scott Adam's "The Way of the Weasel" strips down corporate politics to its streaked whities in the funniest way yet. Each chapter is devoted to an glancing psychological dig at what weasels are, their different types and how they work. See how many you can identify at your own workplace- it's fun.

The Way of the Weasel is goes a step beyond Scott Adams comic strip books and includes written discussions which support each strip. I didn't "get" Dilbert until I worked for a company wherein my big boss's ego was so big you could have used it to plug the hole in the ozone layer. For those who haven't "gotten" Dilbert in the past because you have been fortunate enough to THINK you have well-intentioned co-workers, this book introduces you to many new levels of weaseldom.

I recommend this book to everyone having a problem with a ego-bloated boss or a conniving co-worker. It will help you keep your sanity and put that perky smile on your face while you look for that new job.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Another ecellent Dilbert book!!!!!
Review: Scott Adams continues to delight us with his humorous insights of corporate america, and people in general.
I enjoyed every minute of this book.

Here's hoping for a Dogbert Guide to Tech Support.

DNRC Rules!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Hilarious
Review: Scott Adams has always done a fabulous job of depicting the trials and tribulations of working in America. This book is a followup to the Dilbert Priciple, if you enjoyed the Dilbert Principle you are guaranteed to like The Way of the Weasel. You probably see people in the Weasel Zone regularly. After reading The Way of the Weasel, you'll find yourself smiling (at least inwardly) at their bad behaviour.


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