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Summary: Oh, the beauty of good management principles!
Review: I love this book! I oversee 10 department managers, who supervise another 120 or so more employees. I keep this book under my desk for reference when I need a hint on what to do. Tomorrow I think I will spring an employee evaluation on someone! A reorganization of a department might be in order soon too. This book will help you keep the balls you're juggling in the air (toss them off to your secretary). Helpful strategies like pretending to care and stuff like that. I hope none of my employees read this review.
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Summary: Oh, the beauty of good management principles!
Review: I love this book! I oversee 10 department managers, who supervise another 120 or so more employees. I keep this book under my desk for reference when I need a hint on what to do. Tomorrow I think I will spring an employee evaluation on someone! A reorganization of a department might be in order soon too. This book will help you keep the balls you're juggling in the air (toss them off to your secretary). Helpful strategies like pretending to care and stuff like that. I hope none of my employees read this review.
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Summary: A Dog's Eye View of Middle Management
Review: If you think you can learn management skills from a character in a newspaper comic strip, this book is not for you. On the other hand, if you read Scott Adams' Dilbert comic strip before you read the headlines of your local paper, or if you find yourself LOL at most of his cartoons, you have already committed this book to memory and don't need this review.
Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook is a combination of reprinted Dilbert comic strips from the first half of the 1990's and a management handbook written as if it were the work of a cartoon dog named Dogbert. The cartoons are funnier than the handbook. I gave up reading the book linearly and read the cartoons first. Then I went back and read the management handbook.
The cartoons work better because you get to see Scott Adams view of management both from the manager's point of view and also from that of the dumbfounded workers. It is this juxtaposition of manager logic and worker reality that makes the Dilbert strips so funny.
The text of the handbook is entirely one-sided. You get to see the world from the unrelenting point of view of the demented management expert. The cruel logic is there, but you, the gentle reader, are forced into the role of Dilbert facing the twisted thinking of middle management. You may laugh on the outside, but you may be crying inside. I do not recommend reading this book before spending lots of time with your own manager.
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Summary: Dogberts Tips on the Mastery of the Pointy Haired Boss
Review: It's Scott Adams...it's dogbert...it's making fun of our favorite thing to hate:Management Nuff Said.
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Summary: Very funny!
Review: Like always, Scott Adams is hilarious in this book! Great for all Dilbert fans out there! VERY VERY VERY FUNNY!
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Summary: True Revelations of Management's Missed -management
Review: Now management cannot say that they are highly intellectual over a lot of things. Reading this book by a subordinate would make him edge over his boss knowing all his secrets which are fuul of inefficiencies and ineffectivities.
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Summary: It doesn't get any better than this!
Review: Scott Adams is a genius, as we all know. What I didn't know is that he could best himself. After reading "The Dilbert Principle" and saying "Right on!" to myself a lot, then reading this book, I find even more enjoyment in Dogbert's handbook. Dogbert is more brutally to the point without frills and direct than much of what was in "The DIlbert Principle." TDP is too serious. DTSMH is a more comfortable read. I love the parts about motivating employees and how management continually seeks to avoid compensating employees and providing empty rewards and trying to make them appear great and sought after. How true! How long do they think a donkey will chase a cardboard carrot anyway??My only criticism of both books is the repetition of strips within each book. I'll be the first to admit my greed in wanting as much Dilbert as possible
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Summary: It doesn't get any better than this!
Review: Scott Adams is a genius, as we all know. What I didn't know is that he could best himself. After reading "The Dilbert Principle" and saying "Right on!" to myself a lot, then reading this book, I find even more enjoyment in Dogbert's handbook. Dogbert is more brutally to the point without frills and direct than much of what was in "The DIlbert Principle." TDP is too serious. DTSMH is a more comfortable read. I love the parts about motivating employees and how management continually seeks to avoid compensating employees and providing empty rewards and trying to make them appear great and sought after. How true! How long do they think a donkey will chase a cardboard carrot anyway??
My only criticism of both books is the repetition of strips within each book. I'll be the first to admit my greed in wanting as much Dilbert as possible
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Summary: Logic is futile
Review: That's from the text. It almost sounds like something from
the Borg, doesn't it? There's a lot of other scary quotes
in this book. Scary because they're all true. I won't tell you what they are. You'll just have to buy Scott Adams' book. In my not-so-humble opinion, he's tight on the money with everything he says about management, most of whom appear to have been
promoted far beyond their level of competence. If you want
to laugh at the morons who are your bosses, Adams is the
guy who'll push your laugh-button.
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Summary: Read it and weep - it is terrifying!
Review: The true horror in this fantastically funny book is its incredible accuracy. For any one who works in a corporate environment with levels of management it reads like a horror story, all the more frightening because you know all of the characters personally. Yes it is hysterically funny. But read it at your own peril. You will never look at your colleagues and managers in the same way.
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