Rating: 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.
Rating: Summary: Nowhere near as good as The Dilbert Priciple Review: This book is basicly just a rehash of The Dilbert Priciple, told from Dogbert's point of view.
Unlike The Dilbert Priciple, which actually proposes solutions to the problems discussed,
Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook just lampoons brain-dead management in a way that
seems a little tired at this point.
Not a bad book, but something of a letdown after The Dilbert Priciple, which I think
should be required reading for anyone aspiring to "manage."
Rating: Summary: This book rivals anything Stephen King could imagine! Review: This book is like spending 40 hours a week in hell...
which is where I used to work, as a matter of fact. I can't believe I used to sit in my cubicle with a headphone growing out of my ear, staring at blank walls we were not allowed to decorate, reading meaningless memos from our last "Quality Driven Leadership" meeting and wondering how my brainless
boss could somehow manage to come up with an idea
more idiotic than the last one.
And then, to top it all off, I find out that Scott
Adams spied on me, wrote a book and
I'm not seeing a penny from the royalties! This is hell.
Seriously, if you have ever been an incompetent manager --
or have suffered at the hands of one -- this book is a
must-read. But be prepared to be horrified. It will be
the story of your corporate life...and it's NOT a pretty
tale!
Rating: Summary: Still laughing Review: This book WILL describe the way your company works. I found myself completing the sentences and knowing the chapters before I even read them all!
Rating: Summary: A True Classic Review: This is a great book. Adams does a wonderful job of capturing Dogbert's arrogance and some common themes in hi-tech management.
Rating: Summary: WOW !!! Review: What Plato's "Republic" is to Philosophy;
What Machiavelli's "Prince" is to Politics;
What Shakespeare's "Hamlet" is to Literature;
What Beethoven's "9th Symphony" is to Music;
What Leonardo's "Mona Lisa" is to Art;
Dogberts "Top Secret Management Handbook" is to Management !!
Rating: Summary: Good. Worth the read. Review: While I believe his other books (non-comic strip) are better, I still enjoyed reading this book. I'm tempted to try out some of the zany suggestions presented here. I also recommend a book called "Corporate Fairy Tales". It's another great business parody book.
Rating: Summary: The fear of office cubicles Review: While I found it to be a bit confusing to take advice from a bespectacled dog, and some of the text was a bit unremarkable, the actual comic strips were so maddeningly true-to-life that compressing laughter proved to be quite complicated. I especially enjoyed the ones where the manager either asks for impossible things or tries to crush his employees' willpower. Oh, yes, the "Project Ducky" is also quite endearing...
Rating: Summary: A must read for all would-be Managers Review: Working for the world leading consulting firm, I was advised by my Manager during my last performance evaluation review to work at the improvement of my Leadership skill ... but he didn't clearly specified what he meant by that or how I could achieve that goal.
On a business trip in the US, I was lucky to discover that "Leadership isn't something you're born with. It's something you learn by reading Dogbert books".
I'm now reading and training hard, having discovered that in my "Dilbert's principle"-managed Company, Dogbert's advices are the only thing able to propel me at a management position :-)
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