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Dilbert Principle
The - Adams Scott

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Dilbert Principle, The - Adams Scott
divya srikanth@indiegurl
Feb 11, 2006 07:41 PM, 2966 Views
(Updated Feb 11, 2006)
Tongue In cheek

I loved this book.

I am not an office - goer, I am not even a college student as of yet. I am not even in the twelfth. But this book was so entertaining; and informative too, if you want to look at it that way.

The plotline is very hazy. In fact, the plotline is just an excuse for the author to present his views on management and careers in general. If you are interested in a skewed, yet funny take on the world of management, the book is for you. The main characters are Dilbert, a stereotyped office goer, and his highly intelligent dog, Dogbert. Dilbert’s boss is this bald guy with wierd peripheral hair, who’s mental faculties can be summed up like this: he cannot figure out the difference when somebody has substituted his laptop for a scribble pad.

The author’s cynicism with conventional offices and conventional management fairly hits you in the face, with every cartoon he draws and statement he makes. He makes out the conventional office to be this feudal kingdom, with the correspondingly suffocating levels of hierarchy. The author also spends a lot of time and paper making fun of the idea of cubicles. He makes a comparison with the mazes that rats run through in laboratories, to the breathtaking network of those little white boxes they call cubicles, spreading like a disease through every floor..... okay, I admit, that comparison was mine!

The author makes fun of everything that all office going adults take for granted - the clothes, the meetings, the bosses, the accountants............

The only con I would say, is that it is tiring to read more than three chapters at once, because every page is HEAVY with sarcasm and there are these really, really, REALLY wierd analogies [ ’’..stood out as much as a dead nun on a snowbank’’ - read it to believe it]. The author also seems to be really in love with this word, ’paradigm’. It peppers the pages like a full-stop does.

The pros would be the sheer wit, the fact that though the whole book is an exaggeration, it really hits the nail on the head with amazing accuracy, and the fun quotient. Dogbert’s one liners are also something to watch out for.

Oh yeah, and if you want to be promoted, you better have good hair.

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