Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook (Paperback)

~ (Author) "In an ideal world, your job as manager would include setting goals and acquiring the resources to achieve them..." (more)
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Cartoonist Scott Adams gives us still more corporate belly laughs with a point in Dogbert's Management Secrets Revealed, the 10th book based on his wildly popular Dilbert comic strip. Taken this time directly from the word processor of world-class consultant Dogbert, it focuses on critical management responsibilities like keeping up with fads, implementing pointless reorganizations and demanding status reports. "Leadership isn't something you're born with," it declares. "It's something you learn by reading Dogbert books." --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Nipping at the heels of the number-one best-seller, The Dilbert Principle , lampoonist Adams' new book is another collection of managerial wisdom and Dilbert cartoon strips. This time, Adams lets loose Dogbert, a caricature of the management guru types responsible for turning those in charge into "fully functioning, paradigm-spewing management zombies." Dogbert offers secrets on how to act like a manager, motivate employees, communicate, get ahead, understand compensation programs, establish staffing levels (get rid of employees), and most important, be happy as a manager. WARNING! This book should be kept hidden in your organization's loose-leaf^-bound action plan and should not be read at work unless you have a soundproof cubicle! David Rouse --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (October 21, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0887308813
• ISBN-13: 978-0887308819
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 7.8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #181,663 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book rivals anything Stephen King could imagine!, March 8, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook (Hardcover)

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!

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Read it and weep - it is terrifying!, August 21, 2001

By	Lesley West (St James, Western Australia) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

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.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It doesn't get any better than this!, December 6, 1996

By A Customer

This review is from: Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook (Hardcover)

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