Subtitled: "A Cubicle's-Eye View of Bosses, Meetings, Management Fads & Other Workplace Afflictions"

Out of print.

From the publisher:

A New York Times Bestseller

The creator of Dilbert observes corporate America in all its glorious lunacy.

"The Dilbert Principle" is simple: In any given corporate space, the most ineffective workers will be systematically moved to the place where they can do the least amount of damage to the company's reputation, the product, or the bottom line: Management.

Scott Adams' career was spent illustrating this principle every day, lampooning the corporate world through Dilbert, his enormously popular comic strip. In Dilbert, the potato-shaped, abuse-absorbing hero of the strip, Adams gave voice to the millions of Americans buffeted by the many adversities of the workplace.

In The Dilbert Principle, he takes the next step, attacking corporate culture head-on in this lighthearted series of essays. Packed with more than 100 hilarious cartoons, these 25 chapters explore the zeitgeist of ever-changing management trends, overbearing egos, management incompetence, bottomless bureaucracies, petrifying performance reviews, three-hour-long meetings, the bewildering info superhighway, and more.

The Dilbert Principle features

Adams' trademark wit as he skewers the bizarre absurdities of everyday corporate life

Dilbert strips exclusive to the book throughout

Hilarious essays on incompetent bosses, management fads, head-turning technological changes, and so much more

Laugh-out-loud hilarity

Scott Adams' reputation suffered in his later years, but throughout the nineties, his mordant workplace comic strip was consistently funny, resonated with any employee and was hugely popular.

While working at Pacific Bell, devoting time to building a new career, Adams woke up every day at 4 a.m. and spent time on various endeavors; cartooning proved to be the most successful of them. In 1989, while still employed at Pacific Bell, Adams launched Dilbert with United Media. The workplace strip gained popularity. It was syndicated in 100 newspapers in 1991 and 400 by 1994.

Adams's success grew, and he became a full-time cartoonist as Dilbert reached 800 newspapers. In 1997, Adams won the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist and Best Newspaper Comic Strip. By 2000, the comic was in 2,000 newspapers in 57 countries and 19 languages.

His comic strips were adapted as an animated television series, which premiered in January 1999 and ran for two seasons on UPN. Adams served as executive producer and showrunner, along with Seinfeld writer Larry Charles. The show earned a Primetime Emmy Award in 1999.