The Joy of Work: Dilbert's Guide to Finding Happiness at the Expense of Your Co-Workers
by Scott Adams

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Book Review: Dilbert is the best in a line of business cynics
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Adams is aware of this and in his book, The Dilbert Principle, he refers to the Peter Principle as "those Golden Years when you had a boss who was once good at something".

If Dilbert is not the first, he is the best. Unlike the others, he has achieved mass circulation and adorns t-shirts, coffee mugs and cubicle walls.

The key to success, says Adams, is segmentation. "If you can sell enough units to the Stupid Rich... then you can lower your prices and sell to the Stupid Poor, (which is) where the real volume is."

The Dilbert principle states that people are idiots. We are just idiots about different things at different times. "No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot." Big corporations encourage idiocy to thrive. They reward the symptoms of competence, above competence itself.

Scott Adams himself had a brief foray as the super consultant, Ray Mebert. He dressed up, put on a wig (never forget the emotional intelligence of good hair), and helped a group of executives at an international company create "the longest, most useless, buzzword-heavy mission statement on earth". It was when they were putting it to music (since "there is a wealth of evidence that people can remember words more easily if they are put to music"), that he finally came clean.

With the advent of Mebert, we are looking at a new age in consulting. One day we will look back to the Golden Days when consultants borrowed your watch and at least told you the time. The new Mebert consultants will take your watch and at most will ask you to describe it.

Summary of The Joy of Work: Dilbert's Guide to Finding Happiness at the Expense of Your Co-Workers

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If you work for a company that is sucking the life force out of your body, you have to options for getting your life back while continuing to collect your pay. Full of tips for discovering workplace joy at the expense of co-workers, stockholders, and civilization in general, Scott Adams' new book is a blueprint for rediscovering your soul at the office.

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