Dilbert's dog reveals secret management techniques to motivate employees to the point of dementia. Unfortunately, I've been there.
I just read Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook - a hilarious, sarcastic worker-drone treatise. I can only say, PLEASE READ this if you've ever been a cubicle worker. Or if, like me, you used to be a cubicle worker and can now celebrate the unfettered bonds of freelance work.
It's written by the Dilbert cartoon guy...or, as the book states, "as told to Scott Adams" by Dilbert's pet Dogbert. Dogbert's advice to being a manager is a tongue-in-cheek program to gently use and abuse your workers, slowly draining their will to live while propping up your own inflated ego. In Dilbert's world, new ideas are dangerous, Boss Logic is irrefutable, and the false hope of advancement is a powerful motivational tool.
It's a quick, fun read. I read it in two nights from different hotel rooms on my recent journey down the coast. Since I just left my cubicle job in a big move both across country and to the world of freelance, the book happily hit close to home. I could leave the capricious whims of middle management behind and laugh at the poor shlubs trapped in my wake. Ha, ha. Parhaps that includes some of you. If so, you might still want to read this Dilbert book.
After all, it's better to laugh than cry, right?
