Build a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies: Dogbert's Big Book of Business

by Scott Adams

Book Overview

Anyone who ever toiled in the office environment will identify with the ironclad axioms put forth by Dogbert in this collection of office wisdom. So, move over Murphy's Law, and forget about the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0836217578
• Release Date: March 1994
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.5" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Must-have management book

This book is simply awesome! It's all made of comics strips of Dilbert and co but all of the content is organzied as a Management book, topic in which you are guided by Dogbert (of course). We can say it's the grandfather somehow of the "Dilbert and the way of the weasel" and the previous half-comic half-written books of Scott Adams because it really is structured like a book and not like a comic collection. Indeed the subtitle is "Dogberts' big book of Business" With Dogbert you will explore several important matters like Marketing, Business Clothing, Co-workers, Meetings, Tips & triks and so on. I think that in this way the ironic and sarcastic attack of Scott Adams to nonsenses of Corporate America is even more focused. Totally recommended!

One of the all-time best business books + Scott Adams? best

I cannot say enough positive things about BABLBSOS, Scott Adams' first book and the one that started him on his path to fame, glory, and fortune. I bought my first copy in the early nineties at the MIT Tech Coop bookstore, when a fellow geek friend of mine said I absolutely had to read it - he just shoved it into my shopping tote. At that point in time I had never heard of Scott Adams, and I think the Boston Globe was one of a small handful of papers carrying Dilbert (it subsequently took two years of letter writing before my local paper agreed to carry it).In BABLBSOS, Scott Adams covers his by now familiar territory of the world of American high tech business for the very first time. BABLBSOS is not a rehash of the daily Dilbert strip like so many other collections of Adams'. Rather, BABLBSOS is original material organized by topics, which collectively cover all major aspects of the workplace experience in a high tech company. Since Adams is exploring this material for the first time, and is not doing it in a daily comic strip form, the results are more hard-hitting and concise than Adams' subsequent books. Each page stands on its own and showcases in the best possible way Adams' brilliantly cynical understanding of how businesses all too often really function.But BABLBSOS is more than just Scott Adams' best work. It also is one of the best business books and management guides ever created, and certainly the pithiest. All too many business books present prescriptions for how businesses should operate. BABLBSOS is the opposite: an "anti-business" book that shows how businesses actually behave, from the perspective of the employees. The challenge and guidance for managers, then, is to do the opposite of the pointy-haired boss, to avoid the situations that Adams presents.After I originally read BABLBSOS, I recommended it to everyone I knew who would appreciate it (which is almost anyone who works for a living in a corporation), and used many of the panels in various presentations. I still keep a copy handy in my office for reference. So, as you can see, I cannot recommend BABLBSOS highly enough.

Dogbert has useful tips for everyday situations.

This book is practical, humorous, and has big, simple cartoon pictures so it's easy to understand. Dogbert gives useful insights on everyday situations such as coffee intake, boss classifications, and hallway greetings. A must read!

A book about business through the eyes of Dilbert

There are many book about business etiquette. Many of them talk about all sorts of obscure manners and what to do in the strangest of situations. But this one actually talks about situations that you get into every day, such as hallway etiquette and mettings. But the best part about it is that it is fun to read. Other books have pages and pages of text that talk endlessly like a moron in the hallway. With this book, every page have something funny about it

excellent, excellent, excellent!

I will forever be grateful to the wise woman introduced me to the world according to Dilbert (and his megalomaniac dog Dogbert) with this book a few Christmases ago. If you enjoy this -- or rather, when you need more Dilbert, you have to get Dogbert's Clues for the Clueless -- my all-time favorite Dilbert book.