Build a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies: Dogbert's Big Book of Business
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- Condition
- New
- Dimensions
- 8 x 0.5 x 8 in
- Weight
- 7.2 oz
- Publisher
- Andrews McMeel Publishing
- Publication date
- March 3, 1994
- Edition
- Original
- Language
- English
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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 One-Minute Manger--Dogbert is taking the business-book business by storm. Dogbert appears in the nationally syndicated comic strip Dilbert. Read more
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| Publisher | Andrews McMeel Publishing |
|---|---|
| Publication date | March 3, 1994 |
| Edition | Original |
| Language | English |
| Print length | 112 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 0836217578 |
| ISBN-13 | 75 |
| Item Weight | 7.2 ounces |
| Dimensions | 8 x 0.5 x 8 inches |
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One of the all-time best business books + Scott Adams� best
Format: Paperback
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.
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Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2003 by cs211
Funny
Really enjoyed it. Bought dirt cheap, but I agree with the other reviewers. Very funny if you work in/ever work in a big office.
Reviewed in the United States on June 30, 2013 by Lauren
Five Stars
Format: Paperback
Especially like the one about killing the customers!
Reviewed in the United States on September 15, 2016 by Nancy
awesome
Format: Paperback
I Love Dilbert, scott adams makes me laugfh
Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2017 by neal
No big deal
No big deal.
Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2019 by d
Perhaps the most insightful book about what really happens in the corporate workplace
Format: Paperback
Before the boss's hair went pointy, before dinosaurs roamed the strip, before Dogbert became master of the universe, there was Build a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies. From what your clothes say about you ("I hope you'll ignore the stuff that comes out of my mouth"), to change ("You will appear to be a visionary planner if you decentralize everything which is centralized and centralize everything which is decentralized"), to excuses for being late ("Just remember that your excuse must be more dramatic than those who arrive before you"), this book is fall-out-of-your-chair funny while at the same time being spot-on in describing the surreality of the modern corporate environment. Each page is a Dilbert strip, but written for this book. Together they cover pretty much everything you need to know about how business really operates. The final two pages, "When to change jobs" and "Keeping your perspective" do, penultimately and ultimately, put it all in, well, perspective.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2010 by Ursiform
A great blast from the 1990's past that is still relevant today
Format: Paperback
This is fun book for anyone who has ever worked in an office to read and appreciate the satire. It was written in the 1990's but not much has changed and I am seeing the same characters and actions happening in 2021.
Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2021 by Michelle M
Poor Kindle formatting makes the book unreadable.
Format: Kindle
This review is specifically about the Kindle formatting, which is unreadable. At the time of this writing, the formatting of the ebook is essentially an out-of-order page scan. Panels are oddly chopped, and the narrative flow is disrupted by the ordering of the chopped-up panels. Amazon makes it very hard to tell if or when ebooks are updated, and book samples sometimes aren't long enough to spot these sorts of problems. If your sample doesn't extend past the introduction, be prepared to return the book for a refund and make sure you let Amazon know it's due to defective content. If and when the ebook is updated, your mileage will vary.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2014 by Todd A. Jacobs