Product Description

Are you surrounded by weasels? So is Dilbert. Here is his guide to how you can outwit even the best of them.

In this national bestseller, Scott Adams looks into work, home, and everyday life, exposing the devious weasel-like ways of people around us -- bosses, coworkers, contractors, stockbrokers, politicians, and others -- and offers hilarious ways of triumphing over each and every one of them.

With appearances from all of the regular comic strip characters, Adams and Dilbert are at the top of their game -- master satirists who expose the truth while making us laugh our heads off.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #95368 in Books
• Published on: 2003-11-01
• Released on: 2003-10-21
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 368 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780060521493
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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From Publishers Weekly
Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic strip and author of The Dilbert Principle and other huge sellers, now shares his sentiments on the office colleague everyone loves to hate: the weasel. This crafty character is the co-worker who stabs colleagues in the back and manages to get ahead without lifting a finger. As one cartoon illustrates, the weasel is the guy who tells poor Dilbert, "I'm Bucky, the project manager. Your assignment is painfully difficult and probably unnecessary. If you need me, I'll be complaining about you to your boss." Being a weasel isn't all bad, though; Adams observes that weasels often have successful careers without ever doing much work. There are several ways to accomplish this, one being, "For every task you plan to do, it's a good idea to have sixty tasks that you've promised to do later if you ever find the time. This gives everyone the impression that you are valiantly battling an avalanche of work and fighting against long odds to make the company successful. Or they might think you're a worthless, inefficient weasel. Either way, the pay is exactly the same and it cuts down on your workload." In short chapters, Adams discusses a variety of weasel behaviors, including leaving incorrect phone numbers to confuse callers, mastering the art of whining, and communicating effectively (which is "to say as much as possible without saying anything"). Sprinkled with Dilbert cartoons throughout, the book will strike a chord among the countless cubicle-dwellers to whom the weasel is all too familiar. 50 cartoons.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist
Adams, creator of the popular comic strip Dilbert, continues the satirical look at office life that he began with The Dilbert Principle (1996). Being a weasel encompasses everything that we hate about our coworkers as well as all the sneaky, time-wasting activities that we ourselves engage in just to avoid doing actual work. Here's his take on getting ahead by sucking up to the boss: "The great thing about being a sycophant is there's no deception going on. You know you're a weasel, your boss knows you're a weasel, and your coworkers know you're a weasel. Yet the method still works like a charm." The book is filled with lots of to-the-point Dilbert strips with appearances from all the regular characters, and (supposed) actual e-mails from readers about the absurd things that go on in the workplace. This book is best left on your desk to read in snippets for comic relief from the inane culture of office life. For more Dilbert hilarity, and to correspond with Adams, visit Dilbert.com. David Siegfried
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About the Author
Scott Adams is the creator of Dilbert, the comic strip that now appears in 1,550 newspapers worldwide. His first two hardcover business books, The Dilbert Principle and Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook, have sold more than two million copies and have appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for a combined total of sixty weeks.

Customer Reviews

Adams does it again!
All I can say is that if you enjoy the Dilbert comic strips, and the content matter of those strips -- then you will love Adams' books. What Adams could not do in his comic strip he *DOES* do in his books.

In his two previous books, The Dilbert Principle and The Dilbert Future -- Adams expounded on the ideas and examples of his comic strip into full blown discussions on the subjects. Such as his often quoted and highly public view point that, "all people are idiots."

He frequently relates stories from the workers on the front lines of the war between the smart witty peons of the world versus the dumb slow witted morons that are "managing" us all. Then to top it all off he includes relevant examples from his strip to illustrate his point whenever possible. So you get the best of both worlds -- entertaining insights, thoughts and essays on typical frustrating or absurd working situations, and equally entertaining but also very funny comics about those same situations.

Read it, you will like it.

You Should DEFINITELY Buy This Book Unless...
This is the best book I've read in a long while. I laughed out loud enough times to scare my fellow transit riders. I'd say if you're sprouting a few weasel whiskers of your own you will find this to be an uncomfortable read. Otherwise, you will thoroughly enjoy IDing people you know and feeling smug about it.

The book itself is well-written and hard to put down once you get started. Mr. Adams has written another best-seller.

I'd recommend buying this book for your family, friends and co-workers just to see how they liked it. Then you'll know who to trust in the future.

In my opinion, this is a MUST READ and a great gift for the holidays. No one needs to know you'll have an ulterior motive in giving it to them, and who knows, you might find out a few surprising things about yourself in the process.

Side-splitting anecdotes & real-life weasel strategies
Written by the acclaimed (or perhaps just ridiculed) author of "The Dilbert Principle" and the Dilbert daily comic strip, Dilbert And The Way Of The Weasel is a hilarious yet frighteningly insightful look at a simple principle of human nature: People are Weasels. That is, most people fall into a massive grey area between ethical behavoir and outright criminal behavior, which author Scott Adams refers to as the Weasel Zone. Side-splitting anecdotes, real-life weasel strategies (such as salesmen giving small gifts to potential customers, triggering the human compulsion to reciprocate the gift by making a big purchase), and much more about the venal, self-serving, yet technically legal side of human behavior fills Dilbert And The Way Of The Weasel from cover to cover. An absolute must-read and impossible to put down - cynics will relish every word, and optimists should regard the wisdom herein as a basic manual for survival in a weasel-ridden world.