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	The Dilbert Principle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Dilbert Principle refers to a 1990s satirical observation stating that companies tend to systematically promote their least-competent employees to management, in order to limit the amount of damage that they're capable of doing.
		Although academics may reject the principle's veracity, noting that it is at odds with traditional human resources management techniques, it originated as a form of satire that addressed a much-discussed issue in the business world.
		The Dilbert Principle is a variation of the Peter Principle.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Dilbert_Principle (350 words)

	Peter principle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Peter Principle is a theory originated by Dr. Laurence J. Peter.
		It states that successful members of a hierarchical organization are eventually promoted to their highest level of competence, after which further promotion raises them to a level just beyond their highest level of competence.
		The term is a pun on Sigmund Freud's theory of the pleasure principle.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Principle (439 words)

	The Dilbert Principle -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Adams expanded his study of the Dilbert Principle in a (Click link for more info and facts about satirical) satirical 1996 book of the same name, which is required or recommended reading at some (The act of managing something) management and (Click link for more info and facts about business programs) business programs.
		Although academics may reject the principle's veracity, noting that it is at odds with traditional (Click link for more info and facts about human resources management) human resources management techniques, it originated as a form of satire that addressed a much-discussed issue in the business world.
		The Peter Principle addresses the practice of (Click link for more info and facts about hierarchical organization) hierarchical organizations (such as companies and corporations) that use promotions as a way to reward employees that excel at their current position.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/th/the_dilbert_principle.htm (479 words)

	Business Wire: DILBERT PRINCIPLE release marks anniversary. @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In THE DILBERT PRINCIPLE: A Cubicle's-Eye View of Bosses, Meetings, Management Fads, and Other Workplace Afflictions (HarperBusiness; May 8, 1996, $20.00), Scott Adams brings his acerbic wit and sharp insights to bear on the fads and fashions of the modern workplace in chapters that are generously illustrated with strips from his wildly popular comic.
		Dilbert, according to Computerworld, "has outstripped Far Side and Calvin and Hobbes as the comic most often littering the workplace." Dilbert was the first comic strip to be made available on the Internet, and Adams himself was the first artist to publish his personal e-mail address along with his strip.
		THE DILBERT PRINCIPLE carries on the Dilbert tradition of revealing the seamy underside of the modern workplace; its publication is the perfect salute to the comic strip's anniversary.
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	The Dilbert Principle
		The Dilbert Principle refers to the 1990s theory that companies should promote their worst employees to management.
		Adams expanded his study of the Dilbert Principle in a satirical 1996 book of the same name, which is now required reading at some management and business programs.
		In the Peter Principle, employees rise to the level of their incompetency, whether that be in management or elsewhere.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/t/th/the_dilbert_principle.html (233 words)

	SALON: Hero of a Thousand Workspaces
		Dilbert is a bespectacled bucket-head with a perpetually upturned tie and a pocket-protector worn as a coat of arms.
		Dilbert came into his own as the digital age's Everygeek -- a Good Soldier Schweyk just trying to survive the corporate trenches while mad generals led suicide charges against phantom foes.
		Dilbert's human colleagues are most often found running around like little windup toys with arms outstretched, or occasionally surrounded by concentric vibration lines as if in the throes of slow-motion electrocution -- as in the banner screen of "Dilbert's" phenomenally popular Web site.
	www.salon.com /weekly/dilbert960603.html (1279 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Dilbert Principle: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The reason for the remarkable success of Scott Adams' Dilbert cartoon strip is obvious; he has captured the flavor of modern business and held it up to the light of truth, revealing all of its quirks, crazy strategies, and downright insanity for all to see.
		Dilbert is the working man's hero; while we toil away in our little cubicles, waiting for quitting time and weekends, Dilbert and his pals are fighting back – well, not fighting, but they are doing all kinds of complaining, the same complaining most office workers do, albeit not so forthrightly.
		The Dilbert Principle is the book that made a cult comic strip a treasury of American humor; taken outside the frames of his heralded daily comic strip, Scott Adams is even funnier and more insightful than even many a Dilbert fan would have thought possible.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0752224700 (1238 words)

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		The Dilbert Principle is the first full-length book that Adams has written, and it was published this year.
		The attractiveness of Dilbert's Principle is perhaps best understood by people who have been in working life long enough to appreciate his sarcasm.
		The Dilbert Principle is based on the philosophy that we all expect others to act rationally, even though we are irrational.
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	BBC - h2g2 - The 'Dilbert' Books
		Throughout the book are Dilbert cartoons, usually placed in context of what the subject is. There are also emails from fans and email complaints.
		This term is one of the most popular of all those new words coined in Dilbert and has led to the creation of many others, including the term 'a-duh-lescent'.
		Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel, published in 2002, is a guide to taking advantage of the 'Weasel Zone'.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/getwriting/A1128610 (1622 words)

	The Dilbert Principle Article, TheDilbertPrinciple Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The term was coined and explained by Scott Adams, the creator of the Dilbert comic strip, in a 1994 Wall StreetJournal article.
		Inthe Peter Principle, employees rise to the level of their incompetency, whether that be in management or elsewhere.
		In theDilbert Principle "the most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage:management".
	www.anoca.org /management/peter/the_dilbert_principle.html (210 words)

	Grilled Pterodactyl - "The Dilbert Principle" by Scott Adams
		In "The Dilbert Principle", he organises and expands on these insights into a hysterically funny but thought-provoking book.
		The Dilbert Principle goes one step (or maybe half a dozen steps) further than The Peter Principle.
		If you recall, the Peter Principle said that in large corporations, competent people were promoted upwards until they reached a position where they were incompetent, and therefore received no further promotion.
	www.rightword.com.au /ptero/article.asp?id=62&type=5 (319 words)

	The Dilbert Principle: A Cubicle's-Eye View of Bosses, Meetings, Management Fads & Other Workplace Afflictions: Current ...
		The "Dilbert Principle" asserts that the most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management.
		Ever since Machiavelli set out the principles of princehood, the public has been hoodwinked into believing that with the right advice on swimming with the sharks, managing in one minute, and searching for excellence, accompanied by the application of reason and logic, success would be theirs.
		In Dilbert, the potato-shaped, abuse-absorbing hero of the strip, Adams has given voice to the millions of Americans buffeted by the many adversities of the workplace.
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		The most frequently asked question is "Why does Dilbert's tie curl up like that?" The answer is either A) It's a metaphor for his inability to control his environment or B) He's just glad to see you.
		About the Dilbert List ---------------------- It costs you nothing to be on the Dilbert Newsletter list, except for the cost of your own e-mail.
		The frequency of the Dilbert Newsletter is approximately "whenever I feel like it" which should be about three or four times a year.
	www.cs.uaf.edu /~roth/humor/dilbert11.0 (3371 words)

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		Cartoonist Scott Adams is back in book form, and this time he gives Dilbert and his cronies a free hand to forecast the trends that just might drive business and society during the next millennium.
		In typical Adams fashion, The Dilbert Future: Thriving on Stupidity in the 21st Century serves up a series of laugh-out-loud predictions on technology, marketing, work, jobs, gender relations, and even the future of democracy and capitalism.
		I would recommend The Dilbert Principle or Dilbert: The Way of The Weasel over this one.
	www.trackings.com /p/Th/e+/The+Dilbert+Future.0887308708.html (880 words)

	The Adams Principle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In the dilbert world, bosses are heartless incompetents, employees are forever humiliated, and little productivity occurs in the workplace because everyone is too busy writing, reading and implementing pointless human resources department directives.
		The Dilbert Principle explains why there are so many incompetent managers.
		And the Dilbert strip does tell bosses things, especially when an employee clips it out of the paper, pushes it under their door and runs away--which happens a lot.
	www.entrepreneur.com /Magazines/MA_SegArticle/0,1539,227587-1,00.html (1859 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Dilbert Principle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Dilbert is the working man's hero; while we toil away in our little cubicles, waiting for quitting time and weekends, Dilbert and his pals are fighting back - well, not fighting, but they are doing all kinds of complaining, the same complaining most office workers do, albeit not so forthrightly.
		Dilbert is able to combine his many humorous office adventures with some of the toughest management issues, such as downsizing, performance appraisals and team building.
		The Dilbert Principle is loosely based on the long discussed phenomena, called the "Peter Principle".
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0694516929 (1793 words)

	Cyberpunk Archives--The Dilbert Principle
		Certainly Dilbert's mass appeal is based on its uncannily accurate portrayal of the work office.
		Dilbert's world is filled of cubicles, dense management types, performance evaluations, clueless team leaders.
		Dilbert may be the first interactive cartoon strip.
	www.joabj.com /CityPaper/dilbert.html (859 words)

	Powell's Books - The Dilbert Principle: A Cubicle's-Eye View of Bosses, Meetings, Management Fads & Other Workplace ...
		Lately, however, the Peter Principle has given way to the " Dilbert Principle." The basic concept of the Dilbert Principle is that the most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management.
		The usual business rationalization for promoting idiots (the Dilbert Principle in a nutshell) is something along the lines of " Well, he can't write code, he can't design a network, and he doesn't have any sales skill.
		The Dilbert Principle: The most ineffective workers will be systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage — management.
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	The Dilbert Principle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The basic concept of the Dilbert Principle is that the most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management.
		You may be wondering if you fit the description of a Dilbert Principle manager.
		Adams is the creator of Dilbert, which appears in 450 newspapers.
	users.rcn.com /alderete/humor/norm/dilbert-princ.html (1003 words)

	Biblio: (ISBN: 0887308589) The Dilbert Principle by Scott Adams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		THE DILBERT PRINCIPLE combines cartoons and essays on a variety of pressing management issues, such as bosses, morale, downsizing, motivation, incentives, the Internet, delegation, meetings, and mission statements." This book has 336 pages and is illustrated..
		The Dilbert Principle: The most ineffective workers will be systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage — management.
		In Dilbert, the potato–shaped, abuse–absorbing hero of the strip, Adams has given voice to the millions of Americans buffeted by the many adversities of the workplace.
	www.biblio.com /isbnsearch.php?isbn=0887308589&aid=isbnnu (1550 words)

	Dilbert Principle, The - Scott Adams - Printed Books Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		Dilbert Principle, The - Scott Adams : The secret of office survival
		His Dilbert cartoons are popular in newspapers - featuring a poor geek-y engineer (Dilbert), his (generally incompetent) co-workers, his (even more moronic) boss and a variety of animals...
		The Dilbert Principle, in case you don't know, is that "the most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage - management".
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/dilbert-principle-the-scott-adams (314 words)

	A Book Lover's Book Reviews - The Dilbert Principle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		His theory, the Dilbert Principle, is an expansion on an older and well-known business concept, the Peter Principle.
		I love the Dilbert comic strips, but was cautious about Adams making the leap to a book-length work.
		Even the chapter written in the Dogbert persona (he is Dilbert's dog, for the uninitiated) provides plenty of chances for giggles while imagining the effect that these techniques would have.
	www.bookloversreviews.com /Humor/dilbertprinciple.shtml (836 words)

	gilest.org - The Dilbert Principle and The Dilbert Future, by Scott Adams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Dilbert Principle and The Dilbert Future, by Scott Adams
		Mainly, I read the cartoons and laughed at the all-too-familiar office hell that is Dilbert's life.
		Towards the end of the second book, Adams explores some quite interesting aspects of physics and science that are fun, but he doesn't go into very much detail and keeps needlessly pointing out that he's not an expert, and is trying to write about something way over his head.
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		The Dilbert Principle; A Cubicle's-Eye View of Bosses, Meetings, Management Fads and Other Workplace Afflictions
		Dilbert, Scott Adams' enormously popular comic strip, has given voice to the millions of Americans buffeted by the many adversities of the workplace.
		Packed with 400 Dilbert cartoons, this insanely insightful management book takes a look at corporate America in all its glorious lunacy, exploring its zeitgeist of ever-changing management fads, overbearing egos, bottomless bureaucracies, and more.
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		Lately, however, the Peter Principle has given way to the ``Dilbert Principle.'' The basic concept of the Dilbert Principle is that the most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management.
		The usual business rationalization for promoting idiots (the Dilbert Principle in a nutshell) is something along the lines of ``Well, he can't write code, he can't design a network, and he doesn't have any sales skill.
		This is the principle behind lotteries, dating and religion.
	sujith_v.tripod.com /quotes/dilbert.txt (885 words)

	Grilled Pterodactyl - "The Dilbert Principle" by Scott Adams
		Naturally, it is illustrated with collections of the very best of the Dilbert cartoons.
		My only gripe is that the book tends to peter (dilbert?) out at the end, with long selections of e-mails that Adams receives, and not a cartoon in sight.
		Besides, I didn't get the point of the last e-mail, which he claims is his favourite of all time.
	www.rightword.com.au /ptero/article.asp?id=62&type=5 (319 words)

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