The Dilbert Principle: A Cubicle's-Eye View of Bosses, Meetings, Management Fads & Other Workplace Afflictions
Dilbert: Business • Book 1
by Scott Adams
Narrated by Scott Adams
Why Listen to This Audiobook?
Scott Adams narrates his own takedown of corporate management like a man who has personally survived every meeting he's describing.
- Great if you want: sharp, cynical validation of every bad boss you've had
- Listening experience: punchy and brisk — more stand-up special than traditional audiobook
- Narration: Adams's dry, deadpan delivery makes the satire land harder than a reading would
- Skip if: the Dilbert strips are the real joke — audio loses the visual punchlines
About This Audiobook
Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic strip, turns his attention from the characters on the page to the absurdities of actual corporate culture. His central thesis, the Dilbert Principle, holds that incompetent workers are systematically promoted into management where they can cause the least damage, a counterintuitive reversal of the Peter Principle. The book expands Dilbert's world into extended essays on meetings, management fads, workplace jargon, and the quiet desperation of knowledge workers everywhere.
Adams narrates his own material, which doubles the comedy: there is something specifically satisfying about hearing the cartoonist himself deliver his deadpan observations about the workplace he spent years lampooning. His comic timing in audio is essentially the same as in the strip, economical and perfectly calibrated. The shorter runtime suits the format well, making this more of an extended comedy routine than a conventional business audiobook.