The anti-management guru
Scott Adams has made a business out of bashing business. Why does the hand he bites love to feed him?
FIFTEEN years after Tom Peters and Robert Waterman launched the management-guru boom with “In Search of Excellence” (1982), the best-selling business book in the United States is an anti-management book. Scott Adams's “The Dilbert Principle” (HarperBusiness, $22), has been near the top of the BusinessWeek best-seller list for more than a year, with more than 1.4m copies in print; Mr Adams also has another hit, with “Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook” (HarperBusiness, $16).
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