Presentation by Deepika P as part of her MPOB course in ASIET

1. SCOTT ADAMS
PRESENTED BY
DEEPIKA. P
MTP, MBA, ASIET
Prof. Nimal C Namboodiripad

2. Biography
• Famous writer and cartoonist on management topics
• He was born in June 8, 1957 at Windham, New York.
• He received his Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Hatwick
College in 1979.
• He married Shelley Miles in 2006.
• He also studied economics and management for his 1986
MBA from Haas School of Business at the University of
California, Berkeley.
• He is the creator of the Dilbert comic strip.
• The author of several business commentaries, social satires
and experimental philosophy books.
• He is also a vegetarian and trained Hypnotist.

3. Career
• Prior to success as a writer/cartoonist he worked with
telecommunications engineers at Crocker National Bank in
San Francisco between 1979 and 1986, at Pacific Bell between
1986 and June 1995, and draws heavily from their
personalities for those of his Dilbert characters.
• He is also CEO of Scott Adams Foods.
• He is a member of the International Academy of Digital Arts
and Sciences.
• Adams writes in a satirical, often way about the social and
mental landscapes of white collar workers in modern
corporations and other large enterprises.

4. His Works
• Dogbert’s Clues for the Clueless(1993)
• Dilbert Newsletter (since 1994)
• Build A Better Life By Stealing Office Supplies (1994)
• The Dilbert Principle (1996)
• Dogbert’s Top Secret Management Handbook (1996)
• The Dilbert Future (1997)
• The Joy of Work (1998)
• God’s Debris (2001)
• Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel (2002)
• The Religion War (2004)
• Seven Years of Highly Defective People(1997)

5. Dilbert Principle
• Dilbert principle refers to a 1990’s satirical observation stating
that companies tend to systematically promote their least
competent employees to management (generally middle
management) in order to limit the amount of damage that
they are capable of doing.
• The Dilbert Principle is a variation of the Peter Principle. The
Peter principle addresses the practice of hierarchal
organizations (such as corporations and government agencies)
to use promotions as a way to reward employees who
demonstrate competence in their current position. It goes on
to state that, due to this practice, a competent employee will
eventually promoted to, and remain at a position at which he
or she is incompetent.

6. Dilbert Future
• The Dilbert Future is a
gloves-off satire of
humanity by him that
breaks the net
motivations of humanity
down into stupidity,
selfishness and hominess
and presents various ideas
for profiting from human
nature.

7. The Joy of Work
• It is a two-part book, the
first offering
recommendations as to
how office workers can find
happiness at their cubicle
desks and the second
sharing Adams’ formula for
creating humor, based on
his experience penning the
Dilbert comic strip

8. The Dogbert’s Top Secret
Management Handbook
– It is the second
Dilbert business
book by him.
Written from the
point of view of
his unscrupulous
alter-ego,
Dogbert, it
complemented.

9. God’s Debris
• God’s Debris creates a
philosophy based on the
idea that the simplest
explanation tends to be the
best. It summarizes that a
omnipotent God
annihilated God would
already know everything
possible except his own lack
of existence and exists
novas the smallest units of
matter and the law of
probability or ‘God’s debris’

10. Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel
• The chief premise of the book is that every day actions of
humanity as neither consistently honest nor criminal, but
rather weasel. He dissects the aspects of weasel behavior and
explores its benefits and ramifications, sometimes referring
his own experience.

11. Contribution to English Language
• BOCTAOE (But Of Course There Are Obvious Exceptions)
• Confusopoly
• Cow-orker
• The Dilbert Principle
• Dilbertian
• Elbonian
• PHB (Pointy-Haired Boss)
• Philosotainment

12. Awards
• He has received a great deal of recognition for his work,
including National Cartoonist Society Reuben Award(1997)
and NCTE George Orwell Award for Distinguished
Contribution to Honesty and Clarification in Public Language
for his participation in ”Mission Impertinent”

13. Thank You
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Adams