More inept managers, wacky office politics, and nonsensical leadership practices from the man in tune with the workplace culture of today. Dilbert has become a hugely successful strip because Scott Adams feels your pain. How? Because this former employee of a major telecommunications company has been there. He’s seen the road to failure firsthand. And he knows that to successfully navigate the ludicrous world of business, you can’t expect common sense to prevail, you need to keep a sense of humor, and above all, you must always be ready to blame the other guy. The strip’s enormous popularity stems from the fact that its millions of readers easily identify with the crazy plots and wacky characters found within the corporate environment. Sure, most companies don’t have a bespectacled engineer with a tie permanently curled up, a cynical talking dog, and a manager with two pointy tufts of hair. But it’s the outrageous things Dilbert characters do and say that leave readers knowingly nodding their heads and, of course, laughing uproariously. The antics of Dilbert’s cast are based not only on Adams’s own corporate experiences, but on the numerous e-mails he receives each day about the office dramas of his devoted fans. “Once every decade, America is gifted with an angst-ridden anti-hero, a Nietzschean nebbish, an us-against-the-universe everyperson around whom our insecurities collect like iron shavings to a magnet. Charlie Chaplin. Dagwood Bumstead. Charlie Brown. Cathy. Now, Dilbert.” —The Miami Herald “Confined to their cubicles in a company run by idiot bosses, Dilbert and his white-collar colleagues make the dronelike world of Kafka seem congenial.” —The New York Times