Michael C Hogan

Agile Product Development & Innovation Strategy

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“The Trouble with Dilbert”

Norman Solomon critiques the cartoon “Dilbert” in this series of essays collected as “The Trouble with Dilbert”.

https://web.archive.org/web/20040218235653/http://free.freespeech.org/normansolomon/dilbert/book/

Solomon investigates the hypothesis that companies allow Dilbert to be successful, and pay Dilbert’s author to speak at company events, because the cartoon conditions employees to accept a certain set of working conditions as normal so that they will not seek change. Who knows if it’s true, but it’s pretty interesting.