I've done everything from being a bank teller to running a training program. The beauty of both those careers was that I had multiple jobs and they were quite different. I spent about eight years each with a major bank and then the local phone company. HR Magazine about his career path and his new book. Adams wants to help employees identify mental barriers and how to break through them, as well as escape from their own "mental prisons." Loserthink introduces readers to the most useful thought patterns in a variety of disciplines.
The reason for this, he says, is they don't have experience across multiple domains and thus are not equipped to think more productively. Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America (Portfolio, 2019), Adams suggests that many otherwise intelligent people are trapped by unproductive ways of thinking. How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big (Portfolio, 2013) and The Dilbert Principle (HarperBusiness, 1997), and And then there's Catbert's motto: "You can't spell 'who cares' without HR."Īdams is also the author of best-selling books such asĭogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook (HarperBusiness, 1996), Catbert's irrational policies―including mandatory unpaid overtime, zero privacy rights and unpaid vacation―literally suck the life out of the company's employees. Adams obliged, and the perception of human resources may never be the same. After Adams introduced Catbert as an unnamed character, readers said they wanted more. Since then, Dilbert has become not just a cultural touchstone, but also a bit of a reality check for executives nationwide, with managers writing Adams to tell him they changed or avoided policies because "We don't want to end up in a 'Dilbert' comic."Īnd there's no doubt HR professionals don't want to be identified with Catbert, the evil director of HR, a thoroughly sadistic character who makes sport of abusing Dilbert and his co-workers. First published in 1989, the strip that pokes gentle, mocking fun at office life was soon running in newspapers across the country and a comic strip star was born. That and his own willingness to take risks.Īdams was a typical corporate worker when, with no formal art training, he created Dilbert, the beleaguered white-collar employee dubbed the "hero of the workplace" by the Scott Adams owes his success to everyday odd behavior in the modern workplace.
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