Word: dilbert
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wheaties dilemma. When a crush of games hits shelves this fall, kids will grab the gory action ones while their parents reach for something a bit tamer--an encyclopedia or a math primer, perhaps? Any chance of common ground? Our taste test: Quake, last Christmas' bloody hit, vs. Young Dilbert, an edu-title due this fall. You make the call...
...DILBERT QUAKE...
...have fireworks on Independence Day. We all read Dilbert. And we all watch baseball--or should. After all, there's nothing like an evening at the ballpark to give you a sense of the community you live within...
...competition for workers inspires some recruiters to try novel approaches. Cisco Systems, a computer networking company that is hiring employees at the rate of 1,200 a quarter, links its online recruitment site cisco.com/jobs/ to the home page for Dilbert, the hapless comic-strip geek Everyman, much loved in the Valley. And just last month San Francisco drivers were startled by a billboard that shouted in electronic letters: CISCO Systems. 600 JOBS AVAILABLE...
Many people think SCOTT ADAMS is Dilbert, the cartoon champ of mismanaged corporate employees. But in lots of ways the artist-writer is closer to Dogbert, Dilbert's power-mad canine, whose Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook is out this month. Both of them want to change the world. Dogbert aims to do it by training managers to avoid making decisions, calling more meetings and destroying employee morale. Adams, having conquered the cartoon world--his strip is in three-quarters of America's daily newspapers, and his first book, The Dilbert Principle, sold 1.2 million copies--is working...