{"id":10252,"date":"2011-10-23T09:57:35","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T14:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=10252"},"modified":"2011-10-23T09:57:35","modified_gmt":"2011-10-23T14:57:35","slug":"book-report-corporate-madness-by-mark-lineback-1994","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/23\/book-report-corporate-madness-by-mark-lineback-1994\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Corporate Madness<\/i> by Mark Lineback (1994)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BookWhen I mentioned this book when I bought it last week<\/a>, I said it was trying to piggyback on Dilbert\u2019s success. That’s not accurate, actually. Although Dilbert might have made a book of business cartoons palatable in the middle 1990s (see also The Complete Geek (An Owner\u2019s Manual)<\/a><\/em>), this book is more akin to the photocopied-to-death cartoons passed around the office in the era before the Internet. The cartoons are single-panel and usually revolve around a gag wherein a corporate buzzword or situation is expressed humorously with the punchline written in strange fonts. Clearly, the things were designed to be tacked onto cubicle walls.<\/p>\n

As such, it’s rather dated and has not held up too well in the intervening 17 years since its publication, whereas Dilberts from the era have. There’s a fascinating study in that.<\/p>\n

Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><\/p>\n