Now I am old and foolhardy - as once again I attempt to enter a world in which I have had little experience, but about which I have many opinions. I am convinced that good cartoonists, as few others, have their pulse on the Zeitgeist - the spirit of the times. Scott Adams' cartoon critique of management has become the talk of the town. Dilbert s boss comes in for most abuse. We'd better jump under the bandwagon before the train leaves the station.
Mixed metaphors are always dangerous.
Been there, done that. We enhance stockholder value through strategic business initiatives by empowered employees working new team paradigms. One of Adams E-mail correspondents demonstrated the observation that Dilbert is more documentary than satire. My boss actually said to me Let s bubble back up to the surface and smell the numbers. I had no idea what it meant.