Organizations are often very frustrating and puzzling places.
We're trying to reduce the confusion with a readable, accessible book that provides basic ideas and tools to make organizations a little easier to understand and manage. Part of the stimulus for the book is the Dilbert phenomenon. Dilbert's creator, Scott Adams, has become pretty much the world's mostly widely-read management guru. He's attained that popularity with a view of the workplace that's very different from what appears in most of the organizational and management literature. Lots of people are cynical and discouraged about work and their workplace.