Dilbert, or rather, SCott Adams gets plaudits in the 25 books management would rather you didn't read.
yes, Number 6 stuck out like a sore thumb.
In the 5 ways to manipulate your boss:
Yes to number two. I have long understood that managers can't read more that a paragraph or two selected at random on the front page. To be helpful, and ensure they don;t stray, you label the paragraph you want them to read "Executive Summary" They are executives so they naturally read this and nothing else. You don't even have to give the rest dull boring and off putting titles, just don't use the word executive anywhere else.
Then you employ the various Yes Minister tricks to influence the decision (Kenat was spot on with the Dilbert and Yes Minister comment.) This also often involves number 3. Yes/no choices are an anathema to managers, and have the secent of "success/failure" be sure not to choose the wrong one and they usually thus choose neither. Hence you offer a selection of choices, and make it evident which is the "safe" choice. They never think to say "I don't like any of these choices." They just pick the safest.
No 1 is one I'd like to have tried.
The number 5 is not something I could stoop too but the summary is, if this is the only way within the company, get out.
What I'd really like to see on this site is a "How to defeat the brown-nosing backstabbing sychophantic bast*rds"
I think I'll go do a search.
JMW
