Scott Adams: The Creator of Dilbert
Comic strips are super fun, one of my favorite has always been the satirical office humour Dilbert, because I could relate to it (when I was working in an office) and am sure many people part of the corporate set up would say the same thing.
Created by Scott Adams, Dilbert has become quite popular because of its ability to make mockery of a typical white-collar office. No wonder its completed 20 years, and is still going strong.
Adams is a smart fellow, his ways of poking fun at office environment has earned him an influential status among the masses, his strips have actually succeeded in changing lot of bad company policies.
Its only possible to make such strips when you have actually been through that. Adams was working for various firms for some 17 years, before he decided to get out of corporate rut and do what he is good at. 
It started in the mid-1980s when Dilbert always emerged as the main character of his scribbles, Dilbert was like a combination of Adams’ co-workers over the years. Slowly Adams started to use Dilbert in his business presentations and got great response.
After learning how to get syndicated, Dilbert was launched in 1989. Wow, Dilbert has evolved since some kind of a role model. Adams’ comic strip runs in some 1,700 newspapers in 51 countries at present. 
Its Best to have Many Bosses
While doing this post, I did some research on Scott Adams, and found this very interesting statement he made in one of his interviews, that its best to have many bosses instead of one.
“The best plan now is to have as many bosses as possible. I call it boss diversity. If you work for a company and you have one boss and that boss doesn’t like you or wants to get rid of you, you’re in trouble. But if you work for yourself, you have lots of bosses, who are your customers, and if a few of them decide they don’t like you, that’s okay. You can get new ones.” 
Adams has compiled a book Dilbert 2.0: 20 Years of Dilbert, which has a collection of 2000 comic strips, some never published before. If Dilbert was for real, would he have still a job when companies are downsizing.
Adams said, “No. I’m drawing a series right now where he gets laid off and he has to go through a really tough bunch of interviews to try and get another job. At one point he is asked whether he would take a bullet for a prospective employer and they make him go to a firing range to prove it.” Companies here always manage to put their employees in the firing line.
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