How 'Dilbert' practically wrote itself

October 24, 2013 at 02:20 PM
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To mark his contribution to the hallowed halls of management comedy, we're profiling Dilbert creator, Scott Adams, in this month's issue of HBR. He was kind enough to lend us his 550-page tome Dilbert 2.0: 20 Years of Dilbert, where he reveals that more than a handful of the comics documented in his legendary workplace strip actually came straight – sometimes verbatim – from his readers' work-lives, and his own.