Scott Adams on Whether Management Really Matters

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Harvard Business Review

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🗓️ 17 October 2013

⏱️ 14 minutes

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The Dilbert creator talks with HBR senior editor Dan McGinn.

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0:00.0	When leadership advice feels like buzzwords and platitudes, it's time to get real.
0:05.9	HPR's podcast Coaching Real Leaders brings you behind closed doors as Muriel Wilkins coaches anonymous
0:11.9	leaders through raw honest career questions
0:14.6	that we all face.
0:15.9	Listen and follow coaching real leaders for free
0:18.3	wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to the HBR Idea Cast. From Harvard Business Review, I'm Dan McGinn.
0:34.8	I'm on the phone today with Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert,
0:37.9	and the subject of the Life's Work interview
0:39.7	in our November magazine.
0:41.6	Scott has a new book out entitled How to Fail
0:44.2	at Everything and Still Wind Big, kind of the story of my life. Scott, thanks for
0:49.5	joining us today. Thanks for having me. So Scott, this new book is a memoir.
0:55.0	Why did you write it?
0:56.0	Well, when I was a kid, I grew up in a small town in upstate New York, and I didn't really
1:02.3	have a lot of role models who had been really successful.
1:06.4	I mean, people had been successful in their jobs, but nobody had really broken out and
1:11.0	done something important
1:12.7	and i always felt jealous of all those
1:14.5	you know rich kids the harvard bound types
1:17.8	can look at their family and the friends
1:20.2	they just got all kinds of advice
1:22.3	all kinds of useful tidbits, role models, that sort of thing.
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