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	• Who Moved My Blackberry? Lucy Kellaway, Martin Lukes Hyperion, 2008 - 368 pages average customer review:based on 30 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Satirical but truly funny as well...

Kellaway has encapsulated the essence of the corporate cyclone of shallowness. Not only in the writing but in the formate of dialogue throughout the book, her characters (or character as some might argue) live in a world of digital 'chat' with little substance.
To capitalise upon this, she has written a truly funny novel, while at the same time expressing some poignant concerns about consumerism, the corporate world, and Western culture in general. The book's satire is thick enough for the most cynical personalities, but it performs it in such a way that is truly funny. Also, the more 'obvious' humor and the vapid personality of the main character lightens the tone to a degree that is both enjoyable and in keeping with the undercurrents of the book.
Unfortunately, not enough is done with the other characters in the book. While the plot moves well, there is a definite lack of character development with most of the tertiary figures.
Nevertheless, it is one of the funniest things I have read in the past year.

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Low Hanging Fruit

After working for a company whose favorite morale boosting word was "Improvation," and being surrounded by "Big Rocks" and the " Attitude" which was the basis of our performance reviews that rated you 1-5 based on how you lived the principals over the past year (you couldn't actually get a 5, according to management, because that would put you in the same realm as God, and no one is perfect!), I have to say that this novel is absolutely on target.

If you think that people like Martin Lukes don't exist, and that they don't get promoted for sucking up rather than results, you haven't lived in Corporate America. (I know the book is set in the UK, but I have no personal experience there.) I will recommend this book to all of my ex-coworkers (who, at this current date, are going through a "reduction in force" so several of them will have a bit of free time coming up.)

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If Dilbert's marketing department wrote a book...

If Dilbert's Marketing department wrote a book, this would be it! I laughed the whole way through and recommended it to everyone I know. If you've ever worked in the business world, you'll relate to the misadventures of this postive-minded company as it seeks to reinvent itself with all the requisite buzz words, miscommunciations and misconceptions. An easy read and light hearted. Definitely worth your time!

funniest book i've read in a long time

My Director of Marketing recommended this book to me, I read it and laughed all the way through, then I recommended it to my Sales Director, who also laughed all the way through.
For folks who have a Blackberry in their lives or live with someone who does: others need not apply...or at least understand Blackberryitis.
Four months later, I still laugh about this book. Don't miss it.

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Funny corporate satire delivered via the indispensible corporate communication tool - The "Blackberry"

This is a fun book - very funny. Anyone who's been in a corporate environment for a reasonable time will identify their 'Martin Lukes' and enjoy this book even more. I see some reviews felt the writing style using e-mail didn't work - personally I felt this added to the fun of the story and presented a slightly different reading experience. Maybe those people haven't owned a Blackberry and thus don't make the connection that allows them to more closely appreciate Martin's life and predicaments.

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Martin Lukes is a superstar at the office and at home -- just ask him. Blessed with an ego the size of Mount Everest and virtually no sense of self, he blusters through life with cheerful obliviousness. Who Moved My BlackBerry?? is the uproarious e-epistolary story of one spectacularly bad year in his life, during which Martin hires an executive coach to help him achieve "22.5 percent better than my bestest," only to inadvertently insult his new boss, watch his wife get a job that threatens to eclipse his own, and allow his BlackBerry? -- complete with racy e-mails to his secretary/lover -- to fall into the hands of his juvenile delinquent son. This novel is set in an office so dysfunctional, it?s bound to strike a chord with any nine-to-fiver. Comic schadenfreude at its best!

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