Who Moved My Blackberry? - Martin Lukes > Reviews

Advantages: Some amusing moments
Disadvantages: The main character isn't particularly likeable

...is a thoroughly unpleasant person who doesn’t appear to do any work and seems to rely on everyone doing the work so that he can take the credit at the end. If he does something good, it’s mentioned and exaggerated and if he does something that isn’t so good, it’s swiftly forgotten. The fact that Martin has a wife and children is forgotten except when they might be of some benefit to him and he’s not afraid to undermine his own wife in an effort to ... Read review

Advantages: An interesting concept, strangely adictive writing style
Disadvantages: A lead character you will probably end up hating

...trips that I came across Who Moved My Blackberry™? The yellow cover drew me to it and the testimonies splattered all over the cover made me curious and so for the princely sum of £3.93 I decided to take a gamble on it. It focuses on a year in the life of A&B's Marketing director, Martin Lukes who is also the books co author. In fact Lukes himself is a creation of Financial Times columnists Lucy Kellaway, the books other joint author. At the start ... Read review

Advantages: Different
Disadvantages: Too simple

...basically centres around one guy who is so bored and stuck in a job that he wants to move on and everything around him seems to go wrong. It draws in all the false perceptions of modern business from motivational coaches to affairs with assistants. Despite the huge over exagerations made there are references to corporate life that most people will relate to. Overall I thought the book was a good read but not as good as some of the reviews made ... Read review