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Authors: Lucy Kellaway

MARTIN LUKES AND LUCY KELLAWAY

Pandora's Acknowledgments

I would like to celebrate the work of my friends and mentors from the coaching community who have taught me so much, and whose teachings I have passed on to Martin and to many coaches down the years.

Above all I would like to mention Steve Covey, whose funeral exercise is one of the most profoundly moving and revealing lessons of all. I would also like to thank David Taylor, Laura Berman Fortgang, Paul McKenna, Pam Richardson, Antony Robbins, and Arielle Essex for the inspiration I have garnered from you and your books. I have learned more about life from you than you will ever know.

About the Author

Lucy Kellaway
is a regular columnist at the
Financial Times
of London. She created the character Martin Lukes in that column, the
Financial Times'
most popular.

Praise for
WHO MOVED MY BLACKBERRY?

“Few people are as well-equipped as business columnist Lucy Kellaway to write a novel that pokes fun at the corporate world.”

—
Daily Telegraph
(London)

“It matches the very best in satire. If there's one book every ambitious manager should read, it's this one.”

—
Evening Standard
(London)

“This novel is a pitch-perfect satire of corporate life in the 21st century.”

—
Guardian
(London)

“This book should become an instant classic. It will certainly sit on my shelf of business blockbusters.”

—
Financial Times Magazine
(London)

“Blissfully funny, hideously sharp, a comic tour-de-force.”

—Craig Brown, BBC

Copyright

Copyright © 2006 Lucy Kellaway

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition of
this book as follows:

Kellaway,
Lucy.
        Who moved
my BlackBerry? / by Lucy Kellaway.—1st
ed.
            p.
cm.
        ISBN
1-4013-0251-3
        1.
Office politics—Fiction. I. Title.

    PR6111.E49W48
2006
    823′.92—dc22

2005044780

FIRST TRADE PAPERBACK EDITION

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