LUCY KELLAWAY

'Lucy Kellaway' (born 1959) is the management columnist at the Financial Times (FT). She has also worked as energy correspondent, Brussels correspondent, a Lex writer, and interviewer of business people and celebrities, all with the FT. She has become well known for her pointed commentaries on the limitations of modern corporate culture. At the British Press Awards 2006 she was named Columnist of the Year.
For many years she was known for her column ''Lucy Kellaway on Management'' which came out on Mondays in the FT. In addition, some years later, a satirical column purporting to be the emails of Martin Lukes, a senior manager in a company called A&B (later expensively re-branded to a-b glöbâl) would appear on Thursdays. It was revealed in 2005 that these were also written by Kellaway (see below).
She wrote ''Sense and Nonsense in the Office'' in 1999 and a satirical novel in emails: ''Martin Lukes: Who Moved My BlackBerry™'' (July 2005).

Martin Lukes stands for every male manager trying to scramble to the top of the greasy pole. He is driven by ambition. He has little self-doubt--and even less self-knowledge. He thinks of himself as highly emotionally intelligent but has no idea how he is coming across. He is hungry for money, but more hungry for recognition. He wants people to love him and to be dazzled by his ability to "think outside the square," yet the ideas he comes up with are phony and pedestrian. He is a shameless player of the political game who manages by being a world-class brownnoser to disguise the fact that his native abilities are not quite as world-class as he would like^[1]

Born in London, the daughter of Bill and Deborah Kellaway, she attended Oxford University reading Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE). She is married to David Goodhart, editor of ''Prospect'', and has four children.
On the launch of a re-designed FT in April 2007 the Editor listed Kellaway (and Lukes) as the 2nd of 5 key items of unique content as reasons for reading the FT^[2]
In 2006 she was appointed a non-executive Director of the Insurance Company Admiral plc.

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Notes & References

1. interview in Fast Company
2. FT Coversheet article 23 April 2007

External links

★ Lucy Kellaway - FT profile

★ Profile in the Independent