- Lucy Kellaway
Lucy Kellaway (born 1959) is the management columnist at the "
Financial Times " (FT). She also writes a weekly management column for "The Irish Times ". In addition she has 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 theBritish Press Awards 2006 she was named Columnist of the Year.Personal life
Born in
London , the daughter of Bill and Deborah Kellaway, the writer on gardening, Kellaway attendedCamden School for Girls and thenLady Margaret Hall, Oxford [cite web
last =Sale| first =Jonathan| title =Passed/Failed: An education in the life of Lucy Kellaway, agony aunt of the "Financial Times"| work =Independent on Sunday| publisher =Independent News and Media Limited| date =2007-02-01| url =http://student.independent.co.uk/future/careers_advice/article2201858.ece
accessdate =2007-12-30 ] readingPhilosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE). She is married toDavid Goodhart , editor of "Prospect", and has four children. Her sister is the critic and "Observer" writer Kate Kellaway.Column
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).Dear Lucy
She currently writes the wonderful [http://www.ft.com/dearlucy/ Dear Lucy] collumn in which she and lucky readers take the part of
agony aunt .Book
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 [ [http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/104/next-author-interview.html interview in Fast Company] ]
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". [FT Coversheet article 23 April 2007]
In 2006 she was appointed a non-executive Director of the Insurance Company Admiral plc.
Notes & References
External links
* [http://news.ft.com/comment/columnists/lucykellaway Lucy Kellaway - FT profile]
* [http://news.independent.co.uk/media/article1192125.ece Profile in the Independent]
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