tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-663998076511109850.post4861726853282462412..comments2023-11-05T04:33:11.265-08:00Comments on Maison Fleury: Martin Lukes Goes to Jailadt43wt342http://www.blogger.com/profile/07557608193924044365noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-663998076511109850.post-55914914010483851112009-04-12T09:56:00.000-07:002009-04-12T09:56:00.000-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-663998076511109850.post-7849312951223452012008-01-25T05:32:00.000-08:002008-01-25T05:32:00.000-08:00Sad, but true, I was completely taken in by the en...Sad, but true, I was completely taken in by the entire spread (never saw it before today) to the point of emailing my real-estate agent:<BR/><BR/>"Virginia, have you ever heard of this Martin Lukes fellow? Ex-CEO of a-b global and resides in Atlanta. Wonder where he lives and if they'll be selling the house for a deal, now that he's off to prison."<BR/><BR/>Only in googling a-b global did I get hep to the jive. This is my favorite summary from KW Schreiter on Amazon.com:<BR/><BR/>"Lucy Kellaway's fictional 'Martin Lukes' character is the delightfully vapid, narcissistic director of marketing at a-b global who appears in Thursday editions of London's Financial Times newspaper.... Instead of doing actual work, Martin flatters superiors, flirts with personal assistants and offers unsolicited self-promotion to everyone. He hires CoachworX! for an Executive Bronze Life Coaching Program to 'achieve performance levels that are 22.5 percent better than the very best I can be.'<BR/>a-b global's CEO gives a speech to staff and investors from a golf course as the share price plummets and signs his e-mails 'I love you all'. The firm spends over $20 million on Project Rebrand and hires 12 rebranding consultants from Beyond the Box, but eventually obtains its new name from employee suggestions generated during a corporate 'on line jamming session'. Martin then spearheads the ill-fated Project Boxer Shorts to publicly donate obsolete corporate apparel featuring the old logo to homeless shelters."<BR/><BR/>All the bestest,<BR/>Nathalie<BR/>(willing to admit when she's taken in by a good story)Nathaliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01122474375041638360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-663998076511109850.post-41255731310264398462008-01-25T03:22:00.000-08:002008-01-25T03:22:00.000-08:00Your post was so straight I wonder if you know tha...Your post was so straight I wonder if you know that Martin Lukes is fictional. The entire FT is in on it and they decided to do the entire coverage straight even though he doesn't exist. <BR/><BR/>The columnist seems to want to end it and went out with a bang.<BR/><BR/>I've been following it for years, but you can get a quick summary on <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Lukes" REL="nofollow">Wikipedia</A>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-663998076511109850.post-3712665644935791932008-01-25T03:06:00.000-08:002008-01-25T03:06:00.000-08:00Indeed, it is exciting to see Atlanta on the inter...Indeed, it is exciting to see Atlanta on the international scene ;-)<BR/><BR/>Apparently the tens of thousand of USD worth of jewelery was still successfully argued by the lawyers to be a legitimate business expense.<BR/><BR/>I've yet to figure out how that works.Juha Lindforshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10913597885618265996noreply@blogger.com