On our last trip to London, I bought a book called "Who moved my Blackberry?" at Heathrow. It's written by Lucy Kellaway, who writes for The Financial Times. It's built up based on the e-mail outbox of Martin Lukes, Sales Manager at a-b glöbâl. It's kind of "Adrian Mole", but Martin Lukes is 43, not 13 and 3/4. Even though, from some of the emails he sends, you can wonder a bit about his mental age. He has e-mail based coaching sessions with a coach named Pandora, and some of the mental exercises she makes him do are rather overwhelming.
Other reviews:
http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/artsandbooks.cfm?id=1704952005 (this one also comments on the language, which is hilarious in it self.)
http://www.poolonline.com/books/books91.html
http://www.hyperionbooks.com/titlepage.asp?ISBN=1401302513
http://www.economist.com/business/globalexecutive/reading/PrinterFriendly.cfm?story_id=4173432
The trick of basing the story on e-mails is probably more funny for people using e-mail daily than people like my grandparents. Anyone who has sent THE wrong message to the wrong recipient(s) is just waiting for Lukes to realise that he did push the "Reply all" button on that very incriminating message. It's great fun. Lukes is very male, very focused, very can-do, right mindset, does his blue sky thinking out of the box etc etc. Sometimes I felt quite sorry for him, and for most of his co-workers, and mostly for his wife and two sons. (If Bernt starts behaving like Martin Lukes, where will be wallops.)
Yesterday I told a friend about this book, and was going to lend it to her. But ... it's gone. I have no idea where I left it after finishing it. It must be in our appartment somewhere, but I can't find it anywhere. Maybe the title is a curse or something... It's a great read anyway, so I'll just keep looking for it some more.