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Listen to Lucy

Summary: Lucy Kellaway, the FT's management columnist, pokes fun at management fads and jargon, and celebrates the ups and downs of office life. You can find more of Lucy Kellaway's columns from the Financial Times on our website and listen to more episodes of Listen to Lucy on iTunes, Stitcher, Audioboom or Soundcloud.

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 Why I’m inspired by the veteran Cosmo girl | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:13

Lucy Kellaway discovers that Helen Gurley Brown had a great deal of exceedingly sensible, realistic things to say about work

 Why I’m inspired by the veteran Cosmo girl | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:13

Helen Gurley Brown had a great deal of exceedingly sensible, realistic things to say about work, writes Lucy Kellaway

 Jobs, motherhood and varieties of wrong | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:05

The FT's Lucy Kellaway says that there is no balance. It’s a continuous, fluid game of survival, the rules of which are unclear

 London’s Olympics are a workers’ curse | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:05

To stage this festival of sporting competitiveness every other sort of competition is being stifled says the FT's Lucy Kellaway

 Why do we believe we get what we pay for? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:08

More expensive does not necessarily mean better, says Lucy Kellaway.

 Burberry chief’s top mix of brand and bunkum | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:34

The FT's Lucy Kellaway says that Angela Ahrendts’ language meets the most important criterion for jargon – it is utterly impenetrable.

 Ball boys demonstrate power of training | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:03

Wimbledon’s teenage volunteer training has produced strong results, says Lucy Kellaway

 Don’t aim for the top unless you feel lucky | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:01

We can study Bill Gates all we like but we’re not going to end up where he is, says the FT's Lucy Kellaway

 The thin line between thick skin and complacency | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:13

It is a CEO’s job to take things very personally, says the FT's Lucy Kellaway

 Manual work holds the key to spiritual bliss | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:22

Upholstery has shown Lucy Kellaway that losing yourself is a far better idea than finding yourself

 A dose of dullness is good for business | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:31

Being boring is no barrier to great leadership, says the FT's Lucy Kellaway

 Small mistakes attract the biggest trouble | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:06

Lucy Kellaway on why smart people will always make stupid errors

 Beware the wild management consultants | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:04:55

The story of Bain and the buffalo makes one question business travel says Lucy Kellaway

 Flattery will get you what you want | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:02

Lucy Kellaway argues that facts have little traction in the art of persuasion

 My logo obsession is more than a game | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:14

Lucy Kellaway discovers that our stock of brands is so ingrained that they have become part of who we are

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