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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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Podcasts:

 We all deserve to be told the terrible truth | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:05

‘Protected conversations’ between employees and bosses are a good idea but they won’t make any difference in practice, says Lucy Kellaway

 A guide to life in the fast cycle lane | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:18

Thinking strategically about your life isn’t necessarily such a great idea, says Lucy Kellaway

 Stick to the rules and abusing your colleagues is OK | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:16

So long as top people in the City are continuing to behave in an uncivilised fashion, the world as we know it isn’t coming to an end, says Lucy Kellaway

 Copying, the mother of the best inventions | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:11

No one seems interested in teaching us how to get better at mimicry, despite it being the key to success, says Lucy Kellaway

 Management guff lands in China | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:27

When the guff germ arrives big time in China, my prediction is that they will be better at dealing with it than westerners, says Lucy Kellaway.

 BlackBerry blackout left me happily unlinked | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:04:58

Most email messages are exceedingly stupid, and none more so than the ones that arrive from LinkedIn, says Lucy Kellaway

 Everyone benefits from a beast in the boardroom | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:13

All companies need someone on board who stirs things up and couldn’t care less what people think, just don’t confuse it with ego, says Lucy Kellaway.

 Forget doing the ‘math’ and stick to proper English | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:21

All sorts of things are just plain wrong when translated from maths to business talk, says Lucy Kellaway,

 Pretenders to power are the most dangerous | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:11

Power may corrupt, but absolute power corrupts much less than partial power – as too many lower down the pecking order show, says Lucy Kellaway

 My cure for an outbreak of weak excuse tendency | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:28

Sufferers from WET aren’t skiving or lying; they just have an inadequate notion of what it means to be reliable, says Lucy Kellaway.

 Bartz flubs her lines as she leaves the Yahoo stage | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:09

The sacking of Carol Bartz last week made theatre of the most superior kind. Watching the former chief executive of Yahoo go down spitting obscenities was exhilarating in an immediate sort of way, says Lucy Kellaway

 Do teddies have a place in the boardroom? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:04

Research from an expert in ethics at Harvard University suggests people behave better when teddy bears are in the room, says Lucy Kellaway

 Chief Googler’s ‘amazing’ clichés are dull and void | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:34

Larry Page’s thinking on his decision to spend $12.5bn on some mobile handsets, patents and set-top boxes is woolly at best, says Lucy Kellway.

 Age-old bonds make the office tick | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:04:52

Is working with people of different ages really a problem?

 Six little words and one very big question | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:36

What keeps you in your job? What would your six-word answer be?

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