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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To allow husbands and wives to co-work has always been a bad idea financially, socially, practically and emotionally, says Lucy Kellaway
Work is a bit like taking exercise. It can be boring and stressful while you are doing it but it is preferable to not working, says Lucy Kellaway
Chilling is seen by today’s children as the natural order of things. However, taking it easy in the office is not a good idea, says Lucy Kellaway
A search for the sacrosanct subjects of the workplace was almost fruitless as most of the old strictures at work are on the way out, but there are still some no-go areas, says Lucy Kellaway
Gordon Brown’s questioning over whether he takes pills to cope with the pressure reveals the new taboo in the workplace, says Lucy Kellaway
Anna Wintour's longevity in the fashion industry and hard-nosed approach provide a useful model for women executives
With their ruthlessness and brilliance at managing cash flow, hustlers such as the reformed 50 Cent can provide useful lessons to executives, says Lucy Kellaway
Bring your dog to work day may uncover some uncomfortable office truths, says Lucy Kellaway
In my book, cleanliness is not next to godliness. Necessary up to a point, but quite dull, and not something that deserves a place in management literature.
After decades of discussing women in the boardroom we should have gained enough confidence to go post-PC, argues Lucy Kellaway
As contemporaries seemed to have stopped playing the obsessive game of age comparison - its time to join them, says Lucy Kellaway
With employees paid to stay at home, the relationships between work and leisure, and money and no money are breaking down, says Lucy Kellaway
They teach lessons about work that you need to unlearn pretty smartly if you want to get ahead in business, says Lucy Kellaway
At a time when no one can afford to reward people with more money, to reward them with handouts of 'what a star' would seem a no-brainer, says Lucy Kellaway
It does one good to fail in a small way. It means one then has to work hard to catch up, and that one may have a fresher way of doing things, says Lucy Kellaway
