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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:

 The powerful effect of being remembered | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:02

The more someone can recall small talk at previous meetings, the more you like and trust them, says Lucy Kellaway.

 Your rudeness in reception may be used against you | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:33

How people arrive at and leave an office building provides rewarding insights for companies, says Lucy Kellaway.

 Motherhood is tough and intense but it is not a job | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:31

Parenting is hard work that requires well honed management skills, only you do not get paid for it, says Lucy Kellaway.

 Google CFO Pichette’s ‘I quit’ note is a classic in a dodgy genre | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:45

His Kilimanjaro-inspired resignation memo mixes work-life epiphany with pitch for job offers, says Lucy Kellaway

 Endless digital feedback will make us needy and unkind | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:16

Knowledge of how others rate us can be useful, but too much of it is unhealthy and confusing, says Lucy Kellaway

 What is worse than a blatant boast? The thirdpartybrag | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:39

The thirdpartybrag is a sort of boasting that needs exposing even more than the humblebrag as it is more widespread and more lethal, says Lucy Kellaway

 Why ‘lean in’ if laziness can be just as effective? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:31

Hard work is harming not only sleepless executives but the companies that employ them too, writes Lucy Kellaway

 It is better to fire a wrong hire as fast as you can | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:38

If a mismatch is fundamental, there is no such thing as too quick

 Wells Fargo’s happy:grumpy ratio is no way to audit staff | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:29

There are better ways to gauge employee contentment than just asking, says Lucy Kellaway

 My solution to the anguish of unanswered emails | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:32

Not responding is a sane response to inbox overload but it breeds insanity on the other side, says Lucy Kellaway

 Should falling off my bicycle stop me from leaning in? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:16

A black eye is not the best start for my non-exec director interview, says Lucy Kellaway

 How insecurity and preening kill corporate common sense | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:35

The fear of being found out is just one reason why the rot sets in but entrepreneurs offer hope, says Lucy Kellaway

 Facebook and the ‘daily average people’ formerly known as users | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:19

The company’s creation of a dedicated ‘empathy team’ does not amount to an emotional awakening, says Lucy Kellaway

 Golden Flannel of the year award | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:06:15

Under Tim Cook’s leadership, Apple succumbed to drivel, says Lucy Kellaway

 Scheduling time at work to 'think' is a brainless idea | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:04:51

AOL chief executive Tim Armstrong’s directive — to spend one-tenth of each working week thinking — is in need of a rethink.

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