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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The more someone can recall small talk at previous meetings, the more you like and trust them, says Lucy Kellaway.
How people arrive at and leave an office building provides rewarding insights for companies, says Lucy Kellaway.
Parenting is hard work that requires well honed management skills, only you do not get paid for it, says Lucy Kellaway.
His Kilimanjaro-inspired resignation memo mixes work-life epiphany with pitch for job offers, says Lucy Kellaway
Knowledge of how others rate us can be useful, but too much of it is unhealthy and confusing, says Lucy Kellaway
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
Hard work is harming not only sleepless executives but the companies that employ them too, writes Lucy Kellaway
If a mismatch is fundamental, there is no such thing as too quick
There are better ways to gauge employee contentment than just asking, says Lucy Kellaway
Not responding is a sane response to inbox overload but it breeds insanity on the other side, says Lucy Kellaway
A black eye is not the best start for my non-exec director interview, says Lucy Kellaway
The fear of being found out is just one reason why the rot sets in but entrepreneurs offer hope, says Lucy Kellaway
The company’s creation of a dedicated ‘empathy team’ does not amount to an emotional awakening, says Lucy Kellaway
Under Tim Cook’s leadership, Apple succumbed to drivel, says Lucy Kellaway
AOL chief executive Tim Armstrong’s directive — to spend one-tenth of each working week thinking — is in need of a rethink.