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:
E-mail is much derided for interrupting our day's work, but it is as nothing when compared to the noisy, intrusive, brutal phone.
The National Trust gave its 5,000 employees a leap day holiday - but they had to spend time making their own homes more environmentally friendly. Should companies force us to be charitable?
At the annual get-together of the alumni of JPMorgan I realised that part of my life may have been weird but it was not an irrelevance, says Lucy Kellaway
When we were young we had something to prove. As we grow older, we realise that just as few doors are open to us as when we were young.
A local shoe mender has unknowingly supplied me with all the delightful things that large service companies are striving in vain to provide.
An e-mail from Accenture's group chief executive is troubling because it shows top people write jargon even when they think no clients are looking.
Artists are no different to any other profession; they need to be managed too, so they can go on getting better. Lucy Kellaway delves into the business-like approach that financier Guy Hands plans to take with musicians at EMI, and asks: should you be prepared to discipline a creative at the risk of losing them?
The granting of investment bank bonuses is a ruinously expensive, tiring and highly political game in which almost everyone emerges a loser. Here's how the game works.
What do workplace experts and coaches tell us about making new year resolutions? And can Lucy find one she can keep?
Lucy gives out her 2007 awards for management nonsense
At work I'm a pussycat, compliant and pathetically keen to please. At home I am a tyrant, brooking no opposition from anyone. So why do people think there are parralels between good marriages and good colleagues?
For me work is one long rage opportunity - starting with the fact that the machine that dispenses hot water for tea is on the blink.
The title 'thought leader' offends for several reasons. And when the term is used there is usually no sign of any thinking or leading going on
Saying anything that makes any sense at all is enough to disqualify one from joining what practitioners call the 'executive search space'
Has Lucy been getting it wrong for 600 columns? A US professor in psychology and marketing has explained how some campaigns can work, including plying your audience with caffeine
