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 Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger’s exit shows how our aversion to brown-nosing has got lost along the way
Two new trends are emerging in greetings, both bad. Sign-offs are getting worse too, writes Lucy Kellaway.
Few covet the job of middle manager, and who could blame them? says Lucy Kellaway
We sometimes envy the trappings of other people’s jobs. But the work itself? Never, says Lucy Kellaway
The chatroom banter of the forex traders shows little has changed in the banking culture, says Lucy Kellaway
Sport does not broaden an executive’s worldview. Virtually everything else does, writes Lucy Kellaway.
It's time to flirt with Tinder for a new approach to recruitment, says Lucy Kellaway
Employers should specify ‘being conscientious’ as the top skill they are looking for, says Lucy Kellaway
Hiring events should not turn into hen nights, says Lucy Kellaway
A fixed holiday entitlement tells us it's OK to take a break - even though our work is far from done, says
Years of drudgery have a way of taking the shine off brilliance, says Lucy Kellaway
McKinsey's predictions will come to nothing, says Lucy Kellaway
Taking drugs, getting drunk, smoking roll-ups help at being cool and are still just as bad for you, says Lucy Kellaway.
Users of electronic calendars can take six times longer to scribble something down says Lucy Kellaway.
To exclude a job candidate simply because they have transposed two letters makes no sense, says Lucy Kellaway.
