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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:

 ‘Hello there’: eight lessons from Microsoft’s awful job loss memo | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:48

Stephen Elop’s job-loss announcement is a case study in how not to write, think or lead, says Lucy Kellaway.

 Why we are more vocal about loo rolls than our jobs | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:20

People feel compelled to review everyday items but are more reticent regarding their work, says Lucy Kellaway.

 Professional services pitches are a pantomime | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:17

The only excuse for a beauty contest is that you meet the individual people involved, says Lucy Kellaway

 Sheryl Sandberg adds to the glut of non-apologies | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:16

Lucy Kellaway suspects that the vast majority of office apologies, delivered by both sexes, are insincere

 Summer, sports and strategies for avoiding work | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:14

Shirking is necessary for survival and is a vital skill, not only in early July, but all year

 Diversity that makes everyone seem the same | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:04

A wide cross section brings with it the danger of falling within the narrow confines of groupthink

 Descent into drivel is a sign of Apple’s fall | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:34

The ugly words in an Apple job advertisement suggest the group has got too big to hang on to what once made it different

 It is dangerous to feel passion for your work | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:22

All the average employer wants is people who like their job and care about it.

 A lesson from kindergarten on executives’ bonuses | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:26

To reward bosses for working late or reading the briefing papers doesn’t seem quite right

 Jill Abramson's New York Times tattoo points way to wearable CVs | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:27

Why bother with introductions when you can tell your story on your forehead - or even your bottom?

 Divorce is a risk when she earns more than him | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:29

Lucy Kellaway says these marriages tend to work when there is no need to prop up a male ego

 Banks should be more like the FT | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:10

Lucy Kellaway says there is a need for a new investment bank that would sell itself on low pay

 We need new excuses for not replying to emails | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:25

Lucy Kellaway says technology is steadily ruining all the old favourites

 Nine to five: great way to make a living | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:35

Only a strict routine can stop our jobs silting up our lives, says Lucy Kellaway

 My future as a middle-aged grad trainee | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:27

If I changed career now I would put my back into it like never before, says Lucy Kellaway

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