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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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 Think you work hard? Bet you don’t. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:09

The disease of overwork is partly in our minds and it has a bearing on how stressed we feel

 In defence of sycophantic wage slaves | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:24

Luke Johnson is wrong. Flattery is crucial to survival in the corporate world and beyond

 My top tip: ignore all other top tips | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:28

Lucy Kellaway says pieces of advice are positioning statements that tell the world about the values the issuer holds

 Public speaking and removing my jeans on stage | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:37

Your performance is only the half of it. The rest is down to the early dynamic with the audience, says Lucy Kellaway

 Have you heard that gossip is good? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:21

The true value of such morsels has nothing to do with the subject and is all to do with purveyor

 Big Brother can watch me work any day | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:01

So long as everyone knows they are being monitored and why, it is not such a bad idea

 Small talk makes a big difference | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:08

If you don’t chat, people don’t like you much. So if women keep quiet at work, it matters

 Lessons in success from Eton and the Tiger Mother | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:36

Now we know why so many dyslexics and people who lost a parent young make it to the top

 Colleagues and bosses are not your family | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:34

Lucy Kellaway says the idea that employees are part of one big, corporate family is delusional

 I want to put my whole workplace on a new diet | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:20

Lucy Kellaway says she is ditching al desko lunches. Anticipation, ritual and smugness point the way ahead

 Cheer up, this is a golden age for office workers | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:21

For privileged professionals at least, working life is better than it has ever been

 Men should stop losing sleep over their loss of face | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:14

Lucy Kellaway says women may be more resilient, as we don’t take minor slights as a heinous attack on our egos

 Gongs for the year’s greatest guff | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:06:14

All winners of the 2013 Golden Flannel Awards are exceptional, original, giants of jargon

 Why hair is a feminist issue | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:29

The world’s most successful business women have impeccable hairdos.

 Views my own: five Twitter bio clichés to avoid | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:55

Laboured quirkiness is common and Stephen Fry may be to blame with his ‘Prince of Swimwear’

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