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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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  • Copyright: Copyright The Financial Times Ltd 2009. 'FT' and 'Financial Times' are trademarks of the Financial Times.

Podcasts:

 Bezos is a disrupter, only not at home | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:04:32

The vitamins-socks-wife combo was not quite Watergate but hints at something slightly creepy

 Abuse of language keeps going forward | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:26

Talking like a regular human being does not guarantee success

 With jobs, make sure it pays to play | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:04:49

To work for free means you value yourself at nothing, and that should make you feel bad indeed

 Words that warn you not to open an email | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:40

What is the most off-putting thing you can write in the subject line of an email? Lucy Kellaway has compiled a list, in ascending order of obnoxiousness.

 How the Rolling Stones keep time on their side | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:27

Lucy Kellaway says the stubbornly enduring group stays that way by flouting the rules in every success manual

 The buzz of hot-desking in a coffee shop | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:08

A ‘tall’ beige milk comes with unlimited table, chair and WiFi – but my back is killing me, says Lucy Kellaway

 The New Lady of Threadneedle Street | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:24

Lucy Kellaway says the position of chief operating officer signals a sad succumbing to the language of corporate America

 A cup of tea may be the best way to engage employees | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:05

People may come to dislike their jobs a little less, but seldom learn to love them

 Wake up! Time for a good night’s sleep | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:09

Sleeplessness is the biggest reason for me turning up crabby and inefficient in the mornings

 Clearing your email is no act of virtue | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:23

I have no folders, no system. That is because I don’t need one, says Lucy Kellaway

 Graduates need a dose of reality | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:04:57

Lucy Kellaway says students need not change the world – getting a job will be an achievement

 A meeting by any other name isn’t worth going to | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:18

Calling it a summit, forum or ideas exchange doesn’t make a gathering any more important, says Lucy Kellaway

 Grades don’t make the grade at the office | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:09

Lucy Kellaway says her test shows that those with firsts are neither better nor worse than those with seconds

 Bad is the new good – except that it isn’t | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:18

Lucy Kellaway says the craze for taking something we all think is bad and telling us that it’s good is crazy

 The business case for hiring the fat and the ugly | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:29

Studies say the good looking are more successful but that is not a good way to recruit, says Lucy Kellaway

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