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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:

 It’s time to stop stressing about stress | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:16

It is quite wrong to think about it as the enemy, says the FT's Lucy Kellaway

 Fatherhood is no degree in management | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:08

Lucy Kellaway says lessons learnt from family life can pay off at work

 Why I’m proud to have no Klout | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:14

Lucy Kellaway says it is a nonsense to boil down something as qualitative as influence into a single number

 Heard the one about women at the office? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:04:50

If laughter varies with gender, it varies even more with power, says Lucy Kellaway

 Starbucks’ tea takeover is a grande of guff | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:36

Lucy Kellaway says the ubiquitous coffee chain cannot be forgiven for the way it grinds out its message

 Marriages and jobs require work and love | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:30

When it comes to the quest for the perfect match, it helps to keep your expectations real, says Lucy Kellaway

 Time-wasting tips have wasted my time | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:27

Lucy Kellaway finds that apparently a game of ‘Angry Birds’ is good for us

 New workers want the same things we did | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:13

The world of work is supposed to have changed beyond recognition since I started out on a bank's graduate training programme three decades ago, but actually it hasn’t. For graduate trainees, nothing of any importance has changed at all.

 Embrace the network effect | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:04:54

Lucy Kellaway says alumni connections are not a problem at all – in fact they are a thoroughly good thing.

 The question with interviews is why we bother | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:09

Study after study shows an interview is not much better than picking people at random.

 A rifle through my colleagues’ drawers | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:16

Lucy Kellaway says it’s not just the objects that are telling – it’s the juxtaposition

 For creativity, forget the funky office | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:14

With design so overbearing at Google’s London HQ, the individual can’t get a look in, says the FT's Lucy Kellaway.

 Road test CEOs to avoid corporate crashes | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:05

Lucy Kellaway says that top executives should take an annual hubris test

 Good enough is better than perfection | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:21

Anyone batty enough to aim for perfection in their work isn’t a force for good. Such obsession comes with a dark underside.

 Why I can’t ‘like’ Facebook popularity contest | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:41

Lucy Kellaway says the joke should be on the even more stupid people who voice their approval in their millions

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