FT Listen to Lucy

By Financial Times

Financial Times management columnist Lucy Kellaway pokes fun at management fads and jargon, and celebrates the ups and downs of office life.

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August 01, 2011 Anti-PowerPoint revolutionaries unite
The ubiquitous piece of software can leave one feeling grumpy and passive and in no frame of mind for proper work, says Lucy Kellaway
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August 01, 2011 Unrequited love and corporate idiocy
When the new head of Tesco in the UK said he wanted staff to love customers, I followed up by visiting my local store, says Lucy Kellaway
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July 06, 2011 Cheers to those with a glass half-empty
In business, optimism is good and pessimism bad. Optimists have a monopoly on success, on happiness and even on longevity. Pessimists, with their long faces and dark thoughts are pariahs, thought fit for nothing in the gung-ho corporate world except possibly careers in journalism (where bad news is good news). Otherwise, they have a choice between the couch, the closet or the comedy circuit.
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July 06, 2011 You’ve got mail but you need to get your life back
Everyone agrees that we spend too much of our lives e-mailing. Everyone agrees that the answer is to write fewer, shorter, clearer messages. Everyone has known this for years. Yet instead of getting better, the problem goes on getting worse.
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July 06, 2011 A need to please can get you into trouble
Two different women, both of them up to their eyes in different sorts of trouble, last week put forward the same excuse to explain lapses in their behaviour. Each said she was suffering from a new debilitating condition – a compulsion to please people.
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June 11, 2011 Path to happiness runs through the office
It is a terrific relief to find that the true path to happiness involves doing what most of us do most of the time, whether we like it or not – work
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June 04, 2011 E-mail contract is not worth the kilobytes
Legal disclaimers on e-mails are not only unenforced but unenforceable – making one wonder why they are so popular
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May 28, 2011 The wonders worked by womanhood
Lagarde is right to play the female card – this is the best time there has been to be a woman with talent, charm, and an appetite for advancement, says Lucy Kellaway
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May 25, 2011 Despite the offer, I won’t fill in for DSK
I don’t like the idea of deputising for someone who was sorting out the financial crisis and might have been president of France, says Lucy Kellaway.
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May 11, 2011 Must I remember my kids’ ages just to log on?
In the early days of computers I never forgot my password because the top secret word I’d chosen was ‘Kellaway’, which I found could be effortlessly recalled even in the most fraught moments, says Lucy Kellaway.
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FAQs about FT Listen to Lucy:

How many episodes does FT Listen to Lucy have?

The podcast currently has 441 episodes available.