Anna Wintour's longevity in the fashion industry and hard-nosed approach provide a useful model for women executives

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With their ruthlessness and brilliance at managing cash flow, hustlers such as the reformed 50 Cent can provide useful lessons to executives, says Lucy Kellaway

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Bring your dog to work day may uncover some uncomfortable office truths, says Lucy Kellaway

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In my book, cleanliness is not next to godliness. Necessary up to a point, but quite dull, and not something that deserves a place in management literature.

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After decades of discussing women in the boardroom we should have gained enough confidence to go post-PC, argues Lucy Kellaway

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As contemporaries seemed to have stopped playing the obsessive game of age comparison - its time to join them, says Lucy Kellaway

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With employees paid to stay at home, the relationships between work and leisure, and money and no money are breaking down, says Lucy Kellaway

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They teach lessons about work that you need to unlearn pretty smartly if you want to get ahead in business, says Lucy Kellaway

 

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It does one good to fail in a small way. It means one then has to work hard to catch up, and that one may have a fresher way of doing things, says Lucy Kellaway

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It was a great morale boost that this time I was victim rather than perpetrator, and people have been astoundingly sympathetic, says Lucy Kellaway

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