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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April 19, 2009 How to take safe revenge on the boss
Lucy Kellaway says anti-boss rage is more in vogue than it has ever been in her lifetime. She watches the display with alternate surges of glee and discomfort
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April 06, 2009 When chore-chore means war-war
The trick is not for husbands and wives to get to a 50:50 share when doing the housework. It is to stop counting and to stop minding, says Lucy Kellaway
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March 30, 2009 Career counsellors should find a new job
The whole idea of advice is hopeless: the best tests in the world would not help, as there is no formula for matching round pegs to round holes, writes Lucy Kellaway
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March 23, 2009 Work is the subject songwriters are labouring to avoid
Work has been overlooked in pop lyrics: there are office novels, office sitcoms and office movies, but almost no office songs, writes Lucy Kellaway
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March 16, 2009 There is a Fred Goodwin or Dick Fuld in all of us
There are many theories about the mess we are in, but it is simply what you get when you take human beings and put them in an organisation, says Lucy Kellaway
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March 10, 2009 Lord Lucan and the vanished charm of desks
What has happened to the office desk over the past few hundred years tells of the fall of the craftsman and the rise of Ikea but it also says much about what has happened to the penpusher and office worker, says Lucy Kellaway.
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March 02, 2009 Management metaphors are out for the count
I have seen an article that marks the first evidence from the management guff industry that a soft approach is finally on its way out and a hard one is on its way in.
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February 23, 2009 Welcome back, semicolon; cu l8r, informality
The pendulum has swung away from slouchy language towards correct usage of punctuation in emails, helped by the recession.
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February 16, 2009 Stay smart and pull your socks up
To survive this economic downturn we need to smarten up and buckle down. We really need to get some work under our belts.
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February 09, 2009 My new guilt as a selfish working mother
An idea about the happiness of happiness that had given me solace these last two years has been rudely overturned by the conclusions of a report, 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.