Nearly half of the chief executives of Britain's biggest companies have gained awards for their prowess in the field of sport, says Lucy Kellaway.

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To mark the retirement of Bill Gates, inventor of Windows, Lucy Kellaway decides to turn off her computer and Blackberry, and write and think with a fountain pen. Can she survive?

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One might think that the American purposeful complaint is better than pointless bellyaching, but in fact both can prove to be highly enjoyable.

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I have been out collecting a botanical array of dangerous workplace blooms, words that can spoil our day, our week - or our career.

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I am running a competition in which a chief executive has to woo his customers with a letter. My finalists are Vikram Pandit and Johnnie Boden.

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Being in love is like being on drugs. Do we let people who are off their heads on cocaine make important decisions? Of course not.

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The only answer to the growing problem of worker unhappiness is to stop trying to find a solution and get on with what you do.

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Even though in offices 1968 did not happen until about 1988, the ideas of the 1960s still affect how we behave and think at work.

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In truth we don't have the foggiest idea what life would be like if women ran the show. So far we have only isolated, untypical examples.

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Win-win? Instead of pretending that everything is a win, the good leader needs to get better about wining and losing

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