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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January 21, 2008 Indulgence is no way to manage a bleating luvvie
Artists are no different to any other profession; they need to be managed too, so they can go on getting better. Lucy Kellaway delves into the business-like approach that financier Guy Hands plans to take with musicians at EMI, and asks: should you be prepared to discipline a creative at the risk of losing them?
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January 14, 2008 Bonuses for the incorrigibly childish
The granting of investment bank bonuses is a ruinously expensive, tiring and highly political game in which almost everyone emerges a loser. Here's how the game works.
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January 07, 2008 A New Year's resolution that will last
What do workplace experts and coaches tell us about making new year resolutions? And can Lucy find one she can keep?
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December 31, 2007 A year of breakthrough thinking from top twaddlists
Lucy gives out her 2007 awards for management nonsense
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December 17, 2007 Keep marriage counsellors out of the office
At work I'm a pussycat, compliant and pathetically keen to please. At home I am a tyrant, brooking no opposition from anyone. So why do people think there are parralels between good marriages and good colleagues?
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6min
December 11, 2007 Express your anger - it is all the rage
For me work is one long rage opportunity - starting with the fact that the machine that dispenses hot water for tea is on the blink.
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6min
December 03, 2007 Leaders in need of a good idea
The title 'thought leader' offends for several reasons. And when the term is used there is usually no sign of any thinking or leading going on
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6min
November 26, 2007 The headhunters' disease
Saying anything that makes any sense at all is enough to disqualify one from joining what practitioners call the 'executive search space'
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7min
November 19, 2007 Secret science of persuasion
Has Lucy been getting it wrong for 600 columns? A US professor in psychology and marketing has explained how some campaigns can work, including plying your audience with caffeine
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November 12, 2007 Reasons for being miserable at work
The three things that really make most workers unhappy are actually rather basic - they are the work, the people and the general environment
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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.