FT Work & Careers

By Financial Times

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The Financial Times work and careers podcast: showcasing the latest business insights from top executives to experts Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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FT Work & Careers episodes:

12.11.2018
Leadership and the importance of purpose
In the final episode of three recorded at this year’s Global Peter Drucker Forum, the FT’s management editor Andrew Hill speaks to Jean-Dominique Senard, chief executive of Michelin, the French tyre manufacturer, and Namita Narkar, a marketing manager in the...
12.06.2018
A CEO and serial entrepreneur on how careers evolve
In the second of three podcast episodes recorded at this year’s Global Peter Drucker Forum on management, the FT’s management editor Andrew Hill speaks to Isabelle Kocher, chief executive of Engie, and Hermann Arnold, co-founder of Haufe-umantis to exchange ideas...
12.05.2018
Paul Polman and a leader-to-be in conversation on the future of work
In the first of three podcasts recorded at the Global Peter Drucker Forum on management, FT management editor Andrew Hill asks Paul Polman, Unilever executive, and Wasima Khan, legal lexicographer and law lecturer at The Hague University of Applied Sciences to...
11.15.2018
Business book podcast: how to get your proposal published
In this podcast, Andrew Hill discusses how to best bring a business book proposal to publication with Georgina Laycock, publisher for non-fiction at John Murray, Joel Rickett, deputy publisher at Ebury and Bracken Bower Prize judge, and Jonathan Conway, whose...
11.06.2018
Business Book podcast: radical ideas for the future
Ahead of the launch of the 2018 FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year prize, this series discusses the six shortlisted books with its authors. In this final episode, Helen Barrett, the FT’s Work & Careers editor, and FT...
10.29.2018
Business Book podcast: Extreme enterprise
Ahead of the launch of the 2018 FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year prize, this fifth series discusses the six shortlisted books with its authors. In this first episode, Jonathan Derbyshire, the FT’s executive opinion editor, talks to...
10.21.2018
Business Book podcast: capitalism, the past, present and future
Ahead of the launch of the 2018 FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year prize, this fifth series discusses the six shortlisted books with its authors. In this first episode, FT columnists Andrew Hill and Martin Wolf talk to...
10.04.2018
The Career Changers
The FT followed five people over the course of a year as they changed career in the middle of their working lives. In this final episode, Emma Jacobs hears about the challenges they have faced and their successes. Hosted on...
09.26.2018
Asia business schools are on an evolutionary march
There has been a shift from sending students overseas to study to offering them an MBA at home... not least in China, where the government is taking an active interest Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
09.13.2018
Podcast: what I wish I had known at 18
They are at the top of their game, but they too were once just starting out. As students head to British universities in the next few weeks, we asked some of the speakers at the FT’s Weekend Festival to tell...
08.30.2018
Meet the career changers
The FT is following five people over the course of a year as they change career in the middle of their working lives. In this fifth of five episodes, Aimee Keane meets Anthony Rondinone, a musician turned software developer. Hosted...
07.25.2018
How to talk about money at work
How do you know when to ask for a promotion? And what is the best way to react if you think you are being underpaid? Knowing how to talk about money at work can give you a career advantage. Join...
07.21.2018
Meet the Career Changers
The FT is following five people over the course of a year, as they change career in the middle of their working lives. In this fourth of five episodes, Emma Jacobs meets Thomas Davies, who gave up a six-figure salary...
07.10.2018
How to switch off for summer
It's holiday time. But can you walk away from the office? Should you ignore emails, or is it wise to check in? Join author and professor of organisational behaviour André Spicer as he talks to FT writers Emma Jacobs and...
06.13.2018
Social class at work
The FT's Emma Jacobs talks to academic and author Joan Williams about her book White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America and why class in the workplace matters. As someone who has devoted most of her working life to...
06.02.2018
Meet the Career Changers
The FT is following five people over the course of a year as they change career in the middle of their working lives. In this third of five episodes, Emma Jacobs meets Collette Altaparmakova, a 40-year-old former stay-at-home mum who...
05.07.2018
Best practice when LBGT staff work abroad
What are the main challenges you face moving with your job as a gay person? FT journalists Emma Jacobs and Josh Spero talk to Patrick Rowe from Accenture. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
04.24.2018
Fit Hacks talk about the London Marathon
FT journalists Laura Noonan and Patrick McGee completed their 2018 marathon in London. Isabel Berwick caught up with them on their fitness goals and what they will be doing next Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
04.13.2018
Business Book podcast: the office as fiction
Ahead of the launch of the 2018 FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year prize, this fourth series explores how to live and work better in a tech-driven age. In this sixth and final episode, Isabel Berwick, and Andrew...
03.28.2018
Business book podcast: 1,000 years of work
Ahead of the launch of the 2018 FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year prize, this fourth series explores how to live and work better in a tech-driven age. In this fifth episode, Isabel Berwick, and Andrew Hill talk...
03.22.2018
How MBA students get internships
Students from five business schools participated in the annual FT MBA quiz. The Work and Careers team caught up with a few participants and asked them about the best strategy for choosing - and landing - a good internship. Hosted...
03.21.2018
JFK’s long-lost speech
Sound engineers at a company called CereProc in Edinburgh have spliced together bits and pieces of John F Kennedy’s recorded speeches to recreate one of the most famous speeches that was never delivered: the 20-minute address that President Kennedy was...
03.20.2018
Business book podcast: Re-engage with your job
Ahead of the launch of the 2018 FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year prize, this fourth series explores how to live and work better in a tech-driven age. In this fourth episode, Isabel Berwick, and Helen Barrett talk...
03.18.2018
Find purpose at work
Columnist Emma Jacobs talks to Daniel Cable, professor at London Business School, about his new book Alive at Work. The organisational behaviour expert explains experimentation is vital to help employees feel revitalised and offset the blues of the daily grind. Hosted on...
03.01.2018
Business book podcast: The tyranny of metrics
Ahead of the launch of the 2018 FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year prize in the spring, this fourth series explores how to live and work better in a tech-driven age. In the third episode, Isabel Berwick, and...
02.22.2018
Meet the Career Changers
The FT is following five people over the course of a year as they change career in the middle of their working lives. In this second of five episodes, Emma Jacobs meets Reny Morsch, a 51-year-old former forex trader who...
02.13.2018
Business book podcast: Digital detox
Ahead of the launch of the 2018 FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year prize in the spring, this fourth series explores how to live and work better in a tech-driven age. In the second episode, Isabel Berwick, and...
02.05.2018
Business book podcast: Work less to achieve more
Ahead of the launch of the 2018 FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year prize in the spring, this fourth series explores how to live and work better in a tech-driven age. In the first episode, Isabel Berwick, Andrew...
12.07.2017
Meet the Career Changers
The FT is following five people over the course of a year as they change career in the middle of their working lives. In this first of five episodes, Emma Jacobs meets Kimberley Davenport, who is trying to adapt to...
11.14.2017
How to publish a business book
How do you take your business book from proposal to publication? Find out in this bonus episode to celebrate the FT and McKinsey Bracken Bower Prize for best business book proposal of the year by a young business writer. Andrew...
10.31.2017
Business Book Challenge: episode 6
To celebrate the FT’s Business Book of the Year Award, the team talk to the six shortlisted writers. In this sixth episode, Andrew Hill, management editor, and Emma Jacobs, work and careers writer, hear from Ellen Pao, author of Reset,...
10.26.2017
Business Book Challenge: episode 5
To celebrate the FT’s Business Book of the Year Award, the team talk to the six shortlisted writers. In this fifth episode, Isabel Berwick, assistant features editor, and Andrew Hill, management editor, hear from Andrew Lo, author of Adaptive Markets,...
10.19.2017
Business Book Challenge: episode 4
To celebrate the FT’s Business Book of the Year Award, the team talk to the six shortlisted writers. In this fourth episode, Helen Barrett, work and careers editor, and Andrew Hill, management editor, hear from Brian Merchant, author of The...
10.12.2017
Business Book Challenge: episode 3
To celebrate the FT’s Business Book of the Year Award, the team talk to the six shortlisted writers. In this third episode, Helen Barrett, work and careers editor, and Andrew Hill, management editor, hear from Amy Goldstein, author of Janesville,...
10.04.2017
Business Book Challenge: episode 2
To celebrate the FT’s Business Book of the Year Award, the team talk to the six shortlisted writers. In the second episode of our third series, Isabel Berwick, assistant features editor, and Andrew Hill, management editor, hear from Walter Scheidel,...
09.27.2017
Business Book Challenge: episode 1
To celebrate the FT’s Business Book of the Year Award, the team talk to the six shortlisted writers. In the first episode of our third series, Helen Barrett, work and careers editor, and Andrew Hill, management editor, hear from David...
08.07.2017
Business Book Challenge: episode 9
To celebrate the FT’s Business Book of the Year Award, our star columnists recommend the top reads to bring solace and advice in turbulent times. In the ninth episode of our second series, contributing editor Michael Skapinker and science commentator...
07.24.2017
Business Book Challenge: episode 8
To celebrate the FT’s Business Book of the Year Award, our star columnists recommend the top reads to bring solace and advice in turbulent times. In the eighth episode of our second series, Work and Careers editor Helen Barrett and...
07.10.2017
Business Book Challenge: episode 7
To celebrate the FT's Business Book of the Year Award, our star columnists recommend the top reads to bring solace and advice in these turbulent times. In the seventh episode of our second series, FT columnist Andrew Hill and employment...
06.26.2017
Business Book Challenge: episode 6
To celebrate the FT’s Business Book of the Year Award, our star columnists recommend the top reads to bring solace and advice in turbulent times. In the sixth episode of our second series, Martin Wolf, the FT’s chief economics commentator,...
06.12.2017
Business Book Challenge: episode 5
To celebrate the FT’s Business Book of the Year Award, our star columnists recommend top reads to bring solace and advice in turbulent times. In the fifth episode of our second series, Isabel Berwick, Lucy Kellaway and Andrew Hill discuss...
05.31.2017
What are the skills needed for the 21st-century workplace?
Discussing what skills today’s employees should possess to survive a career that is likely to span more than 40 years, Lucy Kellaway hosts Chris Hirst, chief executive of Havas UK and Europe, Keely Woodley, a Grant Thornton partner who leads...
05.27.2017
Business Book Challenge: episode 4
To celebrate the FT’s Business Book of the Year Award, our star columnists recommend the top reads to bring solace and advice in turbulent times. In the fourth episode of our second series, Helen Barrett, Miranda Green and Andrew Hill...
05.15.2017
Business Book Challenge: episode 3
To celebrate the FT’s Business Book of the Year Award, our columnists recommend the top reads to bring solace and advice in turbulent times. In episode three of the series, Tim Harford, Isabel Berwick and Helen Barrett discuss 'Designing Your...
05.01.2017
Business Book Challenge: episode 2
To celebrate the FT’s Business Book of the Year Award, our star columnists recommend the top reads to bring solace and advice in turbulent times. In the second episode of our new series, Emma Jacobs and Andrew Hill discuss Brigid...
04.17.2017
Business Book Challenge: episode 1
To celebrate the FT’s Business Book of the Year Award, our star columnists recommend the top reads for bringing solace and advice in turbulent times and challenge listeners to read them in 12 weeks. In the first episode of our...
01.03.2017
Business Book Challenge: a masterclass
Do you have a good idea for a business book? Following this year’s Bracken Bower Prize to find the best proposal from a young author, publishing industry experts and the prize finalists join FT management columnist Andrew Hill for a...
12.19.2016
Business Book Challenge: episode 7
To celebrate the FT’s Business Book of the Year Award, our star columnists recommend six classic business books and challenge listeners to read them in 12 weeks. In episode seven, Helen Barrett, the FT’s Work and Careers editor, FT columnist...
12.05.2016
Business Book Challenge - episode 6
To celebrate the FT’s Business Book of the Year Award, our star columnists recommend six classic business books and challenge listeners to read them in 12 weeks. In episode six, Helen Barrett, the FT’s Work and Careers editor, and FT...
11.21.2016
Business Book Challenge: episode 5
To celebrate the FT’s Business Book of the Year Award, our star columnists recommend six classic business books and challenge listeners to read them in 12 weeks. In episode five, Helen Barrett, the FT’s Work and Careers editor, and FT...

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FT Work & Careers episodes:

Leadership and the importance of purpose

A CEO and serial entrepreneur on how careers evolve

Paul Polman and a leader-to-be in conversation on the future of work

Business book podcast: how to get your proposal published

Business Book podcast: radical ideas for the future

Business Book podcast: Extreme enterprise

Business Book podcast: capitalism, the past, present and future

The Career Changers

Asia business schools are on an evolutionary march

Podcast: what I wish I had known at 18

Meet the career changers

How to talk about money at work

Meet the Career Changers

How to switch off for summer

Social class at work

Meet the Career Changers

Best practice when LBGT staff work abroad

Fit Hacks talk about the London Marathon

Business Book podcast: the office as fiction

Business book podcast: 1,000 years of work

How MBA students get internships

JFK’s long-lost speech

Business book podcast: Re-engage with your job

Find purpose at work

Business book podcast: The tyranny of metrics

Meet the Career Changers

Business book podcast: Digital detox

Business book podcast: Work less to achieve more

Meet the Career Changers

How to publish a business book

Business Book Challenge: episode 6

Business Book Challenge: episode 5

Business Book Challenge: episode 4

Business Book Challenge: episode 3

Business Book Challenge: episode 2

Business Book Challenge: episode 1

Business Book Challenge: episode 9

Business Book Challenge: episode 8

Business Book Challenge: episode 7

Business Book Challenge: episode 6

Business Book Challenge: episode 5

What are the skills needed for the 21st-century workplace?

Business Book Challenge: episode 4

Business Book Challenge: episode 3

Business Book Challenge: episode 2

Business Book Challenge: episode 1

Business Book Challenge: a masterclass

Business Book Challenge: episode 7

Business Book Challenge - episode 6

Business Book Challenge: episode 5