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Financial Times
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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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Country Of Origin |
United Kingdom
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London, England
Frequency |
Weekly
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441 Available Episodes (441 Total)Average duration: 00:05:09
Jul 25 | 00:04:46
FT readers, I will miss you most of all
Jul 18 | 00:05:55
How I lost my 25-year battle against corporate claptrap
Jul 06 | 00:05:01
Apple's new grandiose office is for grown -ups
Jun 28 | 00:04:54
Don't listen to prigs: profanity is glorious
Jun 19 | 00:04:31
Let's have more 'womanterruption'
Jun 15 | 00:04:58
Why the most successful people just say no
Jun 07 | 00:04:51
Paul Romer’s ‘and’ quota is a false economy
Jun 01 | 00:04:41
You heard it here first: hold fast to your antiques
May 21 | 00:04:22
Amy the robot wants my job, but she's no match for me
May 17 | 00:04:31
To say older workers lack energy is ageist and wrong
May 10 | 00:04:54
There is nothing cute about innumeracy
May 03 | 00:05:01
Mondelez serves up 10 business clichés in one sentence
Apr 24 | 00:04:44
My speech was a car crash because I am too confident
Apr 20 | 00:05:05
Cheap ways to prevent executive burnout
Apr 11 | 00:05:00
A masterclass in calling bullshit
Apr 05 | 00:04:43
The dedicated office chatters are being forced out
Mar 30 | 00:04:47
Codes of conduct breach the principles of common sense
Mar 23 | 00:04:53
Robert Kelly’s children remind us how pompous we are at work
Mar 16 | 00:05:02
How I help my children navigate their incredible life journeys
Mar 07 | 00:04:49
Why do we let Warren Buffett get away with sexism?
Mar 01 | 00:04:46
Death can bring your career back to life
Feb 22 | 00:04:45
Should you ever trade on past glories?
Feb 14 | 00:05:09
Sexy and super bland: the rise of the office uniform
Feb 08 | 00:04:44
How to ask for what you want — and get it every time
Feb 02 | 00:04:48
I am a difficult person at work and proud of it
Jan 25 | 00:04:48
Why is work making us miserable?
Jan 18 | 00:05:05
Writing clearly turns out to be not so easy after all
Jan 10 | 00:06:00
Lucy Kellaway’s jargon awards: corporate guff scales new heights
Nov 22 | 00:04:33
I’m leaving to become a teacher and I want you to join me
Nov 15 | 00:04:55
Skip the empathy, Mr Schultz, and focus on the coffee
Nov 08 | 00:04:47
My tips for overcoming a fear of public speaking
Nov 01 | 00:05:00
Silicon Valley's corporate culture is ageist
Oct 25 | 00:04:34
Obama is right: being early has everything going for it
Oct 19 | 00:04:22
Feedback on your dinner party chat will do you good
Oct 12 | 00:04:40
Unisex loos are no refuge for a gossip
Oct 06 | 00:04:49
Lessons in clarity from the world’s grumpiest boss
Sep 27 | 00:04:34
The bliss of being 396 miles from my lost smartphone
Sep 20 | 00:05:08
Wells Fargo’s wagonload of insincere regrets
Sep 13 | 00:05:16
The plague of compulsory creativity may be dying out
Sep 06 | 00:04:26
Why it is fine to be ignorant of your company’s profit
Aug 30 | 00:04:25
Poolside working is no longer a sign of importance
Aug 09 | 00:05:13
Millennials ought to ignore career advice from BCG boss
Aug 02 | 00:04:56
Female CEOs are fascinating, as Marissa Mayer knows
Jul 26 | 00:05:04
Holidaying CEOs flaunt latest way to brag
Jul 18 | 00:05:10
My ambition to look more like Theresa May in meetings
Jul 12 | 00:05:46
Say ‘I quit’ with the perfect resignation
Jul 05 | 00:05:15
Carry on Post-Brexit, whether calm or not
Jun 28 | 00:05:12
Why we are ruder at work than we are in the street
Jun 21 | 00:05:34
The extraordinary rhetoric of Sir Philip Green
Jun 14 | 00:05:17
We need smart products because we are stupid
Jun 07 | 00:05:46
The sham democracy of chief executives on Twitter
Jun 01 | 00:05:17
In search of the missing office minority — the over-fifties
May 24 | 00:05:34
What the ‘CV of failures’ really reveals about career setbacks
May 17 | 00:05:46
The Siemens Healthineers song is a writhing, Spandex-clad horror
Apr 26 | 00:05:23
I want to get back on my bike despite the danger
Apr 19 | 00:05:18
My broken-arm method for getting more work done
Apr 12 | 00:05:39
Don’t blame millennials if you can’t hang on to them
Apr 06 | 00:05:42
Ten rules for composing your LinkedIn summary
Mar 30 | 00:05:13
Why we prefer nasty bosses to be horrible all the time
Mar 22 | 00:05:47
High heels and boxing gloves: a portrait of female professionals
Mar 15 | 00:06:03
Email: the weapon wielded by the passive aggressive colleague
Mar 08 | 00:05:44
Goldman boss’s marathon memo starts well but runs off course
Mar 01 | 00:05:20
Booby-trapped breakfasts are a rotten way to choose staff
Feb 23 | 00:05:47
I don’t want to change the world and nor should you
Feb 17 | 00:05:07
The four lies a successful chief executive must always tell
Feb 08 | 00:05:41
An old-school reply to an advertiser’s retro threat
Feb 02 | 00:05:49
Boneheaded aphorisms from Davos’s windy summit
Jan 26 | 00:05:08
January is for cutting hours, not alcohol
Jan 19 | 00:05:47
Deloitte chief’s new year memo is a classic in demotivation
Jan 12 | 00:05:18
Office pranks are no laughing matter to younger workers
Jan 04 | 00:06:39
Time to get stoked by the year’s worst corporate guff
Dec 15 | 00:06:12
Introducing Guffipedia, an outlet for all victims of BS
Dec 08 | 00:05:43
Stories are best for the Bible and in novels, not the C-suite
Dec 01 | 00:05:33
Why I love my office building despite coffee stains and mice
Nov 24 | 00:05:22
Feeling useless at your job is painful but ensures you never are
Nov 17 | 00:05:43
There’s no place like Yahoo — and Marissa Mayer is right
Nov 10 | 00:05:31
The boss crush phenomenon: random, brutal and outrageous
Nov 03 | 00:06:11
Barclays boss needs to ditch his inexcusable focus on value
Oct 27 | 00:05:31
Divorce can galvanise a career as well as ruin it
Oct 19 | 00:06:10
My new rule of competition begins with a war on talent
Oct 13 | 00:05:25
Spare yourself the loneliness of long-term home workers
Oct 06 | 00:06:03
Hands up if you can say what your company’s values are
Sep 29 | 00:05:58
Listen to brain surgeons, not bankers, for the truth on errors
Sep 22 | 00:06:02
Hot air from United Airlines will not dispel Newark nerves
Sep 15 | 00:05:50
Am I a good parent? Don’t ask me — or UBS
Sep 08 | 00:05:33
Time to hang up on the pointless conference call
Sep 01 | 00:05:25
Competitive dinner parties reveal gender divide
Aug 25 | 00:05:48
Amazon is at the head of an outbreak of good sense
Aug 18 | 00:05:22
Hidden costs of hellish schemes for claiming expenses
Jul 29 | 00:05:30
A blast of common sense frees staff from appraisals
Jul 22 | 00:05:26
The ugly are vanishing but with them goes talent
Jul 14 | 00:05:47
‘Wrong skillset’ excuse masks a coup at the top of Barclays
Jul 07 | 00:06:08
Microsoft mission statement: so many words, most of them empty
Jun 30 | 00:05:41
The dismal narcissism of step-counters
Jun 23 | 00:06:05
The myth that ego can be left at the door
Jun 16 | 00:05:55
Why not giving a damn won’t stand in your way of success
Jun 09 | 00:05:21
Why we should admit we love ‘hateful’ estate agents
May 28 | 00:05:22
I would rather shine shoes than be a banker
May 19 | 00:05:57
A harsh lesson from Tim Armstrong, AOL’s very unappealing boss
May 12 | 00:05:30
Apps that stalk should at least be clever
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