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Lucy Kellaway is an Associate Editor and management columnist of the FT. For the past 15 years her weekly Monday column has poked fun at management fads and jargon and celebrated the ups and downs of office life.
In her 25 years at the FT, Lucy has been energy correspondent, Brussels correspondent, a Lex writer, and an interviewer of business people and celebrities for the Lunch with the FT series and the FT Weekend. Prizes include Columnist of the Year in the British Press Awards 2006, Industrial Society WorkWord Award (twice), Best Commentator, Business Journalist of the Year Awards 2007 and the Wincott Young Financial Journalist Award. Her first book, Sense and Nonsense in the Office, was published by FT Prentice Hall in 1999. Martin Lukes: Who Moved My BlackBerry(TM) (2005) and In Office Hours (2010) were published by Penguin.
Born in London in 1959, Lucy graduated from Oxford University with a degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics.
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Lucy Kellaway’s latest columns
- -UBS’s silly menu leaves a bad taste
It is time to worry when companies write witless things and then hand them to their customers, writes Lucy Kellaway
The best I can do for today’s youth is quit
In almost all professions, the young can’t advance because everywhere they find my complacent generation is in situ, writes Lucy Kellaway
Humble braggarts’ tales best read in bursts
A lesson of ‘World Changers’ is that entrepreneurs have an unfortunate tendency to turn to philosophy, writes Lucy Kellaway
If you have to reject me, tell me straight
No one appreciates hollow good wishes from someone who is telling them to shove off, writes Lucy Kellaway
If you want adult behaviour, treat people like babies
Imposing an arbitrary structure on adults may be less alien than it sounds; history suggests humans rather like it, writes Lucy Kellaway
And the winners of 2011’s guff awards are...
There is an economic law that says all markets are cyclical save one: the bullshit market, which knows only the bull phase
The Diary
The trip to China sits like a bauble on a Christmas tree but the one important thing I’ve learnt this year is how to say no
Will investing in Botox reap rewards in the job market?
A friend argues it will quickly pay for itself. I can’t help noticing that I am looking much older than my peers who have had work done
Christmas and work are a turkey of a combination
We may have all finally reached the only sensible conclusion about Christmas in the office: it doesn’t work, writes Lucy Kellaway
Social networks upend office etiquette
What is acceptable and what is shameless? The answer is that no one has the foggiest – we are all making it up as we go along, writes Lucy Kellaway
