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Lucy Kellaway is the FT’s management columnist. For the last ten years her weekly Monday column has poked fun at management fads and jargon and celebrated the ups and downs of office life.
In her 20 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. Prizes include Columnist of the Year in the British Press Awards 2006, Industrial Society WorkWord Award (twice) and the Wincott Young Financial Journalist Award. Her book, Sense and Nonsense in the Office, was published by FT Prentice Hall in 1999. Martin Lukes: Who Moved My BlackBerry(TM) was published in 2005 by Penguin.
Born in London in 1959, Lucy graduated from Oxford University with a degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics. She is married to David Goodhart, founder and editor of Prospect, the current affairs magazine. They have four children.
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Strange kind of capitalism
For a capitalist economy to work, we all need to believe that more money is better than less money, and that a pay rise is a good thing,writes Lucy Kellaway
My guide to snoopology
Lord King’s photographs were trying to tell me he was important; instead they said that he was a namedropper and general pain in the backside, writes Lucy Kellaway
Board battles won on playing fields of youth
Almost half of the chiefs of Britain’s biggest companies have gained awards in the field of sport – twice as many as have any academic trophies, writes Lucy Kellaway
Shock of BPC: before personal computers
I have just started a 24 hour low-tech vigil – sans PC and e-mail – to remind myself what life was like when windows were things that let the light in, writes Lucy Kellaway
Unrequited love makes a misery of office life
I have on my team a talented woman whom I've rewarded with promotion and a bonus. She deserved it, but there is another fact: I find her very attractive. Lucy Kellaway responds
When complaining to wrong person is right
One might think that the American purposeful complaint is better than pointless bellyaching, but in fact both can prove to be highly enjoyable, writes Lucy Kellaway
A bouquet of office barbs
I have been out collecting a botanical array of dangerous workplace blooms, words that can spoil our day, our week – or our career, writes Lucy Kellaway
Joys of haircare and soldiery
Both hairdressing and the army are unfashionably hierarchical professions, but their practitioners are amongst the happiest with their jobs, writes Lucy Kellaway
Letter-writing chiefs: you’re fired
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, writes Lucy Kellaway
Marriage demands due diligence
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, writes Lucy Kellaway
