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Jun 9, 2013
Jun 2, 2013
Clearing your email is no act of virtue
I have no folders, no system. That is because I don’t need one
- Personal Technology Email aims to achieve more with less clutter
- Top of the list sort out your working life
May 26, 2013
Graduates need a dose of reality
Students need not change the world – getting a job will be an achievement
May 19, 2013
A meeting by any other name
Calling it a summit, forum or ideas exchange doesn’t make a gathering any more important
- Leading View After the retreat, there’s no turning back
- Lucy Kellaway Meetings of minds are effectively a tool for dulling them
May 12, 2013
Grades don’t make the grade at the office
My test shows that those with firsts are neither better nor worse than those with seconds
May 5, 2013
Bad is the new good – except it isn’t
The craze for taking something we all think is bad and telling us that it’s good is crazy
- Employers Golden rules are to listen and measure
- The careerist Managing the clever but lazy
Apr 28, 2013
The case for hiring the fat and the ugly
Studies say the good-looking are more successful but that is not a good way to recruit
- Obituary Margaret Thatcher
- Non-executive director a task for which no one is qualified
Apr 21, 2013
Elevator gossip rarely rises above the dull
The average office worker never relaxes in the lift
- Gillian Tett Wake up to the #Twitter effect on markets
- Where others failed Top 10 fads
Apr 14, 2013
Worker bees should be left to bumble
All this stuff about employee engagement is nonsense
- Employers Golden rules are to listen and measure
- Communication Benefits of a job go beyond pay packets
From
SPECIAL REPORTS
Apr 9, 2013
Where others failed: Top 10 fads
Lucy Kellaway looks at some of the worst management fads to appear in the workplace during the past 20 years
Mar 31, 2013
The corporate world is rich in April Fools
The festival of tomfoolery has a hard act to follow in view of the show provided by business
Mar 24, 2013
I’m still puzzling over my dream job
A survey showing that teenagers in Britain want to pursue the ‘wrong’ careers was pointless
From
LIFE & ARTS
Mar 22, 2013
What women want
Lucy Kellaway reviews ‘Fifty Shades of Feminism’, a collection of essays on contemporary womanhood which finds little to celebrate
Mar 17, 2013
Facebook’s offices are too cool for women
In insisting on a chilly conference room, Mark Zuckerberg is exhibiting dotcom dogmatism
Mar 3, 2013
Office propositions are no clear-cut issue
Now is the time to break my silence and tell my story of being sexually harassed at work
From
LIFE & ARTS
Mar 1, 2013
Lucy Kellaway meets Richard Gere
The actor is more than happy to talk about his new film ‘Arbitrage’ and, of course, Buddhism. But what about Cindy, ageing and ... gerbils?
From
BUSINESS BOOKS
Feb 27, 2013
Steps up the ladder of corporate life
‘Office Politics’ by Oliver James
Feb 24, 2013
I can’t stop my cyber loafing
We need the equivalent of the stocks to persuade people to get off the net and get on with their work
ABOUT LUCY
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.
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