May 16, 2013

Design therapy for retailers

Working Lives: Shop window designer Gary Card. Photograph: Rosie HallamWorking Lives: Shop window designer Gary Card. ©Rosie Hallam

A stylist who has worked with Lady Gaga wishes all his clients were as daring

book cover of 'Focus' From BUSINESS EDUCATION May 12, 2013

The vision thing

A positive or negative world view can shape reality, a new book, ‘Focus’, by Heidi Grant Halvorson and Tory Higgins, argues

Rupert Lendrum, club secretary at the Bucks club, Mayfair. For Biz life ©Charlie Bibby May 9, 2013

From one club to another

Rupert Lendrum’s past has made him a model steward for Buck’s Club, a gentlemen’s retreat

Brit school dance class ©Charlie Bibby May 6, 2013

School for stardom

From Amy Winehouse to Adele, the Brit School has long helped youngsters with artistic ambition

©Rosie Hallam May 2, 2013

The spray-can entrepreneur

Graffiti artist David Speed is putting his skills at the service of advertisers and event organisers

Divorce lawyer Camilla Baldwin ©Rosie Hallam Apr 25, 2013

Divorce lawyer with a line of ‘upset people’

Camilla Baldwin has found the English capital to be a good city to pursue her profession

From LIFE & ARTS Apr 19, 2013

Big shoes to fill

A history of one of Britain’s great family-run companies. The FT’s management writer reviews ‘Clarks: Made to Last’, by Mark Palmer

©Pascal Perich Apr 11, 2013

Lights, cameras . . . nappies

Coaxing kids to perform on set is a skill in demand as advertisers tap into their emotional appeal

From UK Apr 5, 2013

Ambitious migrants fuel rise in direct selling

Industry sees evidence of incomers’ business nous and work ethic

©Charlie Bibby Apr 4, 2013

The chemist in the kitchen

Rachel Edwards-Stuart cooked up a career from applying lab techniques to modern cuisine

Apr 2, 2013

Here come the groom and the groom

Same-sex couples tying the knot are offering businesses a chance to target a new niche

From UK Mar 29, 2013

City churchgoers up since crisis

Square Mile membership climbs as piety gives way elsewhere

Mar 27, 2013

After the retirement party

For many older workers, retiring is simply the start of the next stage in their working lives

Mar 21, 2013

In the underground movement

Archaeologist Tim Bradley has turned his passion into a career

Mar 18, 2013

The film-maker as a creative boss

Documentary shows a director demanding control

Mar 14, 2013

More diplomat than bodyguard

For the modern ‘close protection operator’, a job as a hired heavy requires a light touch

Mar 7, 2013

A hunter-gatherer’s wild career

Miles Irving turned a childhood fascination with plants into a food foraging business

Feb 28, 2013

Fraud and affairs of the heart

Online con artists with a romantic twist transform the work of the private eye

Feb 21, 2013

An eye for the pick of the crop

The gangmaster Fred Bassett adopts a pragmatic approach to using migrant workers

From BUSINESS EDUCATION Jan 28, 2013

Books: Listen and learn

Companies must practise what they preach and tap into staff expertise, an author argues

ABOUT EMMA

Emma Jacobs Emma Jacobs' new column Working Lives takes a look at thriving and dying jobs amid the economic downturn. She also writes features and interviews across the paper, including for Weekend and UK news, but with a particular focus on Business Life, exploring business culture and entrepreneurship.

Jacobs has been at the Financial Times since 1999, working on UK news, companies, markets and FT.com.

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