http://www.ft.com/comment/lucy-kellaway Latest Lucy Kellaway columns from the Financial Times en (PICS-1.1 "http://www.classify.org/safesurf/" L gen true for "http://www.ft.com/" r (SS~~000 1)) © Copyright The Financial Times Ltd 2013. "FT" and "Financial Times" are trademarks of the Financial Times. See http://www.ft.com/servicestools/help/terms#legal1 for the terms and conditions of reuse. Sun, 19 May 2013 16:07:49 GMT Tue, 21 May 2013 19:29:24 GMT client.support@ft.com (Client Support) 15 Newspapers http://www.ft.com/rss/management/lucy-kellaway http://im.ft-static.com/m/img/rss/RSS_Default_Image.png http://www.ft.com/comment/lucy-kellaway http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/67de3534-be3a-11e2-bb35-00144feab7de.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fmanagement_lucy-kellaway%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct Something strange has happened to the word: it has vanished. Call it what you want but the chances are there are better ways of wasting you time Sun, 19 May 2013 16:07:49 GMT http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/67de3534-be3a-11e2-bb35-00144feab7de.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fmanagement_lucy-kellaway%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct 67de3534-be3a-11e2-bb35-00144feab7de http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/acf542c2-b8b1-11e2-a6ae-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fmanagement_lucy-kellaway%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct The obsession about degree class is a national character flaw. My test shows those with firsts are neither better nor worse than those with seconds Sun, 12 May 2013 12:24:57 GMT http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/acf542c2-b8b1-11e2-a6ae-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fmanagement_lucy-kellaway%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct acf542c2-b8b1-11e2-a6ae-00144feabdc0 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/24698f5a-b323-11e2-95b3-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fmanagement_lucy-kellaway%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct The latest craze – taking something we all think is bad and telling us that it’s good (or vice versa) – is plain crazy. Black is black and white is white Sun, 05 May 2013 13:06:52 GMT http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/24698f5a-b323-11e2-95b3-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fmanagement_lucy-kellaway%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct 24698f5a-b323-11e2-95b3-00144feabdc0 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/409d91ae-ac1a-11e2-9e7f-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fmanagement_lucy-kellaway%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct Studies say the good looking are more successful but that is not a good way to recruit, writes Lucy Kellaway Sun, 28 Apr 2013 16:38:02 GMT http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/409d91ae-ac1a-11e2-9e7f-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fmanagement_lucy-kellaway%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct 409d91ae-ac1a-11e2-9e7f-00144feabdc0 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5cc1b492-a809-11e2-8e5d-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fmanagement_lucy-kellaway%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct The average office worker takes the lift about 50,000 times in a lifetime, but never learns to relax in them, writes Lucy Kellaway Sun, 21 Apr 2013 13:26:47 GMT http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5cc1b492-a809-11e2-8e5d-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fmanagement_lucy-kellaway%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct 5cc1b492-a809-11e2-8e5d-00144feabdc0 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/39eff7dc-a1f4-11e2-8971-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fmanagement_lucy-kellaway%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct If staff were left to their own devices, a lot of managerial effort would be saved and everyone would be happier, writes Lucy Kellaway Sun, 14 Apr 2013 15:44:58 GMT http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/39eff7dc-a1f4-11e2-8971-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fmanagement_lucy-kellaway%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct 39eff7dc-a1f4-11e2-8971-00144feabdc0 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/3c7f1e40-a03e-11e2-88b6-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fmanagement_lucy-kellaway%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct Lucy Kellaway looks at some of the worst management fads to appear in the workplace during the past 20 years Tue, 09 Apr 2013 14:58:23 GMT http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/3c7f1e40-a03e-11e2-88b6-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fmanagement_lucy-kellaway%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct 3c7f1e40-a03e-11e2-88b6-00144feabdc0 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3e1c66ae-9620-11e2-9ab2-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fmanagement_lucy-kellaway%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct The festival of tomfoolery has a hard act to follow in view of the entertainment provided by business, writes Lucy Kellaway Sun, 31 Mar 2013 14:43:16 GMT http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3e1c66ae-9620-11e2-9ab2-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fmanagement_lucy-kellaway%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct 3e1c66ae-9620-11e2-9ab2-00144feabdc0 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/11bade50-922a-11e2-a6f4-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fmanagement_lucy-kellaway%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct A survey showing that teenagers in Britain want to pursue the ‘wrong’ careers was both pointless and damaging, writes Lucy Kellaway Sun, 24 Mar 2013 15:42:12 GMT http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/11bade50-922a-11e2-a6f4-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fmanagement_lucy-kellaway%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct 11bade50-922a-11e2-a6f4-00144feabdc0 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/5167e4da-9158-11e2-b4c9-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fmanagement_lucy-kellaway%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct Lucy Kellaway wishes this collection on contemporary womanhood had found more to celebrate. A review of ‘Fifty Shades of Feminism’ Fri, 22 Mar 2013 18:04:25 GMT http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/5167e4da-9158-11e2-b4c9-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fmanagement_lucy-kellaway%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct 5167e4da-9158-11e2-b4c9-00144feabdc0 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b7755b3e-8b47-11e2-8fcf-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fmanagement_lucy-kellaway%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct The fact Mark Zuckerberg likes to keep his conference room at a chilly 15C is something I can really get steamed up about, writes Lucy Kellaway Sun, 17 Mar 2013 14:39:45 GMT http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b7755b3e-8b47-11e2-8fcf-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fmanagement_lucy-kellaway%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct b7755b3e-8b47-11e2-8fcf-00144feabdc0 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ab0f2646-8687-11e2-ad73-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fmanagement_lucy-kellaway%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct My dysfunctional relationship with money and self-worth tells me that admitting you are overpaid can be quite complicated, writes Lucy Kellaway Sun, 10 Mar 2013 13:40:36 GMT http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ab0f2646-8687-11e2-ad73-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fmanagement_lucy-kellaway%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct ab0f2646-8687-11e2-ad73-00144feabdc0 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/73fef8e0-8284-11e2-8404-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fmanagement_lucy-kellaway%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct This is the right time for me to break my own silence and tell my story about being sexually harassed at work, writes Lucy Kellaway Sun, 03 Mar 2013 15:52:07 GMT http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/73fef8e0-8284-11e2-8404-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fmanagement_lucy-kellaway%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct 73fef8e0-8284-11e2-8404-00144feabdc0 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/0df8f9de-813e-11e2-9908-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fmanagement_lucy-kellaway%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct As an actor, I manufacture emotions. They’re a sense of play. But real life is the same. We’re just not aware of it. Fri, 01 Mar 2013 14:00:22 GMT http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/0df8f9de-813e-11e2-9908-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fmanagement_lucy-kellaway%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct 0df8f9de-813e-11e2-9908-00144feabdc0 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/dd0661aa-8033-11e2-aed5-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fmanagement_lucy-kellaway%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct Lucy Kellaway reviews ‘Office Politics: How to Thrive in a World of Lying, Backstabbing and Dirty Tricks’ by Oliver James Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:43:41 GMT http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/dd0661aa-8033-11e2-aed5-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fmanagement_lucy-kellaway%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct dd0661aa-8033-11e2-aed5-00144feabdc0 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/37a5b704-7b5d-11e2-8eed-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fmanagement_lucy-kellaway%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct We need the equivalent of putting people in the stocks to persuade them to get off Facebook and Reddit and get on with their work, writes Lucy Kellaway Sun, 24 Feb 2013 11:55:15 GMT http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/37a5b704-7b5d-11e2-8eed-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fmanagement_lucy-kellaway%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct 37a5b704-7b5d-11e2-8eed-00144feabdc0 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/f69e6f5e-79cb-11e2-b377-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fmanagement_lucy-kellaway%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct Two decades after her last – disastrous – ski holiday, Lucy Kellaway returns to the Alps to visit a remote hamlet reinvented as a luxurious retreat Fri, 22 Feb 2013 19:19:33 GMT http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/f69e6f5e-79cb-11e2-b377-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fmanagement_lucy-kellaway%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct f69e6f5e-79cb-11e2-b377-00144feabdc0 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9ca9f188-75cc-11e2-b702-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fmanagement_lucy-kellaway%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct Johnson & Johnson’s ‘Our Credo’ got me excited. Alas, since it was written in 1943 there has been some slippage, writes Lucy Kellaway Sun, 17 Feb 2013 17:06:46 GMT http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9ca9f188-75cc-11e2-b702-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fmanagement_lucy-kellaway%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct 9ca9f188-75cc-11e2-b702-00144feabdc0 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f5fa03f8-6af1-11e2-9871-00144feab49a.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fmanagement_lucy-kellaway%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct Lucy Kellaway reviews ‘Work Like a Spy: Business Tips from a Former CIA Officer’ by J.C. Carleson, and finds that managers can learn from spies Wed, 13 Feb 2013 16:46:04 GMT http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f5fa03f8-6af1-11e2-9871-00144feab49a.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fmanagement_lucy-kellaway%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct f5fa03f8-6af1-11e2-9871-00144feab49a http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3ad74288-6fa7-11e2-956b-00144feab49a.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fmanagement_lucy-kellaway%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct The death of the landline may be better for us individually both at work and at home, but it is worse for the bonds between us, writes Lucy Kellaway Sun, 10 Feb 2013 14:21:06 GMT http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3ad74288-6fa7-11e2-956b-00144feab49a.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fmanagement_lucy-kellaway%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct 3ad74288-6fa7-11e2-956b-00144feab49a