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    • Tuesday, 25 July, 2017
      Lucy Kellaway podcast5 min listen
      FT readers, I will miss you most of all

      After 32 years, you are still an enigma, says Lucy Kellaway

    • Tuesday, 18 July, 2017
      Lucy Kellaway podcast6 min listen
      How I lost my 25-year battle against corporate claptrap

      The exponential rise of guff in business shows no sign of abating, says Lucy Kellaway

    • Thursday, 6 July, 2017
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      Apple's new grandiose office is for grown -ups

      Apple's $5bn headquarters is the world’s most expensive office and Steve Jobs' last …

    • Wednesday, 28 June, 2017
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      Don't listen to prigs: profanity is glorious

      Shock over swear words exposes some misplaced prudery, says Lucy Kellaway

    • Monday, 19 June, 2017
      Lucy Kellaway podcast5 min listen
      Let's have more 'womanterruption'

      Interruptions help cut short boring discussions.

    • Thursday, 15 June, 2017
      Lucy Kellaway podcast5 min listen
      Why the most successful people just say no

      The main difference between yes and no is that one is easy and the other hard, says…

    • Wednesday, 7 June, 2017
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      Paul Romer’s ‘and’ quota is a false economy

      It was wrong to punish someone who tried to get his colleagues to write text that pe…

    • Thursday, 1 June, 2017
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      You heard it here first: hold fast to your antiques

      The tables are turning on Ikea and the fashion for Skandi tat, says Lucy Kellaway.

    • Sunday, 21 May, 2017
      Lucy Kellaway podcast4 min listen
      Amy the robot wants my job, but she's no match for me

      Voice bot Experimental Amy might represent serious competition if what she produced …

    • Wednesday, 17 May, 2017
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      To say older workers lack energy is ageist and wrong

      Modern fiftysomethings are perky, well-rested and free from domestic ties, says Lucy…

    • Wednesday, 10 May, 2017
      Lucy Kellaway podcast5 min listen
      There is nothing cute about innumeracy

      Abbott’s difficulty with a simple sum is evidence of a troubling assumption, says Lu…

    • Wednesday, 3 May, 2017
      Lucy Kellaway podcast5 min listen
      Mondelez serves up 10 business clichés in one sentence

      ‘Breakthrough’ is so stale it makes me almost feel sorry for the author, says Lucy K…

    • Monday, 24 April, 2017
      Lucy Kellaway podcast5 min listen
      My speech was a car crash because I am too confident

      Good intentions led to a tour de force of clangers, says Lucy Kellaway.

    • Thursday, 20 April, 2017
      Lucy Kellaway podcast5 min listen
      Cheap ways to prevent executive burnout

      Expensive ‘holistic’ leadership programmes do not solve anything, says Lucy Kellaway.

    • Tuesday, 11 April, 2017
      Lucy Kellaway podcast5 min listen
      A masterclass in calling bullshit

      Puffed-up nonsense has been deemed worthy of academic study, says Lucy Kellaway.

    • Wednesday, 5 April, 2017
      Lucy Kellaway podcast5 min listen
      The dedicated office chatters are being forced out

      Everyone will tell you they are too busy to talk — but it is not true, says Lucy Kel…

    • Thursday, 30 March, 2017
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      Codes of conduct breach the principles of common sense

      Like most humans, I am not naturally drawn to small print, says Lucy Kellaway

    • Thursday, 23 March, 2017
      Lucy Kellaway podcast5 min listen
      Robert Kelly’s children remind us how pompous we are at work

      Viral video of domestic mishap shows the artificiality of the professional self, say…

    • Thursday, 16 March, 2017
      Lucy Kellaway podcast5 min listen
      How I help my children navigate their incredible life journeys

      Unlike Angela Ahrendts, I am not ‘on 24/7’, say Lucy Kellaway.

    • Tuesday, 7 March, 2017
      Lucy Kellaway podcast5 min listen
      Why do we let Warren Buffett get away with sexism?

      The Sage of Omaha tells old and unfunny jokes without recrimination, says Lucy Kella…

    • Wednesday, 1 March, 2017
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      Death can bring your career back to life

      A disrupter of habit, it stops the living in their tracks, says Lucy Kellaway

    • Wednesday, 22 February, 2017
      Lucy Kellaway podcast5 min listen
      Should you ever trade on past glories?

      Telling others what you did before can be a sign of mediocrity, says Lucy Kellaway.

    • Tuesday, 14 February, 2017
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      Sexy and super bland: the rise of the office uniform

      What people wear to work at investment banks, management consultancies and top law f…

    • Wednesday, 8 February, 2017
      Lucy Kellaway podcast5 min listen
      How to ask for what you want — and get it every time

      Start with please and thank you, then spoon on the flattery, says Lucy Kellaway.

    • Thursday, 2 February, 2017
      Lucy Kellaway podcast5 min listen
      I am a difficult person at work and proud of it

      In the workplace and in life, being troublesome can be useful, says Lucy Kellaway.

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