Podscud - FT Listen to Lucy

Financial Times management columnist Lucy Kellaway pokes fun at management fads and jargon, and celebrates the ups and downs of office life.

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Email: the weapon wielded by the passive aggressive colleague

10 years

Goldman boss’s marathon memo starts well but runs off course

10 years

Booby-trapped breakfasts are a rotten way to choose staff

10 years

I don’t want to change the world and nor should you

10 years

The four lies a successful chief executive must always tell

10 years

An old-school reply to an advertiser’s retro threat

10 years

Boneheaded aphorisms from Davos’s windy summit

10 years

January is for cutting hours, not alcohol

10 years

Deloitte chief’s new year memo is a classic in demotivation

10 years

Office pranks are no laughing matter to younger workers

10 years

Time to get stoked by the year’s worst corporate guff

10 years

Introducing Guffipedia, an outlet for all victims of BS

10 years

Stories are best for the Bible and in novels, not the C-suite

10 years

Why I love my office building despite coffee stains and mice

10 years

Feeling useless at your job is painful but ensures you never are

10 years

There’s no place like Yahoo — and Marissa Mayer is right

10 years

The boss crush phenomenon: random, brutal and outrageous

10 years

Barclays boss needs to ditch his inexcusable focus on value

11 years

Divorce can galvanise a career as well as ruin it

11 years

My new rule of competition begins with a war on talent

11 years

Spare yourself the loneliness of long-term home workers

11 years

Hands up if you can say what your company’s values are

11 years

Listen to brain surgeons, not bankers, for the truth on errors

11 years

Hot air from United Airlines will not dispel Newark nerves

11 years

Am I a good parent? Don’t ask me — or UBS

11 years

Time to hang up on the pointless conference call

11 years

Competitive dinner parties reveal gender divide

11 years

Amazon is at the head of an outbreak of good sense

11 years

Hidden costs of hellish schemes for claiming expenses

11 years

A blast of common sense frees staff from appraisals

11 years