Ft Listen To Lucy

The thing that is killing the finest sort of gossip is the internet: email, Facebook and Twitter.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Everything I see at work (apart from surveys) tells me that there are more women doing better and having a better time.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Lucy Kellaway on why working alone is the best way to get things done  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Lucy Kellaway on her eight rules for this trickiest of literary genres  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

It is time to worry when companies write witless things and then hand them to their customers, says Lucy Kellaway  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

No one appreciates hollow good wishes from someone who is telling them to shove off, says Lucy Kellaway  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Lloyds bank has found a new way of saving money. It has banned all staff from travelling on the third week of every month. If this is a good idea, a similar system should be deployed for all the other ways in which We Are Not Wise with our time, says Lucy Kellaway.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The judging is now complete and Lucy Kellaway is ready to announce the winners of her annual business jargon awards.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

What is acceptable and what is shameless? The answer is that no one has the foggiest – we are all making it up as we go along, says Lucy Kellaway  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

It is surprisingly hard to be good at having money – harder than acquiring it in the first place. The perfect amount of money is when you hardly have to think about it at all, says Lucy Kellaway  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

‘Protected conversations’ between employees and bosses are a good idea but they won’t make any difference in practice, says Lucy Kellaway  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Thinking strategically about your life isn’t necessarily such a great idea, says Lucy Kellaway  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

So long as top people in the City are continuing to behave in an uncivilised fashion, the world as we know it isn’t coming to an end, says Lucy Kellaway  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

No one seems interested in teaching us how to get better at mimicry, despite it being the key to success, says Lucy Kellaway  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

When the guff germ arrives big time in China, my prediction is that they will be better at dealing with it than westerners, says Lucy Kellaway.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Most email messages are exceedingly stupid, and none more so than the ones that arrive from LinkedIn, says Lucy Kellaway  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

All companies need someone on board who stirs things up and couldn’t care less what people think, just don’t confuse it with ego, says Lucy Kellaway.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

All sorts of things are just plain wrong when translated from maths to business talk, says Lucy Kellaway.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Power may corrupt, but absolute power corrupts much less than partial power – as too many lower down the pecking order show, says Lucy Kellaway  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sufferers from WET aren’t skiving or lying; they just have an inadequate notion of what it means to be reliable, says Lucy Kellaway.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.