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Podcast Overview

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

Podcast Episodes

Apple's new grandiose office is for grown -ups

Apple's $5bn headquarters is the world’s most expensive office and Steve Jobs' last posthumous hurrah, says Lucy Kellaway

Don't listen to prigs: profanity is glorious

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

Let's have more 'womanterruption'

Interruptions help cut short boring discussions. So instead of making men interrupt less, women should be made to do it more, argues Lucy Kellaway.

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 Lucy Kellaway

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 people might conceivably want to read, says Lucy Kellaway

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. Image credit: Chris Tosic

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 was halfway decent, but it isn't, says Lucy Kellaway

To say older workers lack energy is ageist and wrong

Modern fiftysomethings are perky, well-rested and free from domestic ties, says Lucy Kellaway. Image credit: Chris Tosic

There is nothing cute about innumeracy

Abbott’s difficulty with a simple sum is evidence of a troubling assumption, says Lucy Kellaway

Mondelez serves up 10 business clichés in one sentence

‘Breakthrough’ is so stale it makes me almost feel sorry for the author, says Lucy Kellaway. Image credit: Chris Tosic

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