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

After 32 years, you are still an enigma, says Lucy Kellaway Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The exponential rise of guff in business shows no sign of abating, says Lucy Kellaway Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inform...

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

Shock over swear words exposes some misplaced prudery, says Lucy Kellaway Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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

The main difference between yes and no is that one is easy and the other hard, says Lucy Kellaway Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for...

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...

The tables are turning on Ikea and the fashion for Skandi tat, says Lucy Kellaway. Image credit: Chris Tosic Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/...

Voice bot Experimental Amy might represent serious competition if what she produced was halfway decent, but it isn't, says Lucy Kellaway Hos...

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

Abbott’s difficulty with a simple sum is evidence of a troubling assumption, says Lucy Kellaway Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for m...

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

Good intentions led to a tour de force of clangers, says Lucy Kellaway. Image credit: Chris Tosic Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for...

Expensive ‘holistic’ leadership programmes do not solve anything, says Lucy Kellaway. Image credit: Chris Tosic Hosted on Acast. See acast.c...

Puffed-up nonsense has been deemed worthy of academic study, says Lucy Kellaway. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information...

Everyone will tell you they are too busy to talk — but it is not true, says Lucy Kellaway. Image credit: Chris Tosic Hosted on Acast. See ac...

Like most humans, I am not naturally drawn to small print, says Lucy Kellaway Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Viral video of domestic mishap shows the artificiality of the professional self, says Lucy Kellaway Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy f...

Unlike Angela Ahrendts, I am not ‘on 24/7’, say Lucy Kellaway. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Sage of Omaha tells old and unfunny jokes without recrimination, says Lucy Kellaway. Picture credit: Chris Tosic Hosted on Acast. See ac...

A disrupter of habit, it stops the living in their tracks, says Lucy Kellaway Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Telling others what you did before can be a sign of mediocrity, says Lucy Kellaway. Illustration by Chris Tosic Hosted on Acast. See acast.c...

What people wear to work at investment banks, management consultancies and top law firms is ridiculous. Individualism is to be avoided at al...

Start with please and thank you, then spoon on the flattery, says Lucy Kellaway. Image by Chris Tosic Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...

In the workplace and in life, being troublesome can be useful, says Lucy Kellaway. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informati...

Office life is better than ever before, but dissatisfaction is rising, says Lucy Kellaway Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more in...

When handing out my annual guff awards last week I said clear language in business was perfectly possible if you tried hard enough. I now fi...

Contenders for 2016’s gong ranged from euphemistic to ‘plain moronic’, says Lucy Kellaway Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more in...

After 31 years at the Financial Times, Lucy Kellaway is leaving to set up Now Teach Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informat...

Starbucks boss has no business sending a missive to staff to tell them how to be. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informatio...

Remind yourself how awful most business leaders are: the bar is low, says Lucy Kellaway Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more info...

Faddish organisational trends that shut out older workers are in danger of spreading, says Lucy Kellaway Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priv...

Time spent waiting is an opportunity to catch up with emails, reading and phone calls, says Lucy Kellaway Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pri...

Just as with other skills, we benefit from clear and direct views that help us improve, says Lucy Kellaway Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pr...

The rise of the gender-neutral toilet in the workplace is not an entirely good thing, says Lucy Kellaway Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priv...

The Tiger Oil chief’s missives were rude, but his style was perfect, says Lucy Kellaway Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more info...

The aftermath of leaving my iPhone in a Washington DC taxi was frightening, shaming, then liberating, says Lucy Kellaway Hosted on Acast. Se...

After being taken for a ride, customers should bridle at the guff in the bank's apology advert, says Lucy Kellaway Hosted on Acast. See acas...

Forget calling staff "imagineers" or "sandwich artists"; companies need more modest skills to evolve, says Lucy Kellaway Hosted on Acast. Se...

Staff are more likely to be excited by a new vending machine and for good reason, says Lucy Kellaway Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...

Not being able to switch off is becoming seen for what it is — a sign of poor time management, says Lucy Kellaway Hosted on Acast. See acast...

Rich Lesser risks widening the gap between expectations and reality for twentysomethings, says Lucy Kellaway Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/...

Despite the Yahoo chief’s ire, we will go on being interested until there are more women at the top. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...

Now it is unacceptable to boast about spending, company bosses are turning to the summer reading list Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...

To appear exasperated but poised is as good as it gets, says Lucy Kellaway Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Your departure offers a rare chance to voice what you like while everyone is listening, says Lucy Kellaway Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pr...

The 10 minutes I debated high heels on the radio were the sanest I have had since the referendum, says Lucy Kellaway Hosted on Acast. See ac...

I did not set out to be uncivil to my colleagues. This is just how office life has become, says Lucy Kellaway Hosted on Acast. See acast.com...

A hat trick of honesty, ignorance and blame: it is plain, simple — and insidious, says Lucy Kellaway Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...

Clever technology is bad for our brains, says Lucy Kellaway Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.