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May 20, 2012
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May 17, 2012
Get on your bike and network
Cool business people discover the hottest place to bond
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LIFE & ARTS
May 12, 2012
Nicola Horlick now
We think we know Nicola Horlick – the fund manager who ‘had it all’. But the loss of her eldest daughter changed everything. Fourteen years later, what drives her on?
May 6, 2012
My logo obsession is more than a game
Our stock of brands is so ingrained that they have become part of who we are
- The public image Greggs’ ‘Taste Rescue’
- Facebook to buy Instagram for $1bn
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BUSINESS BOOKS
May 2, 2012
A sober look at workplace scandal
Julie Berebitsky’s ‘Sex and the Office’ takes a prim and proper peek at professional hanky-panky
Apr 29, 2012
Flattery will get you what you want
Facts have little traction in the art of persuasion
- Lucy Kellaway Affiliations matter more than achievement
- Lunch with the FT Werner Erhard
Apr 22, 2012
Affiliations matter more than achievement
The ambitious should go for prestige every time
Apr 15, 2012
Break bad habits and you’ll deliver profits
No amount of huddles will crack Royal Mail’s rubber band problem
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LIFE & ARTS
Apr 14, 2012
Debbie Purdy
The woman who has spent years campaigning for assisted suicide to be made legal in Britain talks about love, death and the dignity of choice
Apr 1, 2012
The female of the species is more scary than the male
Successful women are more frightening than men
Mar 25, 2012
Online life can teach us about the office
Virtual working might one day happen properly
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BUSINESS BOOKS
Mar 21, 2012
A compelling take on breaking bad habits
In ‘The Power of Habit’, Charles Duhigg explains the mysteries of habitual behaviour
Mar 11, 2012
Women’s inequality isn’t what it used to be
There is no further need for bellyaching. Better causes can be found to fight
Mar 4, 2012
Office tittle-tattle makes having a job a pleasure
Gossip is the thing that unites us even in hard times
Feb 26, 2012
Meetings of minds are effectively a tool for dulling them
I’d always thought working alone was the best way to get things done - and now I have the proof
Feb 19, 2012
The fine art of penning your own ‘brief bio’
Eight rules for this trickiest of literary genres
Feb 12, 2012
Stephen Hester deserves a bonus for good language
Purposeful is far preferable to passionate
About Lucy
Lucy Kellaway is an Associate Editor and management columnist of the FT. For the past 15 years her weekly Monday column has poked fun at management fads and jargon and celebrated the ups and downs of office life.
In her 25 years at the FT, Lucy has been energy correspondent, Brussels correspondent, a Lex writer, and an interviewer of business people and celebrities for the Lunch with the FT series and the FT Weekend. Prizes include Columnist of the Year in the British Press Awards 2006, Industrial Society WorkWord Award (twice), Best Commentator, Business Journalist of the Year Awards 2007 and the Wincott Young Financial Journalist Award. Her first book, Sense and Nonsense in the Office, was published by FT Prentice Hall in 1999. Martin Lukes: Who Moved My BlackBerry(TM) (2005) and In Office Hours (2010) were published by Penguin.
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