Lucy Kellaway
Management Columnist, Financial Times
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Columnist on FT, among other things.
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The business case for hiring the fat, the ugly and the squeaky-voiced. My col on.ft.com/167hVti via @FT
Don’t hate the successful just because they’re beautiful
ft.com — Whatever one might think of Margaret Thatcher, on one policy the late British prime minister turns out to have been dead right: taking those elocution lessons to lower her voice. At the time I was outraged that a woman who had just been elected to
RT @tetzelny: @lucykellaway @FT real GS elev. gossip typically "working this weekend?" "yes" "me too" (Fri) / "work this weekend?" "yes" "m…
RT @abhinavvr: @ADMiller18 @lucykellaway if three lifts open at the same time, how do you avoid indecision that leads to all three closing …
RT @ADMiller18: @lucykellaway and if awkward fellow liftee is pointlessly watching numbers tick up on display above the door, ought you to …
Great issues of the day: do you hold the lift door if someone is running for it? - podcast.ft.com/index.php?pid=…
Lucy Kellaway podcast and audio downloads
podcast.ft.com — Listen to podcasts and download audio from top financial columnists from the Financial Times. Lucy Kellaway, the FT's management columnist, pokes fun at management fads and jargon, and celebrates the ups and downs of office life.
Elevator etiquette, the ups and downs and why it's not ok to talk normally in them-- my col on.ft.com/10rLogv via @FT
Elevator gossip rarely rises above the dull
ft.com — I realise 426,127 people got there before me, but I have started following GS Elevator gossip on Twitter. Things said in the Goldman Sachs lifts do not stay in the Goldman Sachs lifts: they get tweeted for us all to enjoy. Thus in the past week or
Let your boss eat cake
neurope.eu — When Chris Holmes decided to resign from the UK's troubled Border Agency, he did so in style. He sent his boss a cake with his resignation written in icing as a decoration: To The Management, Border Force, Stanstead: Today is my 31st birthday, and having recently become a father I now reralise how precious life is and how important it is to spend my time doing something that makes me, and other people happy.
My podcast: it's better to be a bumbler than an over-achiever. t.co/41tczx3bk1
Lucy Kellaway podcast and audio downloads
podcast.ft.com — Listen to podcasts and download audio from top financial columnists from the Financial Times. Lucy Kellaway, the FT's management columnist, pokes fun at management fads and jargon, and celebrates the ups and downs of office life.
@peter_tl If that's what you want, I'm now revealing that Peter Thal Larsen was the inspiration for the original Martin Lukes..
Why the most useless workers are the happiest - my col t.co/4ePyO2YAO6 via @FT
Worker bees should be left to bumble
ft.com — When I had been at the FT for about a year, a young woman who had just joined the paper invited me out for a drink. I had barely taken a first sip of acidic white wine when she declared herself terminally bored with writing mundane corporate newsSign up to discover more journalists who cover Business and Finance, Opinion and Editorial and more.
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