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The death of the old-style phone may help us individually but it loosens the bonds between us, says Lucy Kellaway  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

If everybody knows what their manager’s little ways are, it is better all round, says Lucy Kellaway  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The only risk is that the boss gets wind of the arrangement and cuts out the middleman  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Last week I read a blog saying that sitting is the new smoking. It makes you fat and then it kills you. We must act, says Lucy Kellaway  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Lucy Kellaway says that a CEO ought to be able to explain what he does in a way a child can grasp  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Bosses have been rampant in the world of bull, says the FT's Lucy Kellaway  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

It is quite wrong to think about it as the enemy, says the FT's Lucy Kellaway  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Lucy Kellaway says lessons learnt from family life can pay off at work  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Lucy Kellaway says it is a nonsense to boil down something as qualitative as influence into a single number  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

If laughter varies with gender, it varies even more with power, says Lucy Kellaway  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Lucy Kellaway says the ubiquitous coffee chain cannot be forgiven for the way it grinds out its message  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

When it comes to the quest for the perfect match, it helps to keep your expectations real, says Lucy Kellaway  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Lucy Kellaway finds that apparently a game of ‘Angry Birds’ is good for us  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The world of work is supposed to have changed beyond recognition since I started out on a bank's graduate training programme three decades ago, but actually it hasn’t. For graduate trainees, nothing of any importance has changed at all.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Lucy Kellaway says alumni connections are not a problem at all – in fact they are a thoroughly good thing.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Study after study shows an interview is not much better than picking people at random.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Lucy Kellaway says it’s not just the objects that are telling – it’s the juxtaposition  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

With design so overbearing at Google’s London HQ, the individual can’t get a look in, says the FT's Lucy Kellaway.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Lucy Kellaway says that top executives should take an annual hubris test  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Anyone batty enough to aim for perfection in their work isn’t a force for good. Such obsession comes with a dark underside.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.