Ft Listen To Lucy

Laboured quirkiness is common and Stephen Fry may be to blame with his ‘Prince of Swimwear’  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Whenever I interview anyone, I do not consider I’ve done the job properly unless I slip in how old they are  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Lucy Kellaway says to eradicate those truly unsuited to office we need random checks on their level of knowledge  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

If people used the stairs, we would be deprived of the office equivalent of behind the bike shed, says Lucy Kellaway  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Disarm others, make them forget you are scarily powerful and lull them into liking you, says Lucy Kellaway  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Lucy Kellaway says bosses can learn much by watching a prospective employee on a bicycle  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A diet of drudgery in a takeaway might seem wholesome but it does open the eye to better things, says Lucy Kellaway  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Germany, strong enough to carry southern Europe on its back, stays home at the slightest twinge  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Lucy Kellaway says it’s all very well thinking we are good at what we do but it’s better to try to be good at it  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

To bring about change, it is criticism delivered in person by random strangers that counts, says Lucy Kellaway  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Lucy Kellaway says welcoming gestures require global regulation to spare us crushing embarrassment  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On praise, the experts have got it wrong: it should almost never be given in public. It is a dangerous, corrosive substance that has a powerful and positive effect on the person it is aimed at but is better administered behind closed doors, says Lucy Kellaway.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

There is little to suggest that viral revenge leaves any lasting marks on target companies, says Lucy Kellaway  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Lucy Kellaway says gauging yourself against others is a nasty drip-drip of poison into the bloodstream  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

It is a mystery why the banks inflict a working day on employees that exhausts them, says Lucy Kellaway  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

LinkedIn could learn something from the Girl Guides to prevent the skill inflation and sucking up that are rampant on the social network, says Lucy Kellaway  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The vitamins-socks-wife combo was not quite Watergate but hints at something slightly creepy  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Talking like a regular human being does not guarantee success  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

To work for free means you value yourself at nothing, and that should make you feel bad indeed, says Lucy Kellaway  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

What is the most off-putting thing you can write in the subject line of an email? Lucy Kellaway has compiled a list, in ascending order of obnoxiousness.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.