The unexpected joy of losing one's phone
Lucy Kellaway felt exposed and vulnerable when she lost her smartphone but by day three, panic was replaced by freedom.
Lucy Kellaway is an Associate Editor and management columist at the Financial Times. She has worked at the FT in London for 25 years.
Lucy Kellaway felt exposed and vulnerable when she lost her smartphone but by day three, panic was replaced by freedom.
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The plague of compulsory creativity may be dying out.
Ask anyone in your office how much money your company made last year and I bet they won't have the foggiest idea. There is a lesson here for top management.
If you can't let go of your emails while on holidays it's now a sign of bad management.
An article by BCG head Rich Lesser is very bad advice indeed and twentysomethings need to be warned about trying to follow it.
We are simply more interested in women CEOs and we will go on being more interested until there are more of them.
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The 10 minutes I debated high heels on the radio were the sanest I have had since the referendum.
I did not set out to be uncivil to my colleagues. This is just how office life has become.
Sir Philip's words are good. The syntax is great. But the repetitions tell you everything you need to know about his character.
Smart clothes pegs? Connected tampons? Lucy Kellaway is tiring of the internet of things.
What is the point of using twitter?
The only people left in London offices over 50 are the highest or lowest flyers.
It's easy to be blasé about failure when you've had some success, writes Lucy Kellaway.
There is not a single example of a business putting its values to music without mass humiliation.
Even after a nasty bike accident, Lucy Kellaway is keen to cycle to work again, as the other options are all so bad.
If you slow technology down, you go faster and if you reduce your hours at work, you may achieve more, says Lucy Kellaway.
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