Think you work hard? Bet you don’t.
The disease of overwork is partly in our minds and it has a bearing on how stressed we feel
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Podcasts de lucy
In defence of sycophantic wage slaves
Luke Johnson is wrong. Flattery is crucial to survival in the corporate world and beyond
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My top tip: ignore all other top tips
Lucy Kellaway says pieces of advice are positioning statements that tell the world about the...
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Public speaking and removing my jeans on stage
Your performance is only the half of it. The rest is down to the early dynamic with the audience,...
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Have you heard that gossip is good?
The true value of such morsels has nothing to do with the subject and is all to do with purveyor
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Big Brother can watch me work any day
So long as everyone knows they are being monitored and why, it is not such a bad idea
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Small talk makes a big difference
If you don’t chat, people don’t like you much. So if women keep quiet at work, it matters
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Lessons in success from Eton and the Tiger Mother
Now we know why so many dyslexics and people who lost a parent young make it to the top
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Colleagues and bosses are not your family
Lucy Kellaway says the idea that employees are part of one big, corporate family is delusional
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Cheer up, this is a golden age for office workers
For privileged professionals at least, working life is better than it has ever been
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Men should stop losing sleep over their loss of face
Women may be more resilient, as we don’t take minor slights as a heinous attack on our egos
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The world’s most successful business women have impeccable hairdos.
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I am 54 and a half – how old are you?
Whenever I interview anyone, I do not consider I’ve done the job properly unless I slip in how...
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It is better to be a cokehead than a blockhead
Lucy Kellaway says to eradicate those truly unsuited to office we need random checks on their...
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Ups and downs of taking the stairs
If people used the stairs, we would be deprived of the office equivalent of behind the bike shed,...
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Why it is very clever to pretend to be stupid
Disarm others, make them forget you are scarily powerful and lull them into liking you, says Lucy...
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The bike test shows what I’m like at work
Lucy Kellaway says bosses can learn much by watching a prospective employee on a bicycle
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Nine valuable lessons from rubbish jobs
A diet of drudgery in a takeaway might seem wholesome but it does open the eye to better things,...
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Distraction beats doctors for back pain relief
Germany, strong enough to carry southern Europe on its back, stays home at the slightest twinge
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Competence beats confidence every time
Lucy Kellaway says it’s all very well thinking we are good at what we do but it’s better to try...
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