FT Work & Careers

In the final episode of three recorded at this year’s Global Peter Drucker Forum, the FT’s management editor Andrew Hill speaks to Jean-Dominique Senard, chief executive of Michelin, the French tyre manufacturer, and Namita Narkar, a marketing manager in the medical devices division of Abbott, the American multinational. The two discuss leadership and the importance of conviction and purpose in the grandiose surroundings of the Hofburg imperial palace in Vienna - which helps explain the echo you may hear. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In the second of three podcast episodes recorded at this year’s Global Peter Drucker Forum on management, the FT’s management editor Andrew Hill speaks to Isabelle Kocher, chief executive of Engie, and Hermann Arnold, co-founder of Haufe-umantis to exchange ideas on work and careers See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In the first of three podcasts recorded at the Global Peter Drucker Forum on management, FT management editor Andrew Hill asks Paul Polman, Unilever executive, and Wasima Khan, legal lexicographer and law lecturer at The Hague University of Applied Sciences to exchange ideas on leadership. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this podcast, Andrew Hill discusses how to best bring a business book proposal to publication with Georgina Laycock, publisher for non-fiction at John Murray, Joel Rickett, deputy publisher at Ebury and Bracken Bower Prize judge, and Jonathan Conway, whose own London-based literary agency specialises in non-fiction. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ahead of the launch of the 2018 FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year prize, this series discusses the six shortlisted books with its authors. In this final episode, Helen Barrett, the FT’s Work & Careers editor, and FT economics commentator Martin Sandbu, talk to Jeremy Heimans, who together with Henry Timms co-wrote New Power: How it’s changing the 21st century — and why you need to know, and Annie Lowrey, author of Give People Money. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ahead of the launch of the 2018 FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year prize, this fifth series discusses the six shortlisted books with its authors. In this first episode, Jonathan Derbyshire, the FT’s executive opinion editor, talks to John Carreyrou, author of Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, and James Crabtree, author of The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India’s New Gilded Age See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ahead of the launch of the 2018 FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year prize, this fifth series discusses the six shortlisted books with its authors. In this first episode, FT columnists Andrew Hill and Martin Wolf talk to Mariana Mazzucato, author of The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy, and Adrian Wooldridge, co-author (along with former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan) of Capitalism in America: A History. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The FT followed five people over the course of a year as they changed career in the middle of their working lives. In this final episode, Emma Jacobs hears about the challenges they have faced and their successes. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

There has been a shift from sending students overseas to study to offering them an MBA at home... not least in China, where the government is taking an active interest See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

They are at the top of their game, but they too were once just starting out. As students head to British universities in the next few weeks, we asked some of the speakers at the FT’s Weekend Festival to tell us what they wish they had known when they went to university. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The FT is following five people over the course of a year as they change career in the middle of their working lives. In this fifth of five episodes, Aimee Keane meets Anthony Rondinone, a musician turned software developer. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

How do you know when to ask for a promotion? And what is the best way to react if you think you are being underpaid? Knowing how to talk about money at work can give you a career advantage. Join Gillian Ku, assistant professor of organisational behaviour at LBS, Pip Jamieson, founder of The Dots, and Emma Humphreys, CFO at Unruly, as they talk to the FT's Isabel Berwick. This is an edited live-recording of an event the FT hosted in July. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The FT is following five people over the course of a year, as they change career in the middle of their working lives. In this fourth of five episodes, Emma Jacobs meets Thomas Davies, who gave up a six-figure salary at Google Cloud to set up his own business See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

It's holiday time. But can you walk away from the office? Should you ignore emails, or is it wise to check in? Join author and professor of organisational behaviour André Spicer as he talks to FT writers Emma Jacobs and Andrew Hill about the best way to relax in the digital age.Produced by Patricia Nilsson and music by Jude Barrett-Hambling. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The FT's Emma Jacobs talks to academic and author Joan Williams about her book White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America and why class in the workplace matters. As someone who has devoted most of her working life to gender issues, Professor Williams also has plenty to say on the #MeToo movement See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The FT is following five people over the course of a year as they change career in the middle of their working lives. In this third of five episodes, Emma Jacobs meets Collette Altaparmakova, a 40-year-old former stay-at-home mum who is now a trainee corporate lawyer at Linklaters See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

What are the main challenges you face moving with your job as a gay person? FT journalists Emma Jacobs and Josh Spero talk to Patrick Rowe from Accenture. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

FT journalists Laura Noonan and Patrick McGee completed their 2018 marathon in London. Isabel Berwick caught up with them on their fitness goals and what they will be doing next See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ahead of the launch of the 2018 FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year prize, this fourth series explores how to live and work better in a tech-driven age. In this sixth and final episode, Isabel Berwick, and Andrew Hill talk to Jillian Medoff about her novel This Could Hurt. The author focuses on an HR department to explore the role work plays in our lives. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ahead of the launch of the 2018 FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year prize, this fourth series explores how to live and work better in a tech-driven age. In this fifth episode, Isabel Berwick, and Andrew Hill talk to Andrea Komlosy about her book Work: The Last 1,000 Years. The author explores how work and its status has evolved. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Students from five business schools participated in the annual FT MBA quiz. The Work and Careers team caught up with a few participants and asked them about the best strategy for choosing - and landing - a good internship. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sound engineers at a company called CereProc in Edinburgh have spliced together bits and pieces of John F Kennedy’s recorded speeches to recreate one of the most famous speeches that was never delivered: the 20-minute address that President Kennedy was due to have given at the Dallas Trade Mart, a few hours after he was assassinated in November 1963. Go to the FT's Work and Careers section to read Sam Leith's analysis of the oratory. Credit: The Times/Rothco/CereProc See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ahead of the launch of the 2018 FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year prize, this fourth series explores how to live and work better in a tech-driven age. In this fourth episode, Isabel Berwick, and Helen Barrett talk to Leah Weiss about her book How We Work. According to the author even the most mundane jobs can have purpose. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Columnist Emma Jacobs talks to Daniel Cable, professor at London Business School, about his new book Alive at Work. The organisational behaviour expert explains experimentation is vital to help employees feel revitalised and offset the blues of the daily grind. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ahead of the launch of the 2018 FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year prize in the spring, this fourth series explores how to live and work better in a tech-driven age. In the third episode, Isabel Berwick, and Michael Skapinker talk to Jerry Muller about his book The Tyranny of Metrics and how the obsession with quantifying performance is bad for business. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The FT is following five people over the course of a year as they change career in the middle of their working lives. In this second of five episodes, Emma Jacobs meets Reny Morsch, a 51-year-old former forex trader who is now training to be a costume designer See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ahead of the launch of the 2018 FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year prize in the spring, this fourth series explores how to live and work better in a tech-driven age. In the second episode, Isabel Berwick, and Emma Jacobs talk to Catherine Price about her book How to Break up With Your Phone. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ahead of the launch of the 2018 FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year prize in the spring, this fourth series explores how to live and work better in a tech-driven age. In the first episode, Isabel Berwick, Andrew Hill and Emma Jacobs talk to Morten Hansen about his new book Great at Work: How Great Performers Work Less and Achieve More See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The FT is following five people over the course of a year as they change career in the middle of their working lives. In this first of five episodes, Emma Jacobs meets Kimberley Davenport, who is trying to adapt to self employment and working life after redundancy See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

How do you take your business book from proposal to publication? Find out in this bonus episode to celebrate the FT and McKinsey Bracken Bower Prize for best business book proposal of the year by a young business writer. Andrew Hill hosts a discussion with an agent, publisher, 2015's winning co-author and this year’s three finalists See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

To celebrate the FT’s Business Book of the Year Award, the team talk to the six shortlisted writers. In this sixth episode, Andrew Hill, management editor, and Emma Jacobs, work and careers writer, hear from Ellen Pao, author of Reset, on tackling discrimination in the tech industry. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

To celebrate the FT’s Business Book of the Year Award, the team talk to the six shortlisted writers. In this fifth episode, Isabel Berwick, assistant features editor, and Andrew Hill, management editor, hear from Andrew Lo, author of Adaptive Markets, on his hypothesis that the theory of market efficiency is not wrong but is incomplete. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

To celebrate the FT’s Business Book of the Year Award, the team talk to the six shortlisted writers. In this fourth episode, Helen Barrett, work and careers editor, and Andrew Hill, management editor, hear from Brian Merchant, author of The One Device, which examines the secret history of the iPhone. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

To celebrate the FT’s Business Book of the Year Award, the team talk to the six shortlisted writers. In this third episode, Helen Barrett, work and careers editor, and Andrew Hill, management editor, hear from Amy Goldstein, author of Janesville, about the impact on a Wisconsin community of General Motors’ decision to close its assembly plant See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

To celebrate the FT’s Business Book of the Year Award, the team talk to the six shortlisted writers. In the second episode of our third series, Isabel Berwick, assistant features editor, and Andrew Hill, management editor, hear from Walter Scheidel, author of The Great Leveler, about how violent shocks decrease inequality. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

To celebrate the FT’s Business Book of the Year Award, the team talk to the six shortlisted writers. In the first episode of our third series, Helen Barrett, work and careers editor, and Andrew Hill, management editor, hear from David Enrich, author of The Spider Network, about the Libor scandal and its central character, Tom Hayes. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

To celebrate the FT’s Business Book of the Year Award, our star columnists recommend the top reads to bring solace and advice in turbulent times. In the ninth episode of our second series, contributing editor Michael Skapinker and science commentator Anjana Ahuja, discuss Robert Hare’s Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

To celebrate the FT’s Business Book of the Year Award, our star columnists recommend the top reads to bring solace and advice in turbulent times. In the eighth episode of our second series, Work and Careers editor Helen Barrett and contributing editor Michael Skapinker discuss ‘Henry IV Part 2’ by William Shakespeare See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

To celebrate the FT's Business Book of the Year Award, our star columnists recommend the top reads to bring solace and advice in these turbulent times. In the seventh episode of our second series, FT columnist Andrew Hill and employment correspondent Sarah O'Connor join columnist and commentator Miranda Green to discuss Studs Terkel’s classic book 'Working'. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

To celebrate the FT’s Business Book of the Year Award, our star columnists recommend the top reads to bring solace and advice in turbulent times. In the sixth episode of our second series, Martin Wolf, the FT’s chief economics commentator, joins Helen Barrett and Andrew Hill to discuss ‘Between Debt and the Devil’ by Adair Turner See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

To celebrate the FT’s Business Book of the Year Award, our star columnists recommend top reads to bring solace and advice in turbulent times. In the fifth episode of our second series, Isabel Berwick, Lucy Kellaway and Andrew Hill discuss ‘Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day’ by Winifred Watson See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Discussing what skills today’s employees should possess to survive a career that is likely to span more than 40 years, Lucy Kellaway hosts Chris Hirst, chief executive of Havas UK and Europe, Keely Woodley, a Grant Thornton partner who leads its human capital practice, and Andrew Mullinger, the co-founder of Funding Circle See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

To celebrate the FT’s Business Book of the Year Award, our star columnists recommend the top reads to bring solace and advice in turbulent times. In the fourth episode of our second series, Helen Barrett, Miranda Green and Andrew Hill discuss ‘Station Eleven’ by Emily St John Mandel See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

To celebrate the FT’s Business Book of the Year Award, our columnists recommend the top reads to bring solace and advice in turbulent times. In episode three of the series, Tim Harford, Isabel Berwick and Helen Barrett discuss 'Designing Your Life' by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

To celebrate the FT’s Business Book of the Year Award, our star columnists recommend the top reads to bring solace and advice in turbulent times. In the second episode of our new series, Emma Jacobs and Andrew Hill discuss Brigid Shulte’s 'Overwhelmed' See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

To celebrate the FT’s Business Book of the Year Award, our star columnists recommend the top reads for bringing solace and advice in turbulent times and challenge listeners to read them in 12 weeks. In the first episode of our second series, Rana Foroohar and Andrew Hill discuss Tim Wu’s 'The Attention Merchants'. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Do you have a good idea for a business book? Following this year’s Bracken Bower Prize to find the best proposal from a young author, publishing industry experts and the prize finalists join FT management columnist Andrew Hill for a masterclass on how to get published See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

To celebrate the FT’s Business Book of the Year Award, our star columnists recommend six classic business books and challenge listeners to read them in 12 weeks. In episode seven, Helen Barrett, the FT’s Work and Careers editor, FT columnist Andrew Hill and Isabel Berwick, assistant features editor, discuss 'The Wisdom of Crowds' with its author, James Surowiecki. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

To celebrate the FT’s Business Book of the Year Award, our star columnists recommend six classic business books and challenge listeners to read them in 12 weeks. In episode six, Helen Barrett, the FT’s Work and Careers editor, and FT columnists Andrew Hill and Emma Jacobs discuss 'Sex and the Single Girl' by Helen Gurley Brown See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

To celebrate the FT’s Business Book of the Year Award, our star columnists recommend six classic business books and challenge listeners to read them in 12 weeks. In episode five, Helen Barrett, the FT’s Work and Careers editor, and FT columnists Andrew Hill and Lucy Kellaway, discuss ‘The One Minute Manager’ by Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

To celebrate the FT’s Business Book of the Year Award, our star columnists recommend six classic business books and challenge listeners to read them in 12 weeks. In episode four, Helen Barrett, the FT’s Work and Careers editor, and Michael Skapinker, the FTs business and society columnist, discuss 'Catch 22' by Joseph Heller See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.