Episodes
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...
Published 12/11/18
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
Published 12/06/18
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.
Published 12/05/18
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.
Published 11/15/18
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.
Published 11/06/18
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
Published 10/29/18
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.
Published 10/21/18
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.
Published 10/04/18
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
Published 09/26/18
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.
Published 09/13/18
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.
Published 08/30/18
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.
Published 07/25/18
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
Published 07/21/18
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.
Published 07/10/18
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
Published 06/13/18
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
Published 06/02/18
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.
Published 05/07/18
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
Published 04/24/18
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.  
Published 04/13/18
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. 
Published 03/28/18
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.
Published 03/22/18
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
Published 03/21/18
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.
Published 03/20/18
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.
Published 03/18/18
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.
Published 03/01/18