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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.

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 three, Sarah Gordon, the FT’s business editor, and Martin Dickson, the FT’s former deputy editor, discuss 'Barbarians at the Gate' by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar.  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 two, John Thornhill, the FT’s innovation editor, discusses David Nasaw’s biography of Andrew Carnegie. Sarah Gordon, the FT’s business editor, pitches the next book, 'Barbarians at the Gate' by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar.  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 this first episode, John Thornhill, the FT’s innovation editor, chooses David Nasaw’s biography of Andrew Carnegie, while Helen Barrett, deputy Work & Careers editor, talks to management columnist Andrew Hill and the Chartered Management Institute’s chief executive, Ann Francke, about what makes a great business book.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Marianne Bertrand, professor at economics at Chicago Booth School of Business, explains why women MBAs earn less than their male peers as their careers progress.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Andrew Shapiro of GreenOrder, a sustainability consultancy that helped GE craft its 'Ecomagination' strategy, explains why middle managers can profit from a policy of enlightened self-interest when it comes to the environment.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Harvard Business School hosts a one week course that helps mothers return to work after time out raising children. Professor Tim Butler, the course leader, offers some free career advice to those unable to afford the $5,000 fee.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Professor Peter Williamson of the University of Cambridge's Judge business school says recession-hit western companies need to learn frugality lessons from their Chinese counterparts.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The FT's Della Bradshaw analyses the top MBAs of 2009 while London Business School's Freek Vermeulen explains how the crisis in capitalism is being taught in MBA classrooms. Will today's students learn from the chaos?  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

What are the best ways for managers to handle the new Generation Y workforce born in the 1980s and 1990s, and stop them getting bored? Adam Jones talks to Tammy Erickson, author of 'Plugged In' about Generation Y  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.