Trading on past career triumphs seems a little sad – unless they’re sporting triumphs

I’ve been encouraging bankers, lawyers and accountants to spend the rest of their careers in the classroom

Remind yourself how awful most business leaders are at speaking: the bar is low

Having time to spare makes you feel in control – and comes with moral high ground

Bragging about not toiling on holiday part of wider trend of shorter working hours

Barbed farewells insensitive to jobseekers but highlight where recruiters go wrong

The gap between expectation and reality is the biggest problem for 20-somethings

The 10 minutes I debated high heels on radio were the sanest I have had since the referendum

Do you really need a smart clothes peg to make your life a little easier?

Apple chief found to be most influential CEO on Twitter despite his just 40 tweets this year

In a group of 200 bankers I could see only one who seemed to be in their 50s – the CEO

Entry-level graduate jobs promise the world but deliver monotony and pointlessness

Beauty of being late adopter of social network is learning from others’ efforts – both good and bad

Meg Whitman’s lieutenant was ‘disappointed’ with what I’d written. Here is my response

The older generation loved a spoof email but millennials can’t afford to joke around

Here are some of 2015’s worst examples of the drivel spoken and written in business

Having reported on ‘industry’s onward march’ my father became a casualty of it

How about using honest, honourable terms for the people who work for your company?

It’s all guff, the same words crop up over and over again

Though you could always unload the dishwasher while you’re hanging on the line . . .

Most of us seem to hate it when dinner parties turn into seminars, but men adore it

While most admin tasks are getting less painful, expenses are getting more so

Accenture’s decision to remove the annual performance review is welcome news

Japanese business still rooted in deference to authority

We are hopelessly faceist. Nobody calls anyone ugly anymore, they just don’t hire them

Chief exec tries to convince that the company has a plan and to remind employees what it is, in case they had forgotten. What he came up with was largely meaningless hyperbole

The ego that throws its weight around is the most tiresome. But the silent ego is most dangerous.

Even the sanest people become unhinged when it comes to buying and selling

Seeing him, it is difficult to argue that the most successful leaders are the humble ones

Dick Costolo undermined Twitter’s brand with his windy nonsense

Contrary to expectations, most of the supersuccessful who wed are in it for the long haul

My 30-year anniversary at ‘Financial Times’ proves that I have been very lucky

Senior staff should have to jump same hoops as recent graduates do

Pretence that motherhood is one long, democratic, emotional jolly jape is a far worse lie than the one that says motherhood is a job

All managers often pick hopeless people. That is not surprising given how hard it is to know what someone is like until they start

A black eye and an arm in a sling: not a good look for an interview to become a director

Festival of sycophancy as ‘Guardian’ editor announces he is to step down

Climbing the corporate ladder has never looked less appealing

Many traders were boorish, mean, sexist, racist barrow boys who operated a feudal system with its own hierarchy