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Viv Groskop

  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
    Office life
    The problem with panels

    Group discussions don’t need to be ruined by droning participants and egoistic chairs

    Three plastic chairs sit lined up in an empty room
  • Tuesday, 21 May, 2024
    FT Wealth
    The writers who put their money where their mouth is

    Will the connection between authors and philanthropy last when the big figure advances only go to a tiny percentage?

    An elegantly dressed older woman with flowing gray hair seated on a rustic stool, wearing a multicolored skirt and dark blouse, in a minimalist room with a white background, looking contemplative
  • Tuesday, 12 December, 2023
    Working It19 min listen
    How to survive the office Christmas party

    … and how to recover if you’ve already embarrassed yourself

  • Tuesday, 25 July, 2023
    Working It26 min listen
    Best of: Imposter syndrome — turning self-doubt into a positive

    Imposter syndrome need not cripple your career. Here’s how to make it work for you

  • Monday, 3 July, 2023
    FT Wealth
    The art of portraying power, wealth and entitlement

    The thing about status is that most of us just don’t have it — the truly wealthy don’t need to try to look rich 

  • Tuesday, 16 May, 2023
    Working It17 min listen
    Do you see me? Staying visible in a hybrid workplace

    You don’t necessarily have to brag to get yourself noticed

  • Friday, 7 April, 2023
    Employment
    The balance between idleness and burnout proves elusive

    The idea that hard work is killing us all — as well as killing the planet we live on — has become persuasive and ubiquitous

    Workers are seen in an office tower in the Canary Wharf financial district at dusk in London
  • Sunday, 8 January, 2023
    Managing yourself
    Inspirational living is all Greek to me

    Ancient Stoics are go-to gurus for motivational writers and Instagrammers, but does any of it work?

  • Sunday, 1 January, 2023
    Managing yourself
    Life lessons from the self-employed

    Those who work for themselves have hard-won advice for everyone else, starting with what to wear

    A woman adjusts her tie
  • Monday, 10 October, 2022
    Corporate culture
    Forget the ‘toxic boss’ — meet the toxic underlings

    In the world of hybrid work a new breed of employee has emerged, supposedly making life difficult for everyone else — especially their managers . . . 

  • Sunday, 24 July, 2022
    Workplace diversity & equality
    Imposter syndrome is actually the human condition

    Being told to fix ourselves and self-improve ignores the wider reality of an imperfect world

    Zebedee Helm illustration showing two female construction workers, with one building a wall at one end and the other knocking it down from the other end
  • Sunday, 17 July, 2022
    Managing yourself
    Personal branding: we may cringe, but it works 

    Not everyone is comfortable with promoting themselves, although it can be an asset to reputation and visibility

    Zebedee Helm illustration showing a swan preening itself
  • Saturday, 30 April, 2022
    FT SeriesFantasy dinner parties
    A vodka-fuelled fantasy dinner with Zelensky, Borat and Joan Rivers

    Author Viv Groskop shares a Ukrainian feast on the Upper East Side

  • Monday, 25 April, 2022
    FT SeriesHow to manage stress and anxiety at work
    Workplace anxiety — and how to overcome it

    Feeling stressed or even fearful at work is increasingly common, but some simple techniques can help you manage it and support others

    A big cat is hissing in the face of a small cat which is recoiling
  • Monday, 18 April, 2022
    Flexible working
    Sometimes you’ve just got to get away from it all

    For many workers there is a growing exhaustion around meeting culture, both online and face to face

  • Sunday, 13 February, 2022
    Office life
    You can’t hide from the jerks at work

    Going back to the office may help us understand the humanity of bullies and bad bosses

    An illustration of workers at loggerheads
  • Sunday, 14 November, 2021
    Coronavirus economic impact
    The Great Resignation is a good story — but not what most people want

    The idea we are all planning new careers obscures the fact that many of us are grateful for our working lives

    Illustration by Kenneth Anderson of a woman working at her desk at home wearing slippers
  • Sunday, 26 September, 2021
    Future of work
    Beware the pitfalls of the post-pandemic hybrid event

    Producing conferences with both in-person and virtual elements requires expertise — and few organisations have it

  • Sunday, 15 August, 2021
    Work-life balance
    Hierarchy matters at work, so why aren’t we talking about it?

    We are wasting time arguing for basic things such as flexible work and avoiding the controversial themes

    TV series ‘Industry’ focuses on interns competing to climb the corporate ladder. Many people under the age of 40 are not interested in reinforcing that system
  • Thursday, 23 July, 2020
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Life lessons: France’s literary heroes revisited

    Two authors re-examine the colourful lives and artistic impact of some of the great 20th-century figures

    Françoise Sagan, author of ‘Bonjour Tristesse’, pictured in Paris in 1955
  • Wednesday, 8 April, 2020
    Coronavirus: free to read
    Zoom in on your lockdown meeting techniques | Free to read

    It is hard to project authority online — but pretending you are on TV will help

    MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA - FEBRUARY 10: Viv Groskop at the American Express Global Women's Conference Unveiling The Ambition Project on February 10, 2020 in Miami Beach, Florida. (Photo by John Parra/Getty Images for American Express)
  • Monday, 23 March, 2020
    Leadership
    ‘Look to the helpers’ for leadership in coronavirus crisis

    Those who attempt to project puffed-up authority are not people we can trust right now

    Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry, centre, responds to questions while British Columbia Premier John Horgan, back left, and Health Minister Adrian Dix listen during a news conference about the provincial response to the coronavirus, in Vancouver, Canada, on Friday, March 6, 2020. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP)
  • Friday, 17 January, 2020
    Ageing Populations
    Help! I’m heading into the U-shaped happiness abyss

    Studies suggest misery peaks at age 47.2 and I’m 46

    Adult woman wearing gray sportswear working out in indoor. Fit yogi woman doing Headstand, Sirsasana.
  • Friday, 25 October, 2019
    Public speaking
    Bad news: how you speak still matters more than what you say

    No one intends to take their parents into a job interview, but they sneak in anyway

    WESTWOOD, CA -JULY 31: Mime Marcel Marceau performs at the Geffen Playhouse July 31, 2002 in Westwood, California (Photo by Michel Boutefeu/Getty Images)
  • Friday, 26 April, 2019
    Gender politics
    A life on the gender-neutral ocean wave is not for me

    While many transport-themed slurs are offensive to women, calling ships ‘she’ is not one

    Ship Figurehead Boat figurehead
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