Sunday, August 19, 2012

Lucy Kellaway - Why I’m inspired by the veteran Cosmo girl

What she did and what no one else seems to do any more was to say exceedingly sensible, realistic things about work.

But the final tip is the most valuable of all. Gurley Brown has discovered the answer to the problem so many of us suffer from: we can’t for the life of us remember people’s names, even when we’ve worked with them for ages. For her, the answer was simple: she called everyone Pussycat.

What makes this so inspired was that far from making people feel insignificant, it made them feel she loved them, and so they loved her back.