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Pilita Clark

Business columnist

Pilita Clark is an associate editor and business columnist at the Financial Times. She writes a weekly column on modern corporate life, as well as features and other articles.

She has worked for the FT since 2003, covering aviation and the environment, and was previously a Washington correspondent for Australian newspapers and a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.

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  • Sunday, 24 November, 2019
    Work & Careers
    Give a boss a break and firms will come out on top

    When star performers take sabbaticals their companies and colleagues also benefit

  • Sunday, 17 November, 2019
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    Mistakes happen, it’s how we deal with them that matters

    Being upfront when things do go wrong is useful advice in any workplace

  • Friday, 15 November, 2019
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    Five things I’ve learnt about saving the world

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  • Tuesday, 12 November, 2019
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  • Sunday, 10 November, 2019
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    Five ways to look as though you care about women

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  • Thursday, 7 November, 2019
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    Ukraine’s role in the US impeachment inquiry

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    How can we survive without plastic?

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  • Sunday, 3 November, 2019
    Work & Careers
    Why Unilever is shaking up the archaic way people are paid

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    Zuckerberg’s self-belief is a threat to Facebook

    The stratospheric confidence that drives entrepreneurs can sometimes be their undoing

  • Sunday, 29 September, 2019
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    The war on weasel words is failing and I am no help at all

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