專欄露西

My brand new motto: Nomina Rutrum Rutrum

A couple of weeks ago I wrote what I thought was the definitive guide on how to sign off an e-mail and was confident that I had laid the matter to rest. Yet I’ve just received an e-mail that has given me pause. It was signed off “Audere est facere” – which is the motto of the Tottenham Hotspur football club and means “to dare is to do”.

I don’t like football. I don’t like men who go on about their football teams. I don’t like cheesy exhortations. I don’t understand Latin. But there is something about this that appeals to me.

In fact, I find myself strangely drawn to other football mottos. I like Bury’s motto: Vincit Omnia Industria (Hard Work Overcomes Everything) and I like Blackburn Rovers’ Arte et Labore (By Skill and Hard Work) even more.

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露西•凱拉韋

露西•凱拉韋(Lucy Kellaway)是英國《金融時報》的管理專欄作家。在過去十年的時間裏,她用幽默的語言調侃各種職場現象,併爲讀者出謀劃策。她的專欄每週一出版在英國《金融時報》。露西在2006年獲得英國出版業獎的「年度專欄作家」獎項。

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