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• You Can't Always Get What You Want

  At the gym, I was thumbing through a new issue of Time Magazine . One of the articles was about college wait-listing. According to Time, the high school class of 2008, 3.4 million strong, is the largest in American history. As such, getting into a first Read More... Posted Friday, May 09, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Current Affairs, Professionalism, News and Politics, School, Plans, Hopes, Goals

• The New Inane E-mail Forwards? YouTube Videos.

  Just when you thought the fad of forwarding silly or inappropriate joke e-mails to colleagues had run its course, along comes YouTube . Now don’t get me wrong: I think YouTube is the greatest entertainment invention since Nintendo. My favorite YouTube Read More... Posted Friday, October 26, 2007 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 2 Comments Filed under: Communication, Current Affairs, HR Issues, Office Politics, Professionalism, Technology, Daily Life, Workplace Humor

• Arm Yourself Against Workplace Affairs

  Anita Bruzzese over at 45 Things has an interesting post on workplace romance. While Anita does mention that 58 percent of us working folk have dated someone you work with and that she herself married someone she met on the job, it’s cool that she doesn’t Read More... Posted Monday, September 10, 2007 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 1 Comments Filed under: Current Affairs, HR Issues, Office Politics, Professionalism, Troubleshooting

• Should Chivalry Be Dead?

  Last weekend, my friend from Michigan was visiting us in Chicago. She works in finance, which is still an industry made up predominantly of men, and she asked me what I thought about the role of traditional chivalry in the modern workplace. My friend Read More... Posted Monday, August 06, 2007 7:00 PM by AlexandraLevit | 2 Comments Filed under: Current Affairs, HR Issues, Professionalism, Work

• Why Taboo Conversation is Never Smart

  What is with all of these high-profile people shooting their mouths off? First there was Mel Gibson , then Michael Richards , and now uber-publisher Judith Regan . What do these three have in common? They let their guards down in the heat of the moment, Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 02, 2007 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Communication, Current Affairs, Business, HR Issues, Personal Marketing, Professionalism, Work Attachment(s): http://www.falcoreport.com/images/photo-judith-regan.jpg

• Big Brother Is Watching

  The Associated Press, via the New York Daily News , has reported that as of this Friday, U.S. companies will need to keep track of all the e-mails, instant messages and other electronic documents generated by their employees. The rules, approved by the Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 05, 2006 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 3 Comments Filed under: Current Affairs, Personal Marketing, Professionalism, Work