Workplace Buzz: Today’s Headlines

Workplace Buzz on December 28, 2007 8:18 AM

Curious Workplace Tales
Chicago outplacement consultancy Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc. recently released a list of what it called 2007’s most unbelievable workplace stories: Workers in Scotland lined up to take classes which encouraged flirting to get ahead in their careers. An Iowa woman was fired for misuse of company time for keeping a diary about how she avoids work Famed rap artist and business mogul P.Diddy turned to the Internet this summer to find his next personal assistant. Chicago Sun Times

Resolutions for Your Career
Goals are more meaningful when they result from your taking stock of where you actually are, which requires you to think about how your life has developed over the past year. Goals are also a good thing to look at come year-end. Step one is data collection. On a blank piece of paper, start writing down the significant happenings of the past year. New York Times

Analyzing Business Decisions
Think you're a pretty savvy decision-maker? Take this quiz, adapted from Why Decisions Fail: Avoiding the Traps and Blunders that Lead to Debacles (Berrett-Koehler, $22.95), by Paul C. Nutt. The author, who teaches management at the Fisher College of Business at Ohio State University, analyzed 400 decisions in U.S. companies over 20 years to see which ones didn't work out and what went wrong. CNNMoney.com

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