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January 24 •2008

Guide takes critical look
at workplace backstabbing.

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till stalled in your career for
work culture that thrives on politics
the last umpteen years or so? and dishonesty. This is true not only
If that's true, then it's
in Fortune 500 companies, but also
obvious that you did not read
in businesses with three or more
Berl Falbaum's Definitive Guide to
employees.
Organizational Backstabbing pub-
"We reward executives who cut cor-
lished in 1994. So, depending on your
ners, sports figures that cheat, commit
age, you get a second chance because
crimes or use performance-enhancing
Falbaum has just published Volume II. drugs and revere morally challenged
"This guide contains some of
celebrities. So what does that say to
the same information as in
our young people? It says, 'It's
Volume I," he said. "Why fix
OK to cheat."'
something that ain't broke?
The book can be ordered
But it also contains new infor-
from the publisher at
mation and letters we received
iUniverse.com; at amazon.
from those who followed the
corn; and from bookstores.
advice in Volume I and are
Falbaum's career includes
now reaping the rewards.
10 years as a reporter at the
"Volume II contains advice
Detroit News, including five
Berl Fa Ibaum
on how to cheat on expense
covering politics; four years
accounts, how to steal ideas
as administrative aide to
from competitors, how to kiss up to
Michigan's lieutenant governor; and 15
the boss and much, much more"
years as a corporate public relations
"All I really did in both volumes was executive writing speeches and han-
report on what I saw happening in the dling media relations, public affairs
workplace he said. "And we give lots
and investor relations. He is presi-
of examples of high-profile cases:'
dent of Falbaum & Associates Inc., a
Using humor and sarcasm, Falbaum Farmington Hills public relations firm
said The Guide is really a book on
that he founded in 1989.
ethics — or the lack of ethics — in
He has taught journalism part-time
the work environment and national
since 1968 at Wayne State University
culture.
in Detroit and also at Oakland
"Basically, we have said as a soci-
University for about 15 years.
ety,'We don't care how you succeed,
He is a frequent contributor to the
just succeed.' As a result, we have a
Jewish News opinion pages. ❑

WSU Names
Law Dean

Robert M.
Ackerman, a
Pennsylvania
State University
Dickinson School
of Law professor
and former dean
of Willamette
Ackerman
University College
of Law in Salem,
Ore., has been named the 10th
dean of Wayne State University
Law School in Detroit, effective this
spring.
Ackerman comes to Wayne State
Law School from the Dickinson School
of Law in Carlisle, Pa., where he taught

torts, dispute resolution, conflict reso-
lution theory, negotiation and media-
tion.
He also served as chair of several
committees and was the director of
the Center for Dispute Resolution, the
nation's seventh-ranked law school
dispute resolution program.
Ackerman has held academic
appointments at Bar-Ilan University
in Ramat Gan, Israel, the University
of Vienna School of Law, the
Pennsylvania State University College
of Medicine and Leicester Polytechnic
School of Law (now deMontfort
University).
Ackerman has written extensively
in the fields of torts, dispute resolu-
tion, communitarian theory and civic
responsibility, and his scholarship has
appeared in a wide variety of high-
profile publications.