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ompared november 6 2014 1 comment good advertising should make you feel good inside so that it creates desire for the product or brand especially at this time of year stores try to capture minds so people can buy their gifts at the advertiser s shop it s all about aida building an a wareness of the brand then stimulating an i nterest in it followed by creating a d esire to a ct and make a purchase the daily mash is a satirical uk news website which publishes spoof articles it s a uk equivalent to the onion website in the us that has carried some world class spoofs believed and republished by the regimes in iran and china with a spoof about kim jong un of north korea a few days ago i read an article in the daily mash about the debenhams department store s new christmas ad campaign describing the campaign as demonic satan quits over debenhams christmas advert image from debenham s xmas ad as shown in daily mash article the accompanying image of a child in a red hood reminded me of red riding hood i was curious and so watched the ad the ad features a group of children let loose in debenhams after closing time there s the odd cleaner still around the children seem to have full rein to go wherever they want try on whatever they want whether it fits or not snatching taking and making a mess i found it totally materialistic and symptomatic of a me me me attitude i saw the kids in the ad as spoiled brats the only redeeming feature is that it did show the quality and range of goods available although mostly for adults rather than children s toys john lewis another uk department store has a reputation for producing really thoughtful and moving ads at christmas i wondered what they had produced for 2014 this was the opposite to the debenhams ad it showed a child in love with a pet penguin and how the two played together and had fun together except the penguin was lonely despite his friendship with the boy this ad captures the seasonal mood as it s all about sharing friendship love and giving and like the 2013 ad brings a tear to the eye john lewis s page launching the ad also has extras to download on the theme of montythepenguin there is also a daily mash spoof on this which i m not linking too as i found it in poor taste mentioning avian rights and trafficking i m curious to know which brings in the shoppers my bets are on john lewis last year s john lewis x mas ad was a classic and much praised it is worth watching just for how it manages to create a real appreciation of the brand i suspect this year s although not as emotive may prove to be better for sales figures as i think it finishes with a stronger call for action i e purchase i also looked at the m s christmas ad followthefairies it doesn t have quite the same magic and sparkle of either the debenhams ad or the john lewis one despite its theme two fairies delivering magic sparkle i e m s across town in scenes reminiscent of peter pan there was no sense of wonder which both the debenhams and john lewis adverts managed to invoke nevertheless i much prefer it to the debenhams ad for the same reason that i like the john lewis one the emphasis is on giving and creating happiness isn t that what the spirit of christmas is supposed to be all about share this print opens in new window print share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest email a link to a friend opens in new window email more share on delicious opens in new window delicious share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on myspace opens in new window myspace share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr like loading competition or co operation collaborate co operate to build and not to destroy february 19 2014 1 comment competition or cooperation when companies merge or when one company acquires another the aim is to integrate the two into one unified entity as quickly as possible the problem is that often this doesn t happen there is competition resentment and rivalry and the two fail to unite the problem is how to prevent this so that there is a successful integration of the employees of the two companies so that they take pride in the new merged company rabbi jonathan sacks suggests that the bible gives a way forward when he discusses what happened after the israelites built the golden calf in the sinai desert they were given a task to build a tabernacle to pray to god moses asks the israelites to make voluntary contributions to the construction of the tabernacle the sanctuary they do so with such generosity that moses has to order them to stop if you want to bond human beings so that they act for the common good get them to build something together get them to undertake a task that they can only achieve together that none can do alone the power of this principle was demonstrated in a famous social scientific research exercise carried out in 1954 by muzafer sherif and others from the university of oklahoma known as the robbers cave experiment sherif wanted to understand the dynamics of group conflict and prejudice to do so he and his fellow researchers selected a group of 22 white eleven year old boys none of whom had met one another before they were taken to a remote summer camp in robbers cave state park oklahoma they were randomly allocated into two groups initially neither group knew of the existence of the other they were staying in cabins far apart the first week was dedicated to team building the boys hiked and swam together each group chose a name for itself they became the eagles and the rattlers they stencilled the names on their shirts and flags then for four days they were introduced to one another through a series of competitions there were trophies medals and prizes for the winners and nothing for the losers almost immediately there was tension between them name calling teasing and derogatory songs it got worse each burned the other s flag and raided their cabins they objected to eating together with the others in the same dining hall stage 3 was called the integration phase meetings were arranged the two groups watched films together they lit fourth of july firecrackers together the hope was that these face to face encounters would lessen tensions and lead to reconciliation they didn t several broke up with the children throwing food at one another in stage 4 the researchers arranged situations in which a problem arose that threatened both groups simultaneously the first was a blockage in the supply of drinking water to the camp the two groups identified the problem separately and gathered at the point where the blockage had occurred they worked together to remove it and celebrated together when they succeeded the lessons for companies trying to work together should be obvious integration isn t through words but actions collaboration and co operation it s not through conflict or continuing the us and them approaches often seen in another both groups voted to watch some films the researchers explained that the films would cost money to hire and there was not enough in camp funds to do so both groups agreed to contribute an equal share to the cost in a third the coach on which they were travelling stalled and the boys had to work together to push it by the time the trials were over the boys had stopped having negative images of the other side on the final bus ride home the members of one team used their prize money to buy drinks for everyone similar outcomes have emerged from other studies the conclusion is revolutionary you can turn even hostile factions into a single cohesive group so long as they are faced with a shared challenge that all can achieve together but none can do alone the point is obvious in order to integrate two groups together whether they are companies teams departments or any other collection of people you need to encourage not just co operation with motivational words but also set in place collaboration that involves both groups sharing and building together when mergers acquisitions fail it is often because the two parts don t behave as one the robber s cave experiment gives an explanation on why this is and more importantly how to correct it share this print opens in new window print share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest email a link to a friend opens in new window email more share on delicious opens in new window delicious share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on myspace opens in new window myspace share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr like loading freedom of speech abuse and social media august 9 2013 5 comments over the last year or so social media sites have been attacked for allowing users to post abuse about other people onto their sites these include examples of cyber bullying on ask fm or tweets on twitter calling for other users to be raped the ask fm posts have been implicated in a number of suicides while in one notable case sally bercow the wife of the speaker of the uk parliament was found guilty of libel for a tweet she posted implying somebody else was a paedophile abuse via social media seems new in fact this sort of abuse is old the difference is not the abuse itself but the level of publicity it receives in the middle of the 19th century an anonymous individual sent letters to various people in the rural english town of tetbury threatening to burn their property agatha christie s 1942 43 detective novel the moving finger tells a story of letters sent to people in the quiet town of lymstock that resulted in the recipients committing suicide not so different from the ask fm cyber bulling except that as a mrs marple story things were not so simple and in fact the letters were used as a cover for murder hate letters often called poison pen letters go along with anonymous or silent phone calls as one way warped minds try and subvert the minds of opponents or people they dislike the moving finger includes the following the letters are sent indiscriminately and serve the purpose of working off some frustration in the writer s mind as i say it s definitely pathological and the craze grows hate letters are the ancestors of today s abusive tweets and social media comments there is however a difference whereas hate mail isn t public abusive tweets threatening rape or calling the victim an ugly cow are this has a larger impact as the hatred is seen by many more people and so is much more distressing social media platforms must take such abuse seriously it can and does lead to suicides especially if the victims already have low self esteem it can escalate and lead to false rumours as happened with lord mcalpine libelled by sally bercow even worse it could lead to action against the victim this is not a case of freedom of speech being blocked it s a case of free speech that is liable to cause harm to others being punished anybody who tries to justify abuse using arguments that they support freedom of speech is confusing freedom of speech with free speech freedom of speech is the right to communicate opinions and ideas and censoring these is one of the first signs of a restrictive society that can and does lead to totalitarianism it is not however a right to free speech where you can call for the rape of women or abuse others through words or images freedom of speech also implies responsibilities that justify that freedom there are people who would happily ban or restrict social media and even much of the internet completely in the latter case this includes david cameron the uk s prime minister who has called on search engines to create blocks for searches for abusive pornography or be forced to do so by law such calls will increase unless the relevant sites social media search engines etc show that they accept the 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