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The top small workplaces, and what makes them different. Profit sharing, benefits, and treating employees like human beings goes a long way.
How to Accept Criticism with Grace and Appreciation. Learn this technique, and your critics will turn into fuzzy pink kittens.
Cheat on the need to sleep. I can’t vouch for the safety of these methods; attempt at your own risk.
The new Dove Campaign for Real Beauty video packs a punch. A punch in the stomach if you have daughters, although it doesn’t tell us anything we didn’t already know.
How to survive as the family tech support person. You don’t have to be a geek at all to be the go-to person for computer help, as long as you know more than Grandma does.
My favorite piece of advertising trivia is that Dove and Axe are owned by the same company (Unilever). So many of those images hurled at the little girl are hurled from down the hall.
(That being said, I think the Dove work is fantastic and worthy of all the praise.)
posted by Jason on 10-3-2007 at 10:10 am
Yeah, the same company that owns Dove also owns Slimfast,too. So they make their “campaign for real beauty” while at the same time showing all the sexed up nympho bimbos on the Axe commercials and pushing thin bodies on the Slimfast commercials. More than a wee bit hypocritical.
posted by Melissa on 10-3-2007 at 1:59 pm