Peter Diamond

The critically acclaimed period drama Mad Men  centers around an ad agency and its employees adapting to a world transitioning through the 1960s. In season 5, episode 4 (entitled 'Signal 30'), two employees, Lane Pryce and Pete Campbell, have a series of miscommunication and disagreements that result in a fist fight in the middle of the office. The events are as follows. Lane Pryce is the financial chief and a founding partner of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. Originally from England, he has always found it difficult to woo clients the way that the American executives in the accounts department can. Suddenly finding himself with newfound confidence, he enlists expert account man and fellow partner Roger Sterling to train him on how to talk to a client. After Roger gives Lane a lengthy lesson on how to talk to potential costumers, Lane sets off to get dinner with a representative from Jaguar Cars. Lane's dinner goes incredibly poorly. After attempting to use many of th...

In order to understand how team production works with the gift exchange, lets look at examples of gift exchange with varying levels of teamwork involved. As a general trend, an increase in teamwork and coordination usually increases the quality of the gift exchange. Little to no teamwork Birthday presents: Birthday presents are perhaps the most simple and ubiquitous form of gift exchange. It's someone's birthday, so you give them something as a gift. There is often very little coordination involved, as people like when the gift is a surprise. This can result in shoddy gifts from uninformed gift-givers, but if you're lucky both parties are in sync and a great gift is given. This is more or less a complete crapshoot, and really just depends on how well you know the person. Secret Santa: Much like with birthday presents, Secret Santa involved very little coordination. In fact, part of the rule is that no one knows who has been picked to give a gift to whom, henc...