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If a store holds shrinkage below the company’s goal, every associate in that store gets a bonus that could be as much as $200. This is sort of competitive information, but I can tell you that our shrinkage percentage is about half the industry average. Not only that, it helps our associates feel better about each other, and themselves. Most people don’t enjoy stealing, even the ones who will do it if given the opportunity. And most associates don’t want to think that they’re working alongside anyone who does enjoy
Sam Walton
Sam Walton and John Huey
He spent ten days in and around Phnom Penh and left feeling good about his new friends’ ability to work the gene machine. It was the flight home, on January 10, 2020, that he found unsettling. He changed planes again in Guangdong—the province from which the Chinese doctor, the superspreader of SARS, had come. The airport was transformed. There were now lots of security people wearing masks. Passengers were required to step, one by one, inside an acrylic stall and be scanned for fever. “They weren’t fooling around,” said Joe. “I thought, What the hell is going on?” He’d never seen a fever box and, as he stepped inside, he had a feeling in the pit of his stomach. “I thought, These people know something we don’t.”
The Premonition
Michael Lewis
That’s why a survivor must compartmentalize and set small goals. It would kill him not to. Simpson “felt crushed” as he realized that the movie had to start over—the friggin’ movie!—right from the first stupid clichéd reel. It was enough to make you do what all good survivors do: He laughed at himself. “This is getting ridiculous,” he said out loud. You become like a slapstick version of yourself, taking pratfalls and suffering impossible abuses, like Laurel and Hardy getting run over by a steamroller and getting back up again.
Deep Survival
Laurence Gonzales
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