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    The most productive day of the workweek is Tuesday.
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    Nokia was once famous as a manufacturer of toilet paper.
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    If you pronounce the names of products wrong in an Apple Store, employees are not allowed to correct you.
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    A full-time cashier at Costco makes about $49,000 annually. The average wage at Costco is nearly 20 dollars an hour and 89% of Costco employees are eligible for benefits.
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    The CEO of Japan Airlines makes $90,000 a year, less than the pilots. During an interview, he said "We in Japan learned during the bubble economy that businesses who pursue money first fail. The business world has lost sight of this basic tenet of business ethics."
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    Lenovo CEO Redistributed His $3M Bonus to 10,000 Employees. Twice.
    As a reward for record profits, the CEO of Lenovo, Yang Yuanqing, received a $3 million bonus, which he redistributed to about 10,000 of Lenovo's employees. He did the same again in 2013.
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    It has been scientifically proven that praise rather than criticism is the best way to help employees improve.
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    Cow is a Japanese brand of shaving foam.
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