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This post at Management Craft resonated with me. There’s something magical about products or services that just flat out work well. My favorite few lines:

Come hell or high water this is going to be a great place to work that produces amazing results. Period. What if you started there? How would that change your decisions, actions, and conversations?

I often get frustrated at work because the company’s culture dictates that we get things done so that it’s acceptable, but no further. The daily struggle for me is to figure out how to demand “amazing results” when senior management isn’t necessarily interested in that.

I was saddened to see that North Carolina was one of the 9 states to not meet a teacher quality goal and will face the prospect of funding cuts. Since my kids will be going to school here, it’s of particular concern. But, one line from this article caught my eye.

Although the federal term is “highly qualified,” the definition is widely regarded as more of a minimum qualification, because it requires teachers to know what they teach.

Can you imagine? The law “requires teachers to know what they teach.” It’s hard to believe this requires a law. One would think to be hired, you would have to be qualified. I guess not.

I’m a huge fan of Mallomars. How can you not be? Well, now I know why I am and why my fellow North Carolinians aren’t.

This week marks the annual return to supermarket shelves, much to the delight of the masses caught in the Mallomar grapplehold in New York and New Jersey. It is here–for reasons the makers of Mallomar can’t quite explain–that 70 percent of the cookie’s sales originate.

“I just remember growing up and eating them,” said Mallomar maven Dolores Butler of Paramus, N.J. “If you grow up and eat them, you probably eat them later” in life.

This article was printed years ago, but I just saw it minutes ago.