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Had an amazing time reconnecting with Tom McManus, an original Jacksonville Jaguars player, on his talk show today. As a former sports writer for the local daily newspaper, I covered the Jaguars in the late 1990s and early 2000s. During the interview, I shared my passion for teaching financial literacy. If you're interested in having me teach a How Money Works class for your group or organization, check out the brief interview and let me know! #mzmoneyworks #jaguars #jacksonville #financialliteracy #financialeducation

Where we came from…. Learn more about the Sutton partners and our team in this short 5-minute video: https://lnkd.in/gqWZjtAy

The Real Deal’s June issue is live for digital subscribers and soon to hit mailboxes across the country.⁠⁠ ⁠ This month, we take a look at billionaire developer and film producer Charles Cohen, who could see the largest debt auction yet for the troubled #office sector. We'll also explore the turf wars of the Hamptons and Palm Beach, crunch the numbers to determine Dallas' top-selling resi brokerages, and go inside the inefficient market for religious real estate, with in-depth stories like the following: ⁠ ⁠ ✍️: An investigation into how brokers’ misdeeds rarely get punished by state licensing agencies or trade groups. ✍️: A spotlight on NYC developer MaryAnne Gilmartin as she takes on a $5.5 billion development in Baltimore. ✍️: A profile of Newmark chairman Howard W. Lutnick, who is spending aggressively to lure top broker talent in a bid to surpass rival firms CBRE and Cushman & Wakefield. ✍️: A look at why luxury brands like Gucci and Prada Group are shoring up #realestate assets. ✍️: #TheClosing with veteran Chicago developer Mike Reschke on getting his start laying tile, his support for Mayor Brandon Johnson and his project for Google that could help revitalize the city's Loop. … And much more!⁠

Client video really brings what we do at Kingsbrook to life. Here Martin Haley goes into some detail of how we successfully sold his business for maximum value. If you are at the early stages of considering a company sale or maybe a bit further down the line in conversations, I would expect you will find what he has to say enlightening.

Please watch this episode of 3 Questions With featuring Carrington Crothers, Owner Prospect Street Studio MA talking about her networking group for Creative Talents and how they learn from each other to grow their businesses https://lnkd.in/eKB8WH4G #networkinggroups #creativetalents #businessgrowth

love this. this only occurred to me in late 2022 when people like Brian Chesky and Elon started explicitly talking about doing what needs to be done without worrying about what the business books say about management. particularly i felt, many times, that most books that i read about management (especially The Making of a Manager) were irrelevant to the journey of a founder. I also felt like any person who has a “startup mentor/advisor” title somewhere on their linkedin but haven’t built a tech startup before is full of crap, because they were repeating all the default management 101 advice that breaks under the pressure of a startup that can still die. most management advice assumes your company never dies, because they’re by high paid managers at big corporations. and if they are written by big tech managers, they were written before the layoffs. how i’ve operated LL for the first 18 months and the following 24 months are completely different and the difference comes from this culture change and me feeling comfortable doing what my gut says is right instead of what the temporary culture of the past decade said was right

Founder Mode by Paul Graham: "There are as far as I know no books specifically about founder mode. Business schools don't know it exists. All we have so far are the experiments of individual founders who've been figuring it out for themselves. But now that we know what we're looking for, we can search for it. I hope in a few years founder mode will be as well understood as manager mode. We can already guess at some of the ways it will differ." #YCombinator #FounderMode #ScaleUps

As always, PG with an instant greatest hit. Here's how you know if a company's CEO goes into "manager mode": 1) They don't reply/reactji a direct slack message from you within 48 hours. 2) They don't know the major product feature announced at the company's major conference. 3) They are in more than one executive team standup (E-team, S-team, LT-team, etc). 4) Their primary computer is an iPad. 5) They routinely don't show up to all hands meetings. What else?

After doing my dissertation on "The Becoming of Startups", conceptualizing entrepreneuring as a process of creation- I think it is interesting the distinction between creating and managing . There is no set standard for creation, creation is experimental play that cannot be dictated by templates of organization. Creation (founders mode) is a process that is fundamentally different from maintenance and scalability. In my opinion, considering them to be synonymous would be detrimental to creative processes of entrepreneurship!