MARKETPLACE FACTS
MAINTAIN YOUR ETHICAL EDGE Module 307 D Mario Denton Market place facts: Maintain your ethical
Market place facts: Maintain your ethical
Market place facts: Maintain your ethical
Overall purpose of this series on Marketplace To understand and learn from various marketplace facts so that you can: • Be more effective and anointed wherever you are in the marketplace. • Adapt and benchmark your marketplace practices and principles discussed in this series. • Use these material to facilitate the work of evangelism.
Market place facts: Maintain your ethical
REASONS WE STRUGGLE TO MAINTAIN OUR ETHICAL EDGE 1. A belief that, to meet a specific deadline or a performance goal, some corners must be cut. Market place facts: Maintain your ethical
Market place facts: Maintain your ethical
REASONS WE STRUGGLE TO MAINTAIN OUR ETHICAL EDGE 2. A lack of resources (human or otherwise) or time needed to accomplish a particular task, thereby necessitating some drastic or improper action Market place facts: Maintain your ethical
REASONS WE STRUGGLE TO MAINTAIN OUR ETHICAL EDGE 3. Peer pressure
Market place facts: Maintain your ethical
Market place facts: Maintain your ethical
REASONS WE STRUGGLE TO MAINTAIN OUR ETHICAL EDGE 4. Pressures from higher up the chain of command to produce and to get the job done no matter what. Market place facts: Maintain your ethical
REASONS WE STRUGGLE TO MAINTAIN OUR ETHICAL EDGE 5. A belief that the decision or act is not really illegal or unethical.
Market place facts: Maintain your ethical
REASONS WE STRUGGLE TO MAINTAIN OUR ETHICAL EDGE 6. A belief that the decision or act is in the individual’s or the organisation’s best interest and thus would be condoned by others. Market place facts: Maintain your ethical
REASONS WE STRUGGLE TO MAINTAIN OUR ETHICAL EDGE 7. A belief that the decision or act will never be discovered.
Market place facts: Maintain your ethical
REASONS WE STRUGGLE TO MAINTAIN OUR ETHICAL EDGE 8. Fear of authority.
Market place facts: Maintain your ethical
KEEP IN MIND THAT GOD, IN HIS SOVEREIGNTY HAS PLACED YOU IN YOUR SITUATION TO DEMONSTRATE HIS CHARACTER TO PEOPLE IN DESPERATE NEED OF A MODEL. Market place facts: Maintain your ethical
Job’s intense announcement of his determination to maintain his integrity should serve as an encouragement
Market place facts: Maintain your ethical
“As long as I have life within me, the breath of God in my nostrils, my lips will not speak wickedness, and my tongue will utter no deceit...till I die I will not deny my integrity. I will maintain my righteousness and never let go of it.� (Job 27:3-6)
Market place facts: Maintain your ethical
ARE YOU WILLING TO IMPLEMENT BIBLICAL ETHICS IN BUSINESS
In attempting to gain or keep the competitive edge, perhaps you have been tempted, along with everyone else, to: Market place facts: Maintain your ethical
Perhaps you have been tempted, along with everyone else, to: - MISREPRESENT YOUR PRODUCT as to what it is capable of delivering
Market place facts: Maintain your ethical
Perhaps you have been tempted, along with everyone else, to: - OVER PROMISE AND UNDER DELIVER to win contracts
Market place facts: Maintain your ethical
Perhaps you have been tempted, along with everyone else, to: - UNDERCUT A COMPETITORS REPUTATION to gain the competitive edge
Market place facts: Maintain your ethical
Two reasons to be ruthlessly ethical • FEAR that you cant compete on an uneven playing field with folks who are bending the rules • FEAR of what people will think if you refuse to shade the truth
Market place facts: Maintain your ethical
Listen to God’s reassurance: • The man of integrity walks securely, but he who takes crooked paths will be found out. The integrity of the upright guides them, but the unfaithful are destroyed by their duplicity. (Proverbs 10:9; 11:3)
Market place facts: Maintain your ethical
Listen to God’s reassurance: • I have seen a wicked and ruthless man flourishing like a green tree in its native soil, but he soon passed away and was no more; though I looked for him, he could not be found. • Consider the blameless, observe the upright; there is a future for the man of peace. (Psalm 37:35-37) Market place facts: Maintain your ethical
Choosing to do business God’s way • May appear foolish in winning over one’s competitors. • However, it opens the door for God to demonstrate His faithfulness to you, and gives you an opportunity to observe His program in dealing with the unrighteous.
Market place facts: Maintain your ethical
Choosing to do business God’s way • Parenthetically, you might ask yourself, Is competition Biblical? Can I really love my neighbour as myself if I am in competition with him? Market place facts: Maintain your ethical
A Biblical perspective • Focuses on EXCELLENCE and SERVANTHOOD rather than on COMPETITION. • Since God has already promised to meet our needs, why not simply serve the public with a top flight product and rest the results with Him?
Market place facts: Maintain your ethical
Can I ask you the question again ARE YOU WILLING TO IMPLEMENT BIBLICAL ETHICS IN BUSINESS?
Market place facts: Maintain your ethical
Prayer Focus • Father, In the name of Jesus, I surrender myself to walk in the Word in the m arket place. Your word living in me produces the Life in this world. • The word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. It makes my way plain before me. • I boldly and confidently say that my heart is fixed and established on the solid foundation – the Living Word of God! Amen Market place facts: Maintain your ethical
Learning, application and commitment: James 1: 22-25
• “Do not m erely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. • Do what it says. • Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in the m irror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. • But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it - he will be blessed in what he does.” (NIV)
Market place facts: Maintain your ethical
Learning, application and commitment • One of the principles that I have learned from this lesson was … • I intend to apply this principle in my market place by: ….. • With the help of the Holy Spirit, I will begin applying this truth immediately. Market place facts: Maintain your ethical
Jesus said: Take what I have given you and change the world!
Market place facts: Maintain your ethical
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Market place facts: Maintain your ethical
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