MARKETPLACE FACTS
PLANNING FOR THE UNEXPECTED Module 510 B Mario Denton Marketplace facts: Planning for the unexpected
Marketplace facts: Planning for the unexpected
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.
Marketplace facts: Planning for the unexpected
Planning for the Unexpected What would happen to your business if you were in a deadly motor accident?
Marketplace facts: Planning for the unexpected
Planning for the Unexpected Do you have partners in your business?
Marketplace facts: Planning for the unexpected
Planning for the Unexpected What if you were suddenly in business with the estate of your partner?
Marketplace facts: Planning for the unexpected
Planning for the Unexpected • Have you made plans for your family, your key employees, and the continuation of your investment for your loved ones and employees?
Marketplace facts: Planning for the unexpected
Planning for the Unexpected • Many small businesses do not have formal Buy / Sell Agreements between partners, stockholders, and key managers.
Marketplace facts: Planning for the unexpected
Planning for the Unexpected • Give your family and key employees some piece of mind by getting something in writing this week.
Marketplace facts: Planning for the unexpected
Make rational decisions Make rational decisions when things are going well and emotions are not unstable.
Marketplace facts: Planning for the unexpected
Marketplace facts: Planning for the unexpected
Make a practical plan • Get with your partners and fellow shareholders today and make a practical plan about what to do when the “unexpected” happens, including when you want to buy out another’s interest.
Marketplace facts: Planning for the unexpected
Marketplace facts: Planning for the unexpected
Make a practical plan • It could be changed every five years or as needed. • Do it today, and both you and your spouse will sleep more peacefully next week.
Marketplace facts: Planning for the unexpected
Prayer Focus • Father, In the name of Jesus, I surrender myself to walk in the Word in the marketplace. 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 Marketplace facts: Planning for the unexpected
Learning, application and commitment: James 1: 22-25 • “Do not merely 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 mirror 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) Marketplace facts: Planning for the unexpected
Learning, application and commitment • One of the principles that I have learned from this lesson was … • I intend to apply this principle in my marketplace by: ….. • With the help of the Holy Spirit, I will begin applying this truth immediately. Marketplace facts: Planning for the unexpected
Jesus said: Take what I have given you and change the world!
Marketplace facts: Planning for the unexpected
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Marketplace facts: Planning for the unexpected
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