KBA Dec 2022 Meeting
The Importance of knowing the Season of your business – Recession time?
Each business (and market) has a life cycle and seasons (start up, early stage, growth, maturity to evidential exit).What is the season for your business? What is the season of your Leadership?God alone establishes the seasons – everything has a season! Gen 1:14 (NIV) “Let them be signs to mark the seasons”. Seasons are the full cycle from preparation, sowing, maintenance/caregiving, to harvesting. Followed by resting, storing up, resowing/investing and renewal.
- KBA December 2,2022 Topic: The Importance of knowing the Season of your business (NIV)
- God alone establishes the seasons – everything has a season!
- Gen 1:14 “Let them be signs to mark the seasons”
- Seasons are the full cycle from preparation, sowing, maintenance/caregiving, to harvesting.
- Followed by resting, storing up, resowing/investing and provision of needs.
- Importance of knowing seed vs. feed
- Discerning the times, seeking & listening (Before we make decisions)
- Who is our source of provision, Why do we exist as a business?
- Sons of Issachar had understanding, Jesus rebuked His generation for not discerning the times, Paul admonishes us to know the times RM 13:11-14
- Each business (and market) has a life cycle and seasons (start up, early stage, growth, maturity to evidential exit)
- What is the season for your business?
- What is the season of your Leadership?
- As sure as the sun raises, there will be storms, impacts of Macro economics around us
- MT 5:45 “Father causes the sun to rise on the evil and good, and send rain on the righteous and unrighteous”
- PV 16:3 Commit to the Lord whatever you do, He will establish your plans!!!
- Change is the one constant
- God alone establishes the seasons – everything has a season!
- Stewardship {cash, working capital, debt, budget monitoring, optional expenses, emergency?}
- Assessment {SWOT, value offering, competitor impacts, past season?, address threat/weaknesses)
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Opportunities
- personnel (yours and others)
- recession investing (sowing new seeds?) {Ops formality, policies, software, training, new widget}
- customer acquisition {price sensitivity, new? quality/professionalism, service, marketing/social}
- Management alignment, processes/systems, vision/values, teamwork, shared pain & opportunity!!!!!!
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