Higher Power Business: Open Your Office Door All the Way...Because He is Already in Your Business!

By George Lovato Jr.

Running any business is challenging. As you will learn from experiences recounted in Higher Power Business it can only become easier if you open your office door all the way and let God in. The experiences and recommendations in the book reveal that God surrounds us 360 degrees by 360 degrees spherically 365 days a year. By simply recognizing th

• Language: English
• Publisher: Simon Cook Thinkers Press
• Release date: Feb 1, 2018
• ISBN: 9780984507962

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Disclaimer

Although the stories contained in the narrative are all true, some of the stories represent a composite of two very similar stories combined for the purposes of creating better content and brevity. These stories unfolded from the early eighties to present day. Although these events are from times past they remain relevant today to illustrate that God is already in your business.

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Table of Contents

Epiphany at the Meeting

God Is In Your Business

God Is Ever Present

The Great Contradictions and Hypocrisy

Love

Be Aware And Be Open to God

Prayer is Mindfulness

The Personal Reset Button

Give Often and Ask God What You Can do For Him

Spread the Word and Keep at it no Matter What

Dueling Fires

God Surrounds Us 360 By 360 365 Days a Year

95 Percent of the World Cannot Be Wrong

Epilogue

Dedication

I have had the opportunity over the years to try and do many different things in business. Most ventures were successful, however some not. But at least I was allowed to try. My family has always been very supportive. But most of all my wife of 41 years has been supportive and has always been there through the good and bad times as well as the thick and thin of things. Thank You Gale!

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Epiphany at the Meeting

I am a corporate finance consultant. Some call it Merchant Banking if you are the one responsible for creating the financing for your client. In any regard, whatever you call it, I have been successful at it for thirty five years. I have been involved in, privy to, or on the advisory perimeter on billions of dollars of transactions. In some assignments I created and structured and placed the financing. Some I just advised yet others I made loans or investments directly.

Suffice to say, I truly enjoy the work and as I have told countless friends and colleagues, I will most likely do it until I leave this dimension for the great beyond - aka heaven.

Back in the mid-nineties I was hired by a very successful technology company. The board of directors was a who’s who of titans of industry. Some had been on the cover of major magazines. Others were famous investors and top tier CEO’s, CFO’s and COO’s. I had originally been hired to assist in the structure of a third round of financing for the company. The CEO and the COO and me hit it off right away. To this day the COO and me are the closest of friends. I have been there for him during some of the most trying of times through the passing years. He too has been my rock when I have needed it most. During the nineties the executive team demonstrated a lot of trust in me and listened to me and took my advice almost all the time.

I had completed the first of many tasks when a round of financing was required. I modified my course of action to accommodate their request to put this much needed financing together. They intended on buying a very successful manufacturing company that could exploit their technology. It was the classic vertical integration. I was successful in structuring and arranging the next round and the acquisition was completed soon after financing.

The Assignment

Time passed and they called again. This time I was asked to attend yet another board meeting. The same cast of characters was in attendance. My assignment this time was to figure out what to do with this now non-performing subsidiary. To say the least I was a bit surprised to see this company they were all so high on at one time had turned out to be a loser. I was given ninety days to come up with a solution and make my final recommendation. So off to the salt mine I went.

I spent the time wisely interviewing the principals and the staff of both the so called troubled subsidiary and the well-heeled parent. The board had expressed its desire to just trash the investment. I saw something lurking in the background however and my suspicions were confirmed over time. I found the fatal flaw so to speak. I prepared my detailed paper and another board meeting was organized and I was asked to attend for the purposes of presenting my recommendation.

As always a pastor or priest was present and in this case a priest opened the board meeting with a prayer. It was the CEO’s brother; a very well respected local priest to be more to the point. Everyone participated. Then the CEO said Guys we know why we are all here let’s give the floor to George and get going. So I launched into a Power Point presentation. The fact of the matter was that although the company had made the initial investment in the subsidiary, and they committed in the beginning to invest additional sums over time to improve and integrate the operation with the parent, they had not invested any further. They sort of left it to run on autopilot. The subsidiary was floundering because the necessary funds needed to get the parent company technology integrated into the product they manufactured was never provided. Thus the conundrum; it appeared they were performing well below expectations but in fact had never been given the full and complete opportunity to perform.

My recommendation was to not to sell the