Nonprofit Performance 360 Magazine Vol 3 No 2

SEPTEMBER DOHRMANN

Cooperation and Collaboration: CEO Space

C EO Space was conceived in 1988 via a thought leader educational summit in Huntsville, Alabama, as a forum for CEOs that would provide missing mechanisms to accelerate business development. In the rapidly advancing entrepreneur age, there was a lack of centralized resources to mentor and rapidly develop entrepreneurial skills, to grow social capital via cooperative trading communities, and to execute customer base and alliance acquisition coupled to investor capital to decrease time and cost to reach owner growth goals. CEO Space satisfied those missing criteria, earning recognition by Forbes. CEO Space Business Growth Conferences, a networking environment unlike any other, develop meaningful, mentor-driven relationships where professionals are able to get the help they need in a cooperative environment. Cooperative Capitalism, the foundation of CEO Space, uses systemic organization theory to uncork output which is impossible to realize in competitive structure theory. Competitive structures are forged upon fear, punishment, and exploitation. Cooperative culture reforms are based on hub management, transmission of common vision within systems of accountability, reward, recognition, and celebration. Some fast-growing firms, like Apple, Google, Whole Foods, Zappo, and Pinterest use cooperative principles as expressed in Victor Perlo’s People vs.Profits .Meanwhile, the old competitive firms are missing earnings and laying off in record numbers as they fail to adjust to super change in the markets today. Cooperative capitalism is

a better model than competitive organizational theory for coordinating activity. While keeping our focus on the People vs. Profits mindset, CEO Space is evolving to better support our members’ business growth needs through solutions and systems that make cooperation easier to obtain. Advantages of Cooperative Capitalism Cooperative capitalism, at the national agenda level,is an improvement oncompetitive capitalism and communism. Those systems have delivered massive corruption and greed - consolidation of wealth by elites so that 1% own more than 99% of a nation’s wealth - which is unstable and likely to breed meltdown (the economic crisis of 2008 and the movie The Big Short) followed by trade war, ending with a contagious super crash. This is the global bubble both Clinton and Trump are ranting about, which is typically followed by world war to rebalance economics. We are smart enough and tied together well enough digitally to cooperate. At the national levels, twelve laws (expressed in Berny Dohrmann’s book Redemption ) create a fully transparent, fully reportable, fully accountable corruption-free zone without secrets in the financial system. The upgrade to cooperative capitalism is the final systemic revolution which precludes boom-bust cycles, provides full partnership and prosperity to the entire world, and removes poverty and lack of education from

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