Avoiding Tsunamis

What’s happening in our entrepreneurial world brings me deep sadness because I know that there is a better way. My team developed and launched a new dynamic system within companies that are now experiencing much greater success than they had previously. The only thing that stands between us and building a better system, where education and businesses are thriving better, is our unwillingness to let go of outworn competitive, hierarchical systems. The old hierarchical paradigm is narrowly based on a dog-eat-dog alpha survival leading to inefficiency, exclusion and loss of profit. The new cooperative paradigm is one of sustainable values, synergy and inclusion leading to greater success and profit. The countries and companies who have switched to the new paradigm are thriving. I believe that as we embrace new cooperative systems as individuals and organizations, the suffering will end and we will bring a new renaissance of growth, progress and profit. I know because this system has taken a company from ten million to a billion in revenue in just ten years.

What’s happening in our entrepreneurial world brings me deep sadness because I know that there is a better way. My team developed and launched a new dynamic system within companies that are now experiencing much greater success than they had previously. The only thing that stands between us and building a better system, where education and businesses are thriving better, is our unwillingness to let go of outworn competitive, hierarchical systems. The old hierarchical paradigm is narrowly based on a dog-eat-dog alpha survival leading to inefficiency, exclusion and loss of profit. The new cooperative paradigm is one of sustainable values, synergy and inclusion leading to greater success and profit. The countries and companies who have switched to the new paradigm are thriving. I believe that as we embrace new cooperative systems as individuals and organizations, the suffering will end and we will bring a new renaissance of growth, progress and profit. I know because this system has taken a company from ten million to a billion in revenue in just ten years. Economic and political tsunamis are happening worldwide. It’s undeniable. Look at what’s happening on Wall Street right now, with Congress’ handling of the U.S. deficit, Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac and the derivative markets, or the economic upheaval in Spain and Greece. Or take a look at the many of the Dictatorships in Africa and the Middle East, such as Egypt, Libya, Syria, and Yemen, which are crumbling because of the Arab Spring. Dictatorships keep people very immature, reactionary and powerless because they forcefully implement the hierarchical elitist system. Because these countries have never moved from a hierarchical elitist system and subsequently never provided the education and maturity needed for a true democracy, it will take a long time for them to rebuild. I have written this sequel to the original book in the hope that more people will understand the principles that lead to economic and social tsunamis and use the tools that we developed 10 years ago to help avoid or overcome them. The choice is obvious: Do we choose to Evolve our paradigms or Die? I know we can and will choose to evolve and flourish. There is hope for our world in a proven system for restructuring organizational architecture.

Victor Pinedo, Jr. is President of Corporate Transitions International. As a consultant for organizational change since 1969, he created Organizational Architecture, an organizational transformation program that is unique in its long-term effectiveness. Organizational Architecture (OA) is in use today by corporations around the world. Mr. Pinedo is the author of the bestselling book on Organizational Architecture, “Tsunami: Building Organizations Capable of Prospering in Tidal Waves.” Mr. Pinedo's experience in the business world is as extensive as it is deep. He became CEO of the Coca-Cola bottling company in Netherlands Antilles at age 23, and continues to be actively involved in the management of his family’s companies, the VEPS Group, Inc. He has consulted for Shell Oil, The Bank of America, Hardees Food Systems, Petroleos de Venezuela, and The Coca-Cola Company Caribbean ‘Division A’ Bottling Companies, among others. His work has brought him into contact with the cultures of a variety of countries, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Holland, Italy, Mexico, Venezuela, as well as the United States. He has led various mergers, including the Shell Refinery in Netherlands Antilles with Venezuelan Petroleos de Venezuela, forming the new ISLA Refinery, and the creation of Internexus, an International language academy out of Yazigi, a Brazilian Company and EIE, a group of English schools in the United States. He participated in the integration of the Brazilian staff and the North American and European staff in TRITEC, the joint venture between Chrysler and BMW in Brazil. He is presently working on a project to integrate all the Coca-Cola Bottlers in the Caribbean into a new group called KOCBA. Mr. Pinedo is Co-Chairman of the International School Connection and cofounder of Partners in Global Education (PGI), who at the time of the writing this book, is working on a program which will use the Internet and live meetings in integrating schools all over the world (China, Netherlands, Sweden, Spain, USA, Brazil, and other countries). This integrated program was presented in May 2012 in Tampa, Fl. The marketing delivery of this program will be utilizing a great many of the tools that were taught in ‘Total Product Blueprint.’ Mr. Pinedo is an experienced public speaker, with a long list of speaking engagements, and is fluent in Dutch, Spanish, English and Portuguese. Mr. Pinedo holds a Masters' Degree in Psychology and has completed the coursework towards a Doctorate in Business Administration. He is a Certified Gestalt Therapist from the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland. In addition to Avoiding Tsunamis and Tsunami: Building Organizations Capable of Prospering in Tidal Waves, his other publications include: • Using Loevinger's Ego Stages as the Basis of an Intervention Model (University Associates) • Ego Stages as the Basis of an Intervention Model (in Group and Organization Studies) • The Role of Emotions in Building Successful Organizations • A Strategy for Change, Strategic Planning vs. Strategic Being Mr. Pinedo is currently working on his newest book Bringing Back the Soul to Enterprise.