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"In ten to twenty years a few dozen large corporations will dominate the global economy. We know how global corporations seek domination, but how will co-operatives offer people around the globe an alternative? What has your co-operative done today to help invent that co-operative alternative?"

J Tom Webb

"Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people."

G. B. Shaw

"A desirable economic order would disperse power not concentrate it."

Robert A. Dahl

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"The co-operative nature of the business is not a sea anchor, dragging behind and slowing the ship, but the mainsail and source of its power."

 

GLOBAL CO-OPERATION IS A CONSULTING BUSINESS DEDICATED TO THE IDEA THAT CO-OPERATION IS GOOD BUSINESS. WE OFFER CONSULTING, INFORMATION, EDUCATION PROGRAMS, WORKSHOPS AND MATERIALS TO HELP YOU MAKE YOUR CO-OPERATIVES AND CREDIT UNIONS THE BEST BUSINESSES THEY CAN BE, THROUGH CO-OPERATIVE EXCELLENCE.
©David Towler

Our Approach

Years of experience and study of co-operatives has led us to conclude:

  • Co-operatives offer the most hopeful business alternative in a world where global trends are fraught with problems.
  • A bankrupt co-operative serves no human need.
  • In a co-operative, every area of management activity requires a unique co-operative approach.
  • Both boards and managers share the responsibility for co-operative leadership.
  • The social role of a co-operative is justice (enlarging the democratically owned portion of the economy) not charity (giving dented cans to the food bank).
  • Making money is an integral part of our co-operative values - it allows us to invest co-operatively for the benefit of our families, communities and society.
  • Co-operation among co-operatives is real only when it consists of practical business links.
  • Co-operatives need to reinvent their businesses continuously to respond to changing member need and the emerging global social-economy.

We can bring this approach to your co-operative or credit union's efforts to renew its co-operative nature and grow your co-operative business. Check out Marketing Our Co-operative Advantage page.

 
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