Wibes, Women in Business España is almost dead – almost liquidated, without any legal decision or “law” to support what has been carried out. The Steering Group 2020, the untouchables – those that raised themselves above all – did it! Figuratively speaking, they raped the founder too, a member of honor, the President. And what did the members do? They gave the untouchables all their support and clapped their hands! … and the applause was resounding.
By Anne Solheim
This is, in a way, insane. And I seldom get paralyzed and speechless, especially not in business. But this type of management that I have experienced in 2020 that still blocking it all is sad, although it is not the first time I witness something in the same direction. But it is a while ago, had nearly forgotten it, so it was easy to reach a state of speechlessness – for a little while – while I refreshed memories.
It is special to witness a mafia way of conducting a liquidation and being the only paying member in the affected association who reacts and asks questions and tries to get people to understand what they support. And for a short moment, I thought: Where are all the normal ones, those with dignity, integrity, and professionality? Those who understand something about associations, rules, laws, management contra “something” not worth being defined as anything but evil things but have access to the bank account, the information, and communications systems. They are acting like …, And those with a tiny, tiny degree of imagination know what some like that can cause, will not be surprised: I got harassed too – by acclamation.
Enough is enough! The time for internal revelations externally has come.
This blog post follows the history of Wibes and covers the period from December 3, 2019, to August 26, 2021. Through this, I am publicly revealing what has been conducted during 2020 and so far in 2021. But before reading further, do not even think of diminishing this scenario: This is not a catfight! This is a classic way of destroying societies. This type of behavior doesn’t know time, place, or sex. It is one of the world’s largest problems, but too few understand what actually happens and its consequences, especially not their own role in this tragedy. Even it is so simple to understand!
Before you read further, I will invite you to make a choice – if you want to know more: 1) Read on or 2) Jump to “A brief history from startup for the Steering Group 2020.” The first alternative gives more than the second one, a deeper insight into this mess. The second is spotlighting what I have defined as something to become speechless of … or 3) Leave the text – forget it all. Just choose your path 😊
The Steering Group 2020 in Wibes has deliberately caused a tragedy. From the point to be trusted as the management and the developers of the association – a unique society – they have conducted a complete turnaround during a short time. And it was planned. And now they are near their finish line. The association is almost dead. And they have been disclosed too. Sad?
That depends on the perspective. On some level, it really is. But to calm me down in this case, I say to myself this is a success story – because of where and how it happened. And because it is possible to see it as a part of something bigger, this can turn out to be a stepping stone to success. But in the first place, it is a pathetic tragedy.
The liquidation process of Wibes is like a mini-laboratory in how to destroy societies, any type of society all over the globe. And if you understand this and like to study and understand polarization in relationships, you will understand why it is so many refugees today, worldwide, and on the other hand, you may succeed in any area of life you focus on, e.g., as an entrepreneur, athlete, high-level manager (leader), partner, lover, etc. Then this Wibes-killing can be defined as useful. But it is “black.” It is “a gorilla thing” – and gorillas are not to joke with. They can demand a lot of energy. And if you wish to survive within such “games” with the energy you do not have, you or the relationship will die. But if you are wise enough: the sky is the limit.
But where to start? My advice is: Start by observing them, “the gorillas,” they are almost everywhere 😊 … perhaps as a part of yourself too. But why is the liquidation of Wibes happening? I do not know. The only “thing” I know, this is a result of classic low-level management. So, this may be interesting to those who want to do or be the opposite, learn about growing and thriving. So, if you have the intention to create something unique, read and think this through.
A digression: Once upon a time, I trained youth athletes. Mental training with people that became top athletes in a type of winter sport. And those who became world champions after a while were those who could see the whole: dare to lose and dare to win, keep focusing regardless of ups and downs. Just worked on, in the smartest way as possible related to themselves and the situation. They dared to trust the gut feeling, acted on relevant impulses, and handled fear intelligently. A typical “get familiar with the polarization system” related to themselves. Often they gave everything without anything in return.
So back to the mafia part of the polarization “system” and Wibes.
Three of the liquidators of Wibes that suddenly started to call themselves The Real Business Queens, the founders of JMS Business Group – Creating Solutions, knows why this happens. But I, as an ordinary paying member in Wibes, do not. So, I am only observing, speculating, and have questions. And based on what I can observe without information about normal association operation, through meetings and reports, and how members that put out questions are treated – and relate this to my competence as an instructor and coach in international management and leadership, and not forget: My own experience for decades as a leader and manager myself in all levels, both in international business and nonprofits organizations, this is a classic case to grab something. And harassment is an essential part of “business” like that. Perhaps a variant what follows: a tiny, little drop in the huge ocean. But enough drops of this quality also support the creation of the ocean – like it is today … very polluted.
It is sorrowful to witness what is about to happen to Wibes. But it is interesting too. Because with “the right” perspective, it is an important learning case. Otherwise, I would never in my life have sacrificed a calorie concerning giving it any attention – more than I do to irritating dust: Get somebody to remove it, as professional and fast as possible. But, after all, I work with online teaching.
But back to Wibes: Fast turnarounds happened in a society that had a culture with joy, good relationships, interesting network meetings, and more to a totally different culture with lies, personal harassment, misinformation to members, financial irregularities, and worse, are sad and exceptional to witness by the first glance and is a fact all over the world these days. Do you remember what happened in the US, in The United States Congress, not long ago?
Many go like crazy, according to journalists, these days – where everything is visible all over the world in seconds. That’s a fact, and thanks for the rapid way to communicate among most. But the fear focus is a problem, just turn on the news, learn and see it all from “the right” perspective. Perhaps it is possible that “the light” will turn on in the mind of enough people around the globe too. Because as far as I know, according to science and statistics, we only need about 5% of the population to do “a turnaround,” and artificial intelligence will speed the development too. And everyone that works with this knows that “gorillas” are soon about to move out in the forest again if enough forest is left to room them … at least it is a free exercise to dream about it 😊 … and also start to dream about “contrasts” that are more sophisticated, spiced with high-level intelligence. And in the meantime, until that materializing is a fact, it is possible to prepare – aim against to be among those who will understand “the future game.”
And yes, it is true: This scenario related to Wibes as a minilab of the world’s societies has been special. So special that it became a keyword to me “to show my face.” I decided to do a turnaround myself, a turnaround for the Wibes environment. Because up to now, I have lived under the radar, where I love to be – while I observe everything and everybody. And what happened? I got harassed for my competence and experience too. But so what? Business as usual from “that part of the world.”
Briefly said, I have apparently converted to “something” really bothersome, an opponent, one of the great ones – for those who do not know me – like most of the Wibes’ers don’t. And one of “the shocking news” related to me in this environment, that does not seem to use their time to read CV-summaries, is that I am the only one among the paying members who ask questions related to what the Steering Group 2020 has done, and not done, during one year, 2020 – and still are doing. A provable planned liquidation. In sum, “something” that gets me to think of a crime scene, far away from fair play, conducted of “gorillas.” And if you can manage this text until it takes you through my mentioned questions, you probably will see a shadow of the world-destroying concept as well. And then you can use this tiny information for free in your own life, to make your success.
Related to the personal part here, I have voluntarily, for free, entered a tough role for most. But sorry for some, not to me. Because this special one, the questioner, has given me several and valuable career assignments in more complicated business than this Wibes case, an amusing fact for me 😊
In Wibes, the culture platform rapidly changed in 2020. A new culture spiced up with dubious actions enabled the liquidation of Wibes, a business organization registered in the Spanish Ministry of the Interior. And the symbiosis of different actions and behaviors turned out to be an interesting case for us in Queens. We decided to take it as far as possible to clarify how such cases work in Spain, which is so different from Scandinavia – and because this Wibes case is a school example of how to destroy a society, it is easy to understand how to do the opposite. This we found worth spending some energy on because our core business is: Skill development for entrepreneurs.
Think this through, especially those not related to this case, who want to learn a tiny part about the difference between low-level management and leadership. To create a polarized situation is a classic management trick, and “Divide and Conquer” is a management tool. The absolute easiest to use when to acquire and maintain power. Even gorillas and other animals do that. And the Steering Group 2020 is no exception. They are sitting in the driver’s seat of the liquidation of Wibes, supported by members who were easy to recruit. Because they are paid! They have got the promise to be paid with crumbs by having their membership fee for 2020 in return! Could it be more pathetic and classic? With no root in the applicable rules either. Then a mafia business is a good definition, as I see it.
For some readers, it also could be interesting to know what all the mentioned five persons in the Steering Group 2020 have as business areas, for the time being: real estate, legal advice, home styling, insurance advice, and art painting, among others. So they are not at all incompetent, even though a lot is not as it should be, and it is problematic for me to observe.
Are you with me? Perhaps not many find this interesting, and I know that this, for some, generates feelings like you need to take a big yawn and go to bed because all energy suddenly was sucked out of you. But, do not do that. This case is a core of what playwrights in Hollywood spend resources on making entertainment that really grabs you. It is a treasure trove of experiences in different ways. But it is not dramatized yet. It is only facts.
A brief history from startup for the Steering Group 2020
The Steering Group 2020 was elected according to new rules that were not approved by the Spanish authorities. But that they did not tell anybody. They were working behind the scenes with something that now looks like “to reach other goals,” even though the fact related to this history shows that they could not be approved as managers of Wibes by the Spanish Ministry of the Interior without some special actions. And because of that, the new statutes did not obtain approval either. And as I said, “nobody” knows. But the Steering Group 2020 had the trust from the members to take the business association forward, by the law, which then was totally different rules than they operated according to, the not approved ones. The applicable rules happened to be, according to the law, the old ones that have functioned in 2017 – 2019. But shit happens; those rules did not have the necessary liquidation clause. But they create solutions, so they worked on!
After almost a year, the former President, Berardi, understood what was happening in her name behind her back. Because one day, a messenger person come to her home at the door with a copy of a document registered by the Spanish Ministry of the Interior. That shows her the status of the management in Wibes, which was a special experience! Berardi was the President in Wibes!
And because of that and the quality of what was done or, more correct, lack of quality, she had to “sets down her foot” internally and try to stop the Steering Group 2020 that was on its way to damage the organization which turned out to be difficult. And what did they do then? Then they – who were not approved by the Spanish authorities to lead Wibes but did according to statutes that were not approved either – chose to continue their plans by running their “game.” And they accelerate their “carpentry” with lies.
Why? That is a question because it is not possible to clarify internally in Wibes. And because of that, many others turned up in my head, which lacks answers and gains wonders. Therefore, I will soon be spotlighting the liquidation of Wibes by officially publishing some of them, with the hope that there will turn up some answers.
Perhaps somebody knows. Because there is always someone who knows that also can see patterns and correlations. And those often want to tell, if they could be anonymous, which I experienced in another difficult case for me personally not long ago. Actually, a case related to Wibes and one in the Steering Group 2020, too. And through that case, related to what now happens, I can recognize a shadow of a pattern – also confirmed by other cases. But I am not sure of anything, still in the question and wondering phase. Perhaps because so-called realists need a lot of information when testing hypotheses.
But back to Wibes and my announced questions! I have 16 of them.
The basis for the questions about the liquidation of the association Wibes is The Steering Group 2020 suddenly – but far away into the year 2020 – claimed that they were not approved by the Spanish Ministry of the Interior as managers of Wibes; because the President, Berardi, would not resign; from the association!
So, according to this basis for my 16 questions but no success in getting reliable answers, I have desired to publish them here and now, hoping to gain something that would clarify.
- Is there a reason for Berardi to not resign from the Wibes board as President when she herself has chosen to resign from the role she has held for 3 years 2017-2019 on Wibes annual meeting in December 2019?
- Is there a reason why the Steering Group says that they have “a paper” that the President must sign to be deleted as President? A document she has never seen.
- Is there a reason why the Steering Group withdraw all the money from the Wibes account in cash, immediately after they took over, and the account was closed. And a new was created in another bank?
- Is there a reason for the Steering Group to refuse to give Berardi, a receipt for money and an expensive phone she has returned to the association on her resignation? … That is, to confiscate values, because that is the concept of this, as there is no will to confirm this by a receipt.
- Is there a reason why Wibes members have not been told how much money the closed bank account had, and how much money the newly created account has received, and what has happened in the financial year 2020? … no financial reports at all have been produced in that financial year, which is illegal!
- Is there a reason to hinder an elected member of honnor i Wibes, the President, Berardi, from communicating internally in Wibes by blocking her out from the organization’s main communication platform – so that she herself had to create a new electronic communication channel, which the Steering Group recommends members withdraw from?
- Is there a reason to scrap the articles of association that Wibes operates according to, which have been in operation for 3 years and have been approved by the Spanish Ministry of the Interior, and create completely new articles with a section on how the association is to be liquidated? … articles of the association which, as known, was not approved by the Spanish authorities because the Steering Group did not either.
- Is there a reason why the Steering Group did not inform the members that they were not approved by the Ministry of the Interior as the board of Wibes for almost a whole year? Something Berardi discovers in November 2020, then puts her foot down and actively takes up the role of president. Because, that was what she was. The President sets formal requirements for the unapproved Steering Group related to the operations in 2020, including transparency and financial reports in accordance with what the law requires. Formal requirements they do not answer!
- Is there a reason why the Steering Group refuses to provide members with the information requested by the President, which is normal information in any association and regulated by Spanish law? Information points that are well concretized. Information all members received in the years 2017, 2018 and 2019, include the financial status.
- Is there a reason why the Steering Group convenes an extraordinary annual meeting with a notice without mentioning a single matter to be dealt with?
- Is there a reason why an extraordinary annual meeting, which during the meeting turns out to be about the liquidation of Wibes, has left no trace, neither by distributing the Zoom recording nor the decision from the meeting?
- Is there a reason to force through the liquidation of a business association that has cost a lot of money and time to be regulated into the Spanish Ministry of the Interior which has only flourished through three years of operation (2017-2019) by the roules, and now will be liquidated according to statutes that was not approved in Spain, by a Steering Group that was not approved by Spain, on the grounds of creating a social network, and using a notary to write the President out of Wibes by “coercion” without the President, Berardi, knows it – and without her being contacted by the notary to confirm that there are a correct allegations made by the Steering Group that she as President not will sign out of Wibes voluntarily? In addition, this is a notary public that one in the Steering Group works closely with in connection with her own business, legal advice.
- Is there a reason why the Steering Group has assigned them selves roles they never have been given via elections at an annual meeting where such is to be decided? … and got it stamped by a notary to look like it is legal.
- Is there a reason why those who do not want Wibes to exist that they do not just opt out of the business association and start a social network, such as they want to have?
- Is there a reason why the Ministry of the Interior suddenly approves the forgery of the Steering Group 2020? Even well into the new operating year 2021 (July 21, 2021) after the annual meeting of Wibes for 2020 has been held under the auspices of the registered and legal President, Berardi, who wanted run the business association in 2021, according to adopted rules approved by the Ministry of the Interior – and new paying members have become part of Wibes, and the Ministry of the Interior has received all the papers associated with this leagal annual meeting. This was even before the not approved Streeing Group 2020 in Wibes, the management the year before, suddenly was approved a year too late – in fact as the liquidators that not reach their goal in 2020. And they are not a part of Wibes in 2021.
What a mess! … but this is a kind of picture of logistics before Spanish lawyers have been involved. And it belongs to the case that it is a matter of the fact that the Steering Group 2020 and the “cheerleaders” are not among the paying members of Wibes in 2021 with Berardi as President, now “is hanging in the air” – pending a reaction from the Spanish Ministry of the Interior, which is informed of everything that the questions above have put the spotlight on.
With these words, I again will mark my distance publicly. And I emphasize the word publicly because I have already done it internally in the association as a member and was tried to be blocked out of the communication, harassed, and more. The same style that President Berardi experienced. Classic behavior. Like an unsophisticated copy of the mentioned gorilla methods, I focused on at the beginning of this blog post. Nothing more, nothing less!
The last question is: What could be expected by officially exposing a type of rape of a president by putting out questions?
Who knows. But anyway, I look forward to this Wibes case coming to a conclusion, whatever it may be, which depends on the top management in Spain, The Minister of Interior, and where they have the capacity to focus – in a country which already has a heavy load of crime and corruption – and a history of democracy only from the 70ths.
Thanks for the opportunity to refresh a tiny – but important – part of our competence, a business experience that for the most have been gained in “the man’s world”; in the nuclear power industry, the IT and telecom business, and the steel industry. And in this case, relate it to the Spanish official society too, just in the middle of our focus area in Business Queens Network, in a country that differs a lot from the Scandinavian. Although, it is an EU and Schengen country.
This was a perfect exercise for Queens. And we got the possibility to spice it up with Spanish lawyers and take it all the way up to the Spanish Ministry of the Interior too.
As I see it from my perspective, everything about this case provides important knowledge that can be harvest. But an eventual response from Wibes paying members in 2020 and the 2020 Steering Group members are not welcomed – just annoying, even if it is about to clarify something. You, gays, have got your chances and either did not use them or misused them – several times, behind the scene, internally in Wibes, also concerning me. And when it has gone so far as it has – and it is a difficult exercise to be cleaned through media because it literally isn’t easy to be cleaned in the printing ink, even if it is doing digital today.
We are now waiting for the next step The Real Queens will take – related to Wibes and perhaps to Queens – and it is a bit problematic. Especially because insiders tell that the Steering Group 2020 keeps focusing on its liquidation goal and has started to pay back the membership fee for 2020 to Wibes members. Do you understand the expression: ” the untouchables – those that raised themselves above all?”
Okay, this case is now official like it is to be elected into an organization registered in The Minster of Interior in Spain, which is risky business according to be questioned officially. That is a parallel to what is possible when you own a business too. And not to speak of if you deliver lousy products in the marketplace as well. Every normal customer – when mistreated – and not get any understanding at all, just harassments, when making a relevant complaint within a defined warranty period, will expose that to the world.
To conclude this blog post: The Wibes case is in a pending status. Now it is an issue for professional law persons to handle. But Queens appreciates what we have got from this special experience. It is interesting work, as we said, in the area we focus on – and related it to the knowledge about polarization. Here focused on the history 2017-2019, the part before 2020, and the opposite part, this one in this blog post from 2020 up to now.
For the time being, while waiting to get this clarified from professionals, Queens will discuss if it is worth giving more energy to this type of mafia-style of creating solutions. Wibes will anyway and always be a major part of our common history as single persons and as a team.
Okay, this is it! Perhaps you will get more information about the Wibes case later. So, until next time, whatever we focus on: Live, learn, and love 😊
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* Translation from Swedish to English: The term business queens are widely used, but what does it require to be a business queen? When we started the JMS business group, we discussed this back and forth. For us, it means working women, high competence in their field, social competence, professionals, but also to tease and spur each other to results, correct each other’s crowns if they have ended up on the snag. To be able to give and take constructive criticism and act as a sounding board. What do business queens mean to you?
