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    How to Fix the USA: Understanding Groups
    How to Fix the USA: Understanding Groups
    How to Fix the USA: Understanding Groups
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    How to Fix the USA: Understanding Groups

    By William Dietrich

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    Groups form for better or worse.

    By understanding how groups form, their purpose and their single-mindedness, you can help save our country.

    Some groups are positive, build people up and create unity among our citizens. Others create hate, discontent, and chaos. Once you understand how groups form and how to identify the types of members every group contains, you can choose to help one and destroy another.

    Use this information wisely, and our country might just survive.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChris Winder Books
    Release dateNov 28, 2018
    ISBN9781386622840
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      How to Fix the USA - William Dietrich

      How To Fix the USA:

      Understanding Groups

      ––––––––

      William Dietrich

      Copyright © 2016 William Dietrich

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.

      Cover art by Jonathan Brashear.  Used with permission.

      https://www.facebook.com/jdavidbrashear

      Table of Contents

      Preface

      Chapter 1: Introduction

      The Academy

      The Objective

      The Power

      The Difference

      Action Step 1

      Chapter 2: The Source of Power

      The Knowledge

      The Misuse

      The Warning

      Chapter 3: The Power of Groups

      The Sum

      The Positive

      The Negative

      Action Step 2

      Chapter 4: How Groups Form

      The Forming

      The Storming

      The Norming

      The Performing

      The Trust

      Chapter 5: Norms

      The Explanation

      The Creation

      The Change

      Chapter 6: Group Roles

      The Diamond

      The Crowds

      The Leader

      The Lieutenant

      The Con

      The Isolate

      The Dyad

      The Scapegoat

      Action Step 3

      Chapter 7: Group Ethos

      The Phenomenon

      The Ethos

      Action Step 4

      Chapter 8: How to Support Positive Groups

      The Support

      Chapter 9: How to Stop Negative Groups

      The Education

      The Questions

      The Other

      The Risk

      Conclusion

      Preface

      As described in my book How to Fix the USA: Understanding Needs, every single person has a basic need to feel as though they belong to a group and are loved.  Those who start groups not only understand this need in others, they exploit this need.

      Exploit might seem like a harsh word, but if the need is exploited for something that is good for the exploited, good for the community and good for the country as a whole, then it just becomes a tool.  Like any tool, exploitation can be used for good or evil.

      The goal of this book is to educate readers on the basics of group dynamics, how groups form, how to identify positive groups and negative groups and how to support the good and break the bad.  Once the readers has this information and understanding, they can, of course, do with it as they wish.  However, it is my hope and goal that readers do nothing but good with it and therefore make these United States a better place by fixing the problem of negative groups.

      Throughout this book I will be using the pronoun he instead of he or she or he and she.  This is not due to some deep-seeded desire to blame men for everything, not is it based on misogynistic tendencies.  Instead, I will be referring to he as a means of keeping this book clear and free of unnecessary words.  Also, I believe I can safely assume that the ladies who read this book may be glad I didn’t switch back and forth between he and she as I describe some very bad behavior that some people do.  If this offends you, you may send your hate-mail to the address listed on the copyright page.

      Furthermore, I will not refer to black people as African Americans because I sincerely doubt there are enough people in the United States who hold dual citizenship with this country and any African nations to offend.  This is the same reason I will not be referring to white people as European Americans.  If you are one of the very few Americans who do hold such citizenship, you have my apology.  If not, and you are offended, please send your hate-mail to the address listed

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