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Building Community: The Human Side of Work.
Group relationships satisfy social needs for belonging. Scott Peck explains that the members of a group who have achieved genuine community take pleasure—even delight—in knowing they have done something together, that they have collectively discovered something of great value, that they are "onto something" as a family There is nothing competitive about the spirit of true community. To the contrary; a group possessed by a spirit of internal competitiveness—member against member—is, by definition, not a community. Competitiveness breeds exclusivity; genuine community is inclusive, meeting a basic need for belonging. (p. 285)