One of the things that irks me about some Amway leaders is their blatant revisionist history. They never take responsibility for anything except for the tiny amounts of success that seeps through their system. Real problems and issues are ignored, or leaders pretend they never happened, or they simply rewrite history to fit their goals and agendas. And to make matters worse, these same leaders teach their downline to accept personal responsibility for their failures, even when downline faithfully purchase and apply teaching from tools such as voicemail, standing orders and functions.
One good example was the complete lie that nobody made profits from tools. Then when caught red handed, leaders now admit that they make profits from tools but nobody seems to know exactly how much, or how you actually qualify to receive compensation. And there was no backlash for having told such blatant lies.
Leaders in my former LOS, WWDB used to teach how so few IBO couples ever gets divorced. I heard that Amway couples had a 2% divorce rate as compared to the rest of the world where over 50% of couples get divorced. Yet, WWDB uses their own revisionist history. One good example is Howie Danzik, who WWDB says built his business as a single and later married Theresa Tsuruda. I guess I must have imagined the emerald function I attended where Howie and his wife at the time, Susan, said they built the business together. There are other examples of this, but what amazes me is how the downlines seem to ignore these facts.
Another recent example was how an IBO insisted that a prominent triple diamond in WWBD did not have homes foreclosed or was not involved in bankruptcy proceedings, even when there are numerous public documents providing ample evidence that it is true. It's mind boggling. If Tiger Woods were a diamond and denied that he had any affairs, I bet his downline would believe him as well. Scary.
I just have to wonder when IBOs, who dedicate themselves to various systems, will ever hold these leaders accountable for their actions. If you buy a television and it didn't work, you would ask for a refund. Well, if those standing orders and functions contain vital information and you apply them and they don't work, you should ask for a refund as well. People should also ask upline the tough questions. If someone gives you bad advice, they should be held accountable. If someone tells you buying a home with a mortgage is stupid because of the interest you will pay, then you find out they have "interest only loans", that makes them a hypocrite and their advice should be questioned.
Don't allow these well compensated leaders to simply rewrite history to ignore their mistakes and trangresions.
Part of the core essence of a cult is the notion that "facts" are purely relative, and can be changed if you think hard enough about them. All you have to do is say what you WANT to be true, and keep on saying it louder and more insistently. Then it will be true. It's pure mythological thinking.
ReplyDeleteDid Howie Danzik formerly have a wife named Susan? Was it she who helped him build his Amway business? No, it "didn't happen." Howie did it himself and then married a woman named Theresa. Howie was NEVER married to a girl named Susan!
That's the way Amway freaks think -- pure self-delusion and fantasy. I call it "Tinkerbelle thinking," based on the Disney film where the dead fairy Tinkerbelle comes back to life, but only if everybody in the audience wishes hard enough for it.
You know what I was thinking, I follow a Facebook group of "Sounds like an mlm but ok" and they post about their friends/family/people they know who are always posting about their respective mlm's. So, in order for a WWG person to get about 900+ folks to become Diamond, at what point does one run out of the population? If all of these mlm's are trying to recruit and the turn over is a huge one, that means those who left the other mlm's will most likely not join another one. There will come a time that the lowest ambot (or other low mlm recruit) will speak to Anti mlm folks or folks that are in mlm's already and won't be able to recruit either way.
ReplyDeleteThere will always have to be bottom level recruits to keep their Diamond level running at all times to buy the products.
The organization we were a part of the Diamond had a single person who was their first leg as a platinum and is now a ruby. According to the Amway brochure, it says the average ruby earns 120,000 or more a year plus we know they get money from the tools. Yet, this person hasn't retired. Still working even though it's been about 2 years. So if one can't "retire" at Ruby, then when