Let’s assume the following …

Yesterday I wrote about our unspoken assumptions and how they influence our language and everything we do. Here’s a suggestion. Let’s assume the following about each other:

• Assume good will among everyone
• Assume everyone is to be trusted
• Assume everyone need to know everything relevant to the situation
• Assume everyone has the impulse to achieve
• Assume everyone is on equal level (no dominance-subordination hierarchy)
• Assume everyone is healthy enough (no psychopaths)
• Assume everyone can enjoy good teamwork, friendship, belonging
• Assume everyone is not actively hostile
• Assume everyone prefers to work at one’s highest level once in a wile
• Assume everyone is improvable
• Assume everyone prefers to feel important rather than unimportant
• Assume everyone prefers to feel needed rather than interchangeable
• Assume everyone prefers to feel successful rather than wasted
• Assume everyone prefers to fell proud rather than anonymous
• Assume everyone prefers to feel respected rather than disrespected
• Assume everyone dislikes fearing anyone
• Assume everyone prefers to be a prime mover rather than a passive helper
• Assume everyone has a tendency to improve things, put things right, make/do things better
• Assume everyone prefers to be a whole person and not a part, or thing, or “hand” (without brain)
• Assume everyone prefers to work rather than being idle
• Assume everyone prefers meaningful work to meaningless work
• Assume everyone prefers uniqueness as a person
• Assume everyone is courageous enough to go ahead in spite of fears (anxiety)
• Assume everyone can find out what they are best at by finding out what they like most
• Assume everyone likes to be justly and fairly appreciated (preferably in public)
• Assume everyone prefers responsibility to dependency (most of the time)
• Assume everyone gets more pleasure out of loving than hating
• Assume everyone prefers creating rather than destroying
• Assume everyone prefers being interested rather than bored
• Assume everyone prefers to identify with more and more of the world (or universe)
• Assume everyone prefers truth, beauty, justice, perfection
• Assume that the organization is healthy (whatever it means)

Reference:
This list is adapted from Maslow, Drucker, Likert, McGregor, Argyris, et al.