Assume Miscommunication Not Malice
Some lessons from
JerryWeinberg
's BecomingaTechnicalLeader
?
No matter how strange it may look, most people are actually trying to be helpful.
Attempts to help are often misinterpreted as attempts to interfere.
Wanting to help people may be a noble motive, but that doesn't make it any easier.
See also
AssumeGoodFaith
,
HanlonsRazor
,
AssumeIgnoranceNotMalice
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