Believe the Best

In the absence of evidence always believe the best in people.

Don't always assume that someone is going to do bad or has ill intent.  In many circumstances when something goes wrong it wasn't because the intent was bad but the execution or the application was poor.

We judge ourselves on intent but we judge others by what we see, the behaviors.  If we can figure out what the other person's intent was - "I wanted to do good.  I wanted to do well but I executed poorly" then we have a great chance to keep moving everything in a positive direction.

If we can believe the best then we have the opportunity to coach, teach and correct the execution and behavior while keeping the intent positive.

Just something to think about...