Maslow:
Maslow’s Eupsychian Assumptions
versioned after Maslow
1. assume everyone is to be trusted
2. assume everyone is to be informed of as many facts and truths as possible
3. assume in all your people the impulse to achieve
4. assume that there is no dominance-subordination hierarchy in the jungle sense or authoritarian sense
5. assume that everyone will have the same ultimate managerial objectives and will identify with them no matter where they are in the organization or hierarchy
6. assume goodwill among all the members of the organization rather than rilvalry or jealousy
7. synergy is also assumed
8. assume the organization is healthy enough, whatever this means
9. assume the Ability to Admire -to be objective and detached- in a special sense, i.e. to be purely objective not only about other people’s capacities and skills, but also about one’s own
10. assume that people in eupsychian organizations are not fixated at the safety-need level
11. assume an active trend to self-actualization
12. assume that everyone can enjoy good teamwork, friendship, good group spirit, group love
13. assume hostility to be primarily reactive rather than character-based
14. assume that people can take it, thay they are tough, stronger than most people give them credit for
15. assume that people are improvable
16. assume that everyone prefers to feel important, needed, useful, successful, proud, respected
17. assume that everyone prefers to love and respect his or her leaders
18. assume that everyone dislikes fearing anyone
19. assume everyone prefers to be a prime mover
20. assume a tendency to improve things, to put things right, make things better
21. assume that growth occurs through delight and through boredom
22. assume preference for being a whole person and not a part, a tool, or ‘hand’
23. assume the preference for working rather than being idle
24. assume all human beings prefer meaningful work to meaningless work
25. assume the preference for personhood, uniqueness as a person
26. assume the person is courageous enough to participate in growth processes
27. assume each is able to identify and empathize with other human beings
28. assume the wisdom and efficacy of self-choice
29. assume everyone likes to be justly and fairly appreciated
30. assume the defense and growth dialectic for all the positive trends listed above
31. assume everyone prefers reponsibility to dependency
32. assume people will get more pleasure out of loving rather than hating
33. assume fairly well-developed people would rather create than destroy
34. assume fairly well-developed people would rather be interested than bored
35. assume a preference or tendency to identify with more and more of the world … moving toward peak experience
36. assume we shall have to work out the assumption of the meta-motives, metapathologies, of the yearning for truth, beauty, justice, perfection, and so on.
If, during the long course of ages and under varying conditions of life, organic beings vary at all in the several parts of their organization, and I think this cannot be disputed; if there be, owing to the high geometric powers of increase of each species, at some age, season or year, a severe struggle for life, and this certainly cannot be disputed; then, considering the infinite complexity of the relations of all organic beings to each other and to their conditions of existence, causing an infinite variety in structure, constitution, and habits, to be advantageous to them, I think it would be a most extraordinary fact if no variation ever had occurred useful to each being’s own welfare, in the same way as so many variations have occurred useful to man. But if variations useful to any organic being do occur, assuredly individuals thus characterized will have the best chance of being preserved in the struggle for life; and from the strong principle of inheritance they will tend to produce offspring similarly characterized. This principle of preservation, I have called, for the sake of brevity, Natural Selection. [Charles Darwin (1859) On the Origin of Species]
“It is essential to such a government, that it be derived from the great body of the society, not from an inconsiderable proportion, or a favored class of it; otherwise a handful of tyrannical nobles, exercising their oppressions by a delegation of their powers, might aspire to the rank of republicans, and claim for their government the honorable title of republic.” James Madison
All the property that is necessary to a Man, for the Conservation of the Individual and the Propagation of the Species, is his natural Right, which none can justly deprive him of: But all Property superfluous to such purposes is the Property of the Publick, who, by their Laws, have created it, and who may therefore by other laws dispose of it, whenever the Welfare of the Publick shall demand such Disposition. He that does not like civil Society on these Terms, let him retire and live among Savages. He can have no right to the benefits of Society, who will not pay his Club towards the Support of it. -Benjamin Franklin
Lighten the darkness of the Creator. Ah! We can do this.