Revisiting the “seven social sins”:
❌ Wealth without work.
❌ Pleasure without conscience.
❌ Knowledge without character.
❌ Commerce without morality.
❌ Science without humanity.
❌ Religion without sacrifice.
❌ Politics without principle.
If we change “religion” to “values,” then this could also be a “seven organizational sins” list.
What do you think?
Are organizations sufficiently “social” that these apply?
What changes, if any, would you make to fit today’s organizations?
Origin: the list became widely known after being published by Gandhi in his newspaper in October 1925. The list had been sent to him (with “worship” instead of “religion”) after a sermon by Frederick Lewis Donaldson at Westminster Abbey in London earlier that year.
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