The book The Seven Deadly Sins of Business: Freeing the Corporate Mind from Doom-Loop Thinking is about seven mistakes that businesses often make that lead to financial loss or even bankruptcy. The author, Eileen C. Shapiro, details how these mistakes are often made because on the surface they appear to be good practices. However, they have harmful consequences that, if not discovered in time, can lead to misfortune for a business.
This book is geared towards managers because the “sins” involve decision making at higher levels. However, they can be applied to workers at all levels of an organization because faulty decisions can be made at personal as well as business-wide levels. The “seven deadly sins” also have great significance to entrepreneurs because someone starting and running their own business may not have the luxury of coworkers or bosses that can critique the decisions they make.
Famous quotes containing the words deadly, sins and/or business:
“Chastity prays for me, piety sings,
Innocence sweetens my last black breath,
Modesty hides my thighs in her wings,
And all the deadly virtues plague my death!”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales. Better the occasional faults of a Government that lives in a spirit of charity than the constant omission of a Government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.”
—Emma Goldman (1869–1940)