{"id":67487,"date":"2019-06-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fondazionepirelli.org\/uncategorized\/chi-servire\/"},"modified":"2019-09-11T07:57:29","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T07:57:29","slug":"who-to-serve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fondazionepirelli.org\/en\/corporate-culture\/who-to-serve\/","title":{"rendered":"Who to serve?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A speech by the Bishop of Milan offers an interesting take on business culture<\/em><\/p>

It is important to ask ourselves questions about the meaning of the things we do. Perhaps it is even more important to ask ourselves what the real goals of our actions are. These are questions that apply to everyone. Including entrepreneurs and managers involved with production systems that can impact significantly on the surrounding environment and on the people that help them achieve their production targets.<\/p>\n

\u201cContribution to a dialogue. Economics, work, social justice\u201d, written and read by Mario Enrico Delpini, Bishop of Milan, at the LIUC during the celebrations to mark the 150th anniversary of the death of Carlo Cattaneo, provides lots of interesting new perspective on these questions.<\/p>\n

Delpini begins his discourse by considering how the Scriptures can help us to interpret the crisis facing us today. Beginning with one of the most famous passages from the Gospels (\u201cYou cannot serve God and money\u201d), the Bishop outlines the risks of idolising wealth. \u201cThe idolatry of wealth\/profit\/efficiency \u2013 says Delpini -, leads us to pursue the foolish illusion that economic wellbeing can save lives and guarantee happiness, ignoring the precariousness of these idols (\u2026)\u201d. He continues: \u201cThe idolatry of wealth\/profit\/efficiency\/accumulation depersonalises people and becomes systemic\u201d. All of this while recognising that it is \u201clegitimate for every businessman, teacher and student to ask themselves who they want to serve, the real God or the money god, because sometimes it is as if two types of god existed: one on Sundays and holidays, and the other from Monday to Friday\u201d. Naturally, the danger is that \u201cprofit becomes a kind of illusory absolute, created by foolish men that lose all sense of proportion\u201d.<\/p>\n

With all this in mind, Delpini comes to the conclusion that a large part of the economic and production system needs to \u201cchange its tune\u201d. A complex and difficult process but one that is possible if we begin from the premise that \u201clooking after \u2018human capital\u2019 is a positive practice adopted by farsighted businesses\u201d, an approach whose cornerstones include the sharing of values, the growth of people and the transfer of knowledge and these same values.<\/p>\n

Although Delpini\u2019s view of business culture comes from a strictly Christian perspective, his considerations will also find common ground with those that have different visions of the world. And if nothing else, the words of the Bishop of Milan make interesting reading for us all.<\/p>

Contribution to a dialogue. \u201cEconomics, work, social justice\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Mario Enrico Delpini, Bishop of Milan,<\/p>\n

LIUC, Castellanza, 14 May 2019<\/p>\n

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