Tom Morris, philosopher/writer, in 2009 mapped the financial crisis and auto-making industry problems into the fundamental dimensions of life:

• Truth ← intellectual
• Beauty ← æsthetic
• Goodness ← moral
• Unity ← spiritual

In his words, excerpted from an essay "If Aristotle Ran General Motors":

There are four basic ideas discovered by the great thinkers of the past that undergird any form of human excellence and flourishing, whether in a company like General Motors, or in the country at large. In our families, friendships, neighborhoods, civic organizations, governmental institutions, and business relationships of all kinds, four profound and yet simple foundations — universally accessible, pervasively applicable, and incredibly effective — alone make possible the achievement and reliable propagation of excellence over the long term. They are: truth, beauty, goodness, and unity. These are the four foundations of greatness in any interpersonal context, and they are ignored at our tremendous peril, and always with predictably disastrous results.

No organization can do well in a sustainable way without an abundance of truth flowing freely throughout it. Great businesses rise or fall on how well they adjust and adapt to the realities in which they exist. Executives need to be like intelligence officers, detectives of information, relentless questioners of the world and their markets. ...

And what of beauty? When I was a boy, growing up in the 50s and 60s, the arrival of the new cars each year was a matter for widespread admiration and celebration. ... And there is beauty required in process as well as in results. Empowering employees to create a beautiful solution to a product problem or a client need can invigorate and drive performance. ...

Goodness is important in many forms. An automaker should care about its customers, and design cars for us that are good in many ways — safe, reliable, inexpensive to operate, and well designed to meet our needs. These products should also be good for the environment in which they're used. And the treatment of employees at every level, as well as of all customers — both before, during, and after a sale — should be ethical, moral, and surpassingly good beyond the requirements of the law and the standards we tolerate.

Unity is the last and most comprehensive foundation. Truth, beauty, and goodness well deployed create unity. Without their many benefits, people are disconnected and alienated from their work. ...

From the time we wake up in the morning, until the moment we fall asleep at night, we have four dimensions to our experience of the world. We have an intellectual dimension to our experience that needs truth. We have an aesthetic dimension that needs beauty. We have a moral dimension that needs goodness. And we all have a broadly spiritual dimension that craves a sense of harmony, connectedness, or unity. ...

(cf http://www.tomvmorris.com/, Underappreciated Ideas (1999-07-06), Portrait of the Artist (2007-02-08), Find the Beauty (2011-04-03), Mantra - Mindfulness, Nonattachment, Oneness (2017-01-25), Mantra - Be Meta, Be Open, Be Love (2018-11-11), ...) - ^z - 2018-11-30