The Seven Deadly SinsRichard Huntington

The Seven Deadly SinsOf Planning

GluttonyOver indulgence to the point of extravagance or waste

Don’t indulge in the planning echo chamber

Build your own approach from evidence and experience

EnvyWhen someone lacks another’s superior quality, achievement or possessions and

desires them

Resist your envy for people that ‘make things’

Making meaning is far more powerful than simply making

things

LustThe feeling of intense desire for sex,

power and expensive things

Making the work great sounds sexy but its not your job

Your job is to make sure the work solves the problem

GreedAn inordinate or insatiable

longing for wealth, status and power

Don’t become a servant of your client’s greed and wishful thinking

Your real client is your customer not the people that pay you

SlothA habitual disinclination to exertion

You are fucking good, perhaps you needn’t work so hard

Anxiety maketh the planner

WrathIntense response to a perceived provocation, hurt or threat

You are rightly angry about inclusivity and diversity

Improving the inclusivity and diversity of our work is on you

PrideFoolish or irrationally corrupt sense of

one’s personal value

You think that we have a god given right to exist

Changing reality is the only fit job for a planner