On Leading to the letter

Looking at the way some of us office-bearers conduct ourselves, it might be worth reflecting:

Let not the strive for robotic efficiency kill the human in the being.

Let not the general in the seva dal stifle the seva in the dal.

Let us rule for betterment, rather than for the rule itself.

Very often we follow rules to the letter that we forget the spirit of the sentence. Magnanimity of action based on pusillanimity of thought is self-defeating.