"Spirit"

Part Three of Insights on Leadership is Titled “Spirit.” The essays in this section of the book share the authors insights on the nature of spirit and servant-leadership. Robert Greenleaf’s thoughts on spirit from “On Becoming a Servant-Leader” leads off this section of the book.

“I do not want to define or explain spirit. There is, in my theology, a mystery before which I simply stand in awe. At the threshold of the mystery, I ask no questions and seek no explanations. I simply bow before the mystery, and what it wants to say to me comes as gently as doves as I achieve the quiet. Spirit is behind the threshold of the mystery. I don’t know what it is, even though occasionally I get intimations about it, but I do have a belief about what it does. When a leader has spirit, it builds trust not only between leader and follower but also between followers”.

And that is a good theology indeed.