International Journal of Servant-Leadership
Abstract
Throughout his spiritual autobiography, Ignatius of Loyola humbly refers to himself as the pilgrim. Ironically, it is a group of pilgrims in Herman Hesse s The Journey to The East that inspires Robert Greenleaf s understanding of the servant as leader. In the late 16th century, Ignatius witnessed and was a product of the turbulent European Reformation the reason infusion of the Renaissance, and the expansive globalization of the Age of Exploration. Greenleaf, an executive for AT&T throughout the mid-twentieth century, witnessed the American countercultural movement of the nineteen sixties and the institutionalization of the American workplace. Both men provided a concrete vision to promulgate and encourage human flourishing in the midst of change. Ignatius, the founder of the Society of Jesus (or the Jesuits), crafted a concrete spiritual methodology to allow practitioners to search for God in all things. Greenleaf promoted the notion of the servant as leader as a panacea to the corrosive domineering forms of leadership he experienced at the time.
Recommended Citation
Lavin, Luke
(2018)
"Discerning Service: The Leader as Servant and the Ignatian Tradition,"
International Journal of Servant-Leadership: Vol. 12, Article 10.
DOI: 10.33972/ijsl.74
Available at:
https://repository.gonzaga.edu/ijsl/vol12/iss1/10
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