Servant leadership

How to describe the power of Joseph Retinger? Simply put it can be described as servant leadership.

What is servant leadership? Let's have a look in Wikipedia:

"Servant-leadership emphasizes the leader's role as steward of the resources (human, financial and otherwise) provided by the organization . It encourages leaders to serve others while staying focused on achieving results in line with the organization's values and integrity."

Leaders that serve others while staying focused on achieving results.....

Okay, Retinger was clearly focused on a result and I am sure that when he died in 1960 he knew that the work was not done. But being a serving leader he must have known that others were going to continue where he had to stop.

I did not invent Servant Leadership, Robert Greenleaf seems to have invented it. In 1958. But he was honest and said that he got the idea based on a work from Hermann Hesse: Journey to the East, published in 1932.

Actually, I believe that servant leadership is the type of leadership Ignatius had in mind. Is it a coincidence that searching with Google for the combination of jezuits and servant leadership gives about 9.500 hits? And how about this link to a dutch Jesuit website: 23 Jesuit scholars discussing about servant leadership. And, translated back from dutch to english, the quotes from their General Adolfo Nicolàs (the black pope) during that meeting: “ Good leadership is in the love for being a servant" and "When Jezuits succeed in good cooperation, succes always is guaranteed". Adolfo Nicolás is a new general. The previous general was dutch. Are we really that powerful?

Joseph Retinger definitely was a brilliant student and as a devout catholic he could not have said it better. But he did better: he served and lead the world into a new era: Europe was born.

His mission did not stop with the birth of Europe. The Bilderberg reunion was organised to find a way to change the negative image that was rising in Europe on the USA.

I am puzzled again. Retinger was a Polish Patriot. The freedom of his country was prevalent and yet he goes further, significantly further. Might this have been caused by the bond between Poland and the Soviet Union?