This essay is a meditation on the idea of power in contemporary writing about management. It finds power puzzling because people think about it in natural terms of forces and resistances rather than in moral terms of authority. Authority derives ultimately from the Divine, from the author of human being and all creation. To exercise power with authority is to serve the Divine in humility by serving the human person made in the Divine image. To lead is to serve. A few of the many implications of a theological concept of power for management are considered.
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