chapter 7Stages Along Spirit’s Way

PART II TRACED THE SPIRIT of a place as it moved from one way of being to a new one, the adaptive process. In and out of chrysalis, so to speak, through the cycle of birth and death. It is now time to consider the several forms that Spirit assumes along the way (caterpillars to butterflies as it were), thereby laying the groundwork for suggesting where we are, and where we might be headed.93

Describing the forms of Spirit, particularly the Spirit of an organization, may seem a rather new undertaking. But conversations about Spirit have been going on forever, or so it seems. And some of them have gotten fairly detailed and precise. Most of these conversations have revolved around the Spirit of the individual, ...

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