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That is always our problem, not how to get control of people, but how all together we can get control of a situation.
Mary Parker Follett
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Mary Parker Follett
Age: 65 †
Born: 1868
Born: September 3
Died: 1933
Died: December 18
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Quincy
Massachusetts
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I do not think that we have psychological and ethical and economic problems. We have human problems, with psychological, ethical and economical aspects, and as many others as you like.
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The divorce of our so-called spiritual life from our daily activities is a fatal dualism.
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We should never allow ourselves to be bullied by an either-or. There is often the possibility of something better than either of these two alternatives.
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Majority rule rests on numbers democracy rests on the well-grounded assumption that society is neither a collection of units nor an organism but a network of human relations.
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Democracy is self-creating coherence.
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The state accumulates moral power only through the spiritual activity of their citizens.
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The most successful leader of all is the one who sees another picture not yet actualized. He sees the things which are not yet there... Above all, he should make his co-workers see that it is not his purpose which is to be achieved, but a common purpose, born of the desires and the activities of the group.
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... orders come from the work, not work from the orders.
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An order then should always be given not as a personal matter, not because the man giving it wants the thing done, but because it is the demand of the situation. And an order of this kind carries weight because it is the demand of the situation.
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In the small group then is where we shall find the inner meaning of democracy, its very heart and core.
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Experience may be hard but we claim its gifts because they are real, even though our feet bleed on its stones.
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Power-over is resorted to time without number because people will not wait for the slower process of education.
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Management is the art of getting things done through people.
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It is possible to conceive conflict as not necessarily a wasteful outbreak of incompatibilities, but a normal process by which socially valuable differences register themselves for the enrichment of all concerned.
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Leader and followers are both following the invisible leader-the common purpose.
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Concepts can never be presented to me merely, they must be knitted into the structure of my being, and this can only be done through my own activity.
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Idealism and realism meet in the actual.
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Law should seek far more than mere reconciliation it should be one of the great creative forces of our social life.
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The unifying of opposites is the eternal process.
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I am convinced that any feeling of exaltation because we have people under us should be conquered, for I am sure that if we enjoy being over people, there will be something in our manner which will make them dislike being under us.
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