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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.
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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Conflict is resolved not through compromise, but through invention.
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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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One of the greatest values of controversy is its revealing nature. The real issues at stake come into the open and have the possibility of being reconciled.
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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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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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In crowds we have unison, in groups harmony. We want the single voice but not the single note that is the secret of the group.
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the best leaders try to train their followers themselves to become leaders. ... they wish to be leaders of leaders.
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The ignoring of differences is the most fatal mistake in politics or industry or international life: every difference that is swept up into a bigger conception feeds and enriches society every difference which is ignored feeds on society and eventually corrupts it.
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The unifying of opposites is the eternal process.
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Leader and followers are both following the invisible leader-the common purpose.
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The best leader does not ask people to serve him, but the common end. The best leader has not followers, but men and women working with him.
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Leadership is not defined by the exercise of power but by the capacity to increase the sense of power among those led. The most essential work of the leader is to create more leaders.
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While leadership depends on depth of conviction and the power coming therefrom, there must also be the ability to share that conviction with others.
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Democracy is self-creating coherence.
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Fear of difference is fear of life itself.
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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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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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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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