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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.
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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Massachusetts
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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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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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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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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 foreman today does not merely deal with trouble, he forestalls trouble. In fact, we don't think much of a foreman who is always dealing with trouble we feel that if he is doing his job properly, there won't be so much trouble.
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Idealism and realism meet in the actual.
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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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the best leaders try to train their followers themselves to become leaders. ... they wish to be leaders of leaders.
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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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