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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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The state accumulates moral power only through the spiritual activity of their citizens.
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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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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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It is of equal importance with the discovery of facts to know what to do with them.
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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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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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Fear of difference is fear of life itself.
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Leader and followers are both following the invisible leader-the common purpose.
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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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That is always our problem, not how to get control of people, but how all together we can get control of a situation.
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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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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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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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Democracy is self-creating coherence.
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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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Idealism and realism meet in the actual.
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There is no such thing as vicarious experience.
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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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Power-over is resorted to time without number because people will not wait for the slower process of education.
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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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