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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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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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