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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 divorce of our so-called spiritual life from our daily activities is a fatal dualism.
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Fear of difference is fear of life itself.
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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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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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The unifying of opposites is the eternal process.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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