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There is no such thing as vicarious experience.

Mary Parker Follett

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Mary Parker Follett
Age: 65 †
Born: 1868
Born: September 3
Died: 1933
Died: December 18
Businessperson
Philosopher
Political Scientist
Social Worker
Sociologist
Writer
Quincy
Massachusetts
Mary Parker
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The ablest administrators do not merely draw logical conclusions from the array of facts of the past which their expert assistants bring to them, they have a vision of the future.
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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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Leader and followers are both following the invisible leader-the common purpose.
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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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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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In the small group then is where we shall find the inner meaning of democracy, its very heart and core.
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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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When leadership rises to genius it has the power of transforming, of transforming experience into power. And that is what experience is for, to be made into power. The great leader creates as well as directs power.
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Fear of difference is fear of life itself.
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And the most successful leader of all is one who sees another picture not yet actualized. He sees the things which belong in his present picture but which are not yet there.
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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 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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Conflict is resolved not through compromise, but through invention.
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Democracy must be conceived as a process, not a goal.
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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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The unifying of opposites is the eternal process.
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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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We should never allow ourselves to be bullied by an either-or. There is often the possibility of something better than either of these two alternatives.
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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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