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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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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.
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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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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 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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The divorce of our so-called spiritual life from our daily activities is a fatal dualism.
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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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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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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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Fear of difference is fear of life itself.
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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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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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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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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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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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The unifying of opposites is the eternal process.
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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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Power-over is resorted to time without number because people will not wait for the slower process of education.
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... orders come from the work, not work from the orders.
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There is no such thing as vicarious experience.
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Idealism and realism meet in the actual.
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