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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.
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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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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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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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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Democracy is self-creating coherence.
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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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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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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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Concepts can never be presented to me merely, they must be knitted into the structure of my being, and this can only be done through my own activity.
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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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Democracy must be conceived as a process, not a goal.
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... orders come from the work, not work from the orders.
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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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Fear of difference is fear of life itself.
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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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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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Most people are not for or against anything the first object of getting people together is to make them respond somehow, to overcome inertia.
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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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