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the best leaders try to train their followers themselves to become leaders. ... they wish to be leaders of 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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In the small group then is where we shall find the inner meaning of democracy, its very heart and core.
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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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It is possible to conceive conflict as not necessarily a wasteful outbreak of incompatibilities, but a normal process by which socially valuable differences register themselves for the enrichment of all concerned.
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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 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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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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Democracy must be conceived as a process, not a goal.
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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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... orders come from the work, not work from the orders.
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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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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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Leader and followers are both following the invisible leader-the common purpose.
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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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Idealism and realism meet in the actual.
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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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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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It is of equal importance with the discovery of facts to know what to do with them.
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The state accumulates moral power only through the spiritual activity of their citizens.
Mary Parker Follett
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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