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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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Quincy
Massachusetts
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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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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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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 divorce of our so-called spiritual life from our daily activities is a fatal dualism.
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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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Democracy must be conceived as a process, not a goal.
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Leader and followers are both following the invisible leader-the common purpose.
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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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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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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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There is no such thing as vicarious experience.
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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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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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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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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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Democracy is self-creating coherence.
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... orders come from the work, not work from the orders.
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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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