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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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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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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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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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Fear of difference is fear of life itself.
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Idealism and realism meet in the actual.
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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 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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It is of equal importance with the discovery of facts to know what to do with them.
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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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The divorce of our so-called spiritual life from our daily activities is a fatal dualism.
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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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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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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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The unifying of opposites is the eternal process.
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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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Leader and followers are both following the invisible leader-the common purpose.
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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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