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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.
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 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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The divorce of our so-called spiritual life from our daily activities is a fatal dualism.
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The unifying of opposites is the eternal process.
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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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Fear of difference is fear of life itself.
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Democracy is self-creating coherence.
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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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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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It is of equal importance with the discovery of facts to know what to do with them.
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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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Idealism and realism meet in the actual.
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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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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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In the small group then is where we shall find the inner meaning of democracy, its very heart and core.
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Democracy must be conceived as a process, not a goal.
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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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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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