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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.
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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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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Conflict is resolved not through compromise, but through invention.
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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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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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Democracy must be conceived as a process, not a goal.
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Democracy is self-creating coherence.
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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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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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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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In the small group then is where we shall find the inner meaning of democracy, its very heart and core.
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