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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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In the small group then is where we shall find the inner meaning of democracy, its very heart and core.
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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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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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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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