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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.
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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Massachusetts
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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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The unifying of opposites is the eternal process.
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The ablest administrators do not merely draw logical conclusions from the array of facts of the past which their expert assistants bring to them, they have a vision of the future.
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Fear of difference is fear of life itself.
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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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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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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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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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It is of equal importance with the discovery of facts to know what to do with them.
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The divorce of our so-called spiritual life from our daily activities is a fatal dualism.
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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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Power-over is resorted to time without number because people will not wait for the slower process of education.
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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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Leadership is not defined by the exercise of power but by the capacity to increase the sense of power among those led. The most essential work of the leader is to create more leaders.
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the best leaders try to train their followers themselves to become leaders. ... they wish to be leaders of leaders.
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Leader and followers are both following the invisible leader-the common purpose.
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The state accumulates moral power only through the spiritual activity of their citizens.
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