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... orders come from the work, not work from the orders.

Mary Parker Follett

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Mary Parker Follett
Age: 65 †
Born: 1868
Born: September 3
Died: 1933
Died: December 18
Businessperson
Philosopher
Political Scientist
Social Worker
Sociologist
Writer
Quincy
Massachusetts
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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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The state accumulates moral power only through the spiritual activity of their citizens.
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Conflict is resolved not through compromise, but through invention.
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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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Democracy is self-creating coherence.
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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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Fear of difference is fear of life itself.
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All polishing is done by friction.
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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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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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Management is the art of getting things done through people.
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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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The divorce of our so-called spiritual life from our daily activities is a fatal dualism.
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In crowds we have unison, in groups harmony. We want the single voice but not the single note that is the secret of the group.
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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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Democracy must be conceived as a process, not a goal.
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There is no such thing as vicarious experience.
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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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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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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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