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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
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Quincy
Massachusetts
Mary Parker
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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 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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Conflict is resolved not through compromise, but through invention.
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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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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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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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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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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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It is of equal importance with the discovery of facts to know what to do with them.
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Democracy must be conceived as a process, not a goal.
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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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There is no such thing as vicarious experience.
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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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The unifying of opposites is the eternal process.
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Democracy is self-creating coherence.
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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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All polishing is done by friction.
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The ignoring of differences is the most fatal mistake in politics or industry or international life: every difference that is swept up into a bigger conception feeds and enriches society every difference which is ignored feeds on society and eventually corrupts it.
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Idealism and realism meet in the actual.
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Fear of difference is fear of life itself.
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