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The insight to see possible new paths, the courage to try them, the judgment to measure results - these are the qualities of a leader. -- Mary Parker Follett
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Power-over is resorted to time without number because people will not wait for the slower process of education. -- Mary Parker Follett
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We can never catch up with life ... we shall always be eating the soft part of our melting ice and meanwhile the nice hard part is rapidly melting too. -- Mary Parker Follett
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The state accumulates moral power only through the spiritual activity of their citizens. -- Mary Parker Follett
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It is possible to conceive conflict as not necessarily a wasteful outbreak of incompatibilities, but a normal process by which socially valuable differences register themselves for the enrichment of all concerned. -- Mary Parker Follett
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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. -- Mary Parker Follett
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Now that we are recognizing more fully the value of the individual, now that management is defining more exactly the function of each, many are coming to regard the leader as the man who can energize his group, who knows how to encourage initiative, how to draw from all what each has to give. -- Mary Parker Follett
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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. -- Mary Parker Follett
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There is a pernicious tendency to make the opinions of the expert prevail by crowd methods, to rush the people instead of educating them. -- Mary Parker Follett
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I wish we could understand the word expert as expressing an attitude of mind which we can all acquire rather than the collecting of information by a special caste ... Many of us are calling for experts because, acutely conscious of the mess we are in, we want someone to pull us out. -- Mary Parker Follett
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Management is the art of getting things done through people. -- Mary Parker Follett
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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. -- Mary Parker Follett
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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. -- Mary Parker Follett
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Give your difference, welcome my difference, unify all difference in the larger whole - such is the law of growth. The unifying of difference is the eternal process of life - the creative synthesis, the highest act of creation, the at-onement. -- Mary Parker Follett
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Many people tell me what I ought to do and just how I ought to do it, but Few have made me want to do something.. -- Mary Parker Follett
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When leadership rises to genius it has the power of transforming, of transforming experience into power. And that is what experience is for, to be made into power. The great leader creates as well as directs power. -- Mary Parker Follett
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The unifying of opposites is the eternal process. -- Mary Parker Follett
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There is no such thing as vicarious experience. -- Mary Parker Follett
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Idealism and realism meet in the actual. -- Mary Parker Follett
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Democracy is self-creating coherence. -- Mary Parker Follett
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Orders come from the work, not work from the orders. -- Mary Parker Follett
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We have thought of peace as the passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not the most strenuous life. It is a kind of rest-cure compared to the task of reconciling our differences. -- Mary Parker Follett
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All polishing is done by friction, -- Mary Parker Follett
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Responsiblity is the great developer of men. -- Mary Parker Follett
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The manager cannot share his power with division superintendent or foreman or workman, but he can give them opportunities for developing their power. -- Mary Parker Follett
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We certainly do not want to abolish power, that would be abolishing life itself, but we need a new orientation toward it. -- Mary Parker Follett
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Fear of difference is fear of life itself. -- Mary Parker Follett
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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. -- Mary Parker Follett
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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. -- Mary Parker Follett
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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. -- Mary Parker Follett
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Another idea that is changing is that the leader must be one who can make quick decisions. The leader to-day is often one who thinks out his decisions very slowly. -- Mary Parker Follett
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Part of the task of the leader is to make others participate in his leadership. The best leader knows how to make his followers actually feel power themselves, not merely acknowledge his power. -- Mary Parker Follett
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The leader is one who can organize the experience of the group ... and thus get the full power of the group. The leader makes the team. This is pre-eminently the leadership quality - the ability to organize all the forces there are in an enterprise and make them serve a common purpose. -- Mary Parker Follett
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Democracy must be conceived as a process, not a goal. -- Mary Parker Follett
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The conflict of chemistry we do not think reprehensible. If we could look at social conflict as neither good nor bad, but simply a fact, we should make great strides in our thinking. -- Mary Parker Follett
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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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While leadership depends on depth of conviction and the power coming therefrom, there must also be the ability to share that conviction with others. -- Mary Parker Follett
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A fatal defect in majority rule is that by its very nature it abolishes itself. Majority rule must inevitably become minority rule: the majority is too big to handle itself; it organizes itself into committees ... which in their turn resolve themselves into a committee of one ... -- Mary Parker Follett
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Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim. We attain unity only through variety. Differences must be integrated, not annihilated, not absorbed. -- Mary Parker Follett
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I am free when I am functioning here in time and space as the creative will ... freedom by our definition is obedience to the law of one's nature. -- Mary Parker Follett
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It is of equal importance with the discovery of facts to know what to do with them ... -- Mary Parker Follett
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There are three ways of dealing with difference: domination, compromise, and integration. By domination only one side gets what it wants; by compromise neither side gets what it wants; by integration we find a way by which both sides may get what they wish. -- Mary Parker Follett
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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. -- Mary Parker Follett
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Imitation is for shirkers, like-minded-ness for the comfort lovers, unifying for the creators. -- Mary Parker Follett
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It is not opposition but indifference which separates men. -- Mary Parker Follett
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In the small group then is where we shall find the inner meaning of democracy, its very heart and core. -- Mary Parker Follett
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The best leaders try to train their followers themselves to become leaders ... they wish to be leaders of leaders. -- Mary Parker Follett
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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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Democracy is not brute numbers; it is a genuine union of true individuals ... the essence of democracy is creating. The technique of democracy is group organization. -- Mary Parker Follett
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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. -- Mary Parker Follett
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Administrative purpose usually outruns the facts. Indeed the administrative official's ardor for facts usually begins when he wants to change the facts! -- Mary Parker Follett
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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. -- Mary Parker Follett
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Conflict is resolved not through compromise, but through invention. -- Mary Parker Follett
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It seems to me that whereas power usually means power-over, the power of some person or group over some other person or group, it is possible to develop the conception of power-with, a jointly developed power, a co-active, not a coercive power. -- Mary Parker Follett
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The paradox of American democracy has been that its slogan of equal opportunity has meant, often, equal opportunity to get power over your fellows. -- Mary Parker Follett
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We are sometime truly to see our life as positive, not negative, as made up of continuous willing, not of constraints and prohibition. -- Mary Parker Follett
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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. -- Mary Parker Follett
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Coercive power is the curse of the universe, coactive power, the enrichment and advancement of every human soul. -- Mary Parker Follett
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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. -- Mary Parker Follett
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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. -- Mary Parker Follett
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We should think not only of what the leader does to the group, but also of what the group does to the leader. -- Mary Parker Follett
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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. -- Mary Parker Follett
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What people often mean by getting rid of conflict is getting rid of diversity, and it is of the utmost importance that these should not be considered the same. -- Mary Parker Follett
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Crowd action is the outcome of agreement based on concurrence of emotion rather than of thought ... -- Mary Parker Follett
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We should never allow ourselves to be bullied by an either-or. There is often the possibility of something better than either of these two alternatives. -- Mary Parker Follett