Mary Parker Follett Quotes
Top 38 wise famous quotes and sayings by Mary Parker Follett
Mary Parker Follett Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Mary Parker Follett on Wise Famous Quotes.
Power-over is resorted to time without number because people will not wait for the slower process of education.
The best leaders try to train their followers themselves to become leaders ... they wish to be leaders of leaders.
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.
We certainly do not want to abolish power, that would be abolishing life itself, but we need a new orientation toward it.
Experience may be hard but we claim its gifts because they are real, even though our feet bleed on its stones.
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..
Coercive power is the curse of the universe, coactive power, the enrichment and advancement of every human soul.
We are sometime truly to see our life as positive, not negative, as made up of continuous willing, not of constraints and prohibition.
There is a pernicious tendency to make the opinions of the expert prevail by crowd methods, to rush the people instead of educating them.
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.
Most people are not for or against anything; the first object of getting people together is to make them respond somehow, to overcome inertia.
That is always our problem, not how to get control of people, but how all together we can get control of a situation.
The manager cannot share his power with division superintendent or foreman or workman, but he can give them opportunities for developing their power.
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.
We should think not only of what the leader does to the group, but also of what the group does to the leader.
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.
Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim. We attain unity only through variety. Differences must be integrated, not annihilated, not absorbed.
Law should seek far more than mere reconciliation; it should be one of the great creative forces of our social life.
While leadership depends on depth of conviction and the power coming therefrom, there must also be the ability to share that conviction with others.
In the small group then is where we shall find the inner meaning of democracy, its very heart and core.
The paradox of American democracy has been that its slogan of equal opportunity has meant, often, equal opportunity to get power over your fellows.