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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

The best leaders try to train their followers themselves to become leaders ... they wish to be leaders of leaders. — Mary Parker Follett

It is of equal importance with the discovery of facts to know what to do with them ... — Mary Parker Follett

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

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

Democracy is self-creating coherence. — Mary Parker Follett

It is not opposition but indifference which separates men. — Mary Parker Follett

Experience may be hard but we claim its gifts because they are real, even though our feet bleed on its stones. — Mary Parker Follett

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

Coercive power is the curse of the universe, coactive power, the enrichment and advancement of every human soul. — Mary Parker Follett

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

Responsiblity is the great developer of men. — Mary Parker Follett

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

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

Crowd action is the outcome of agreement based on concurrence of emotion rather than of thought ... — Mary Parker Follett

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

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

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

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

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

All polishing is done by friction, — Mary Parker Follett

The state accumulates moral power only through the spiritual activity of their citizens. — Mary Parker Follett

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

Imitation is for shirkers, like-minded-ness for the comfort lovers, unifying for the creators. — Mary Parker Follett

Fear of difference is fear of life itself. — Mary Parker Follett

Conflict is resolved not through compromise, but through invention. — Mary Parker Follett

Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim. We attain unity only through variety. Differences must be integrated, not annihilated, not absorbed. — Mary Parker Follett

Law should seek far more than mere reconciliation; it should be one of the great creative forces of our social life. — Mary Parker Follett

There is no such thing as vicarious experience. — Mary Parker Follett

Management is the art of getting things done through people. — Mary Parker Follett

The unifying of opposites is the eternal process. — Mary Parker Follett

Democracy must be conceived as a process, not a goal. — Mary Parker Follett

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

Idealism and realism meet in the actual. — Mary Parker Follett

In the small group then is where we shall find the inner meaning of democracy, its very heart and core. — Mary Parker Follett

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

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

Orders come from the work, not work from the orders. — Mary Parker Follett