Mary Parker Follett Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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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 FollettSource : Mary Parker Follett (1918). “The New State: Group Organization the Solution of Popular Government”, p.39, Penn State Press
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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 FollettSource : Mary Parker Follett (2013). “Freedom and Co-ordination (RLE: Organizations): Lectures in Business Organization”, p.24, Routledge
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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 FollettSource : Mary Parker Follett (1957). “Dynamic administration: the collected papers of 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.”
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“Coercive power is the curse of the universe, coactive power, the enrichment and advancement of every human soul.”
-- Mary Parker FollettSource : Mary Parker Follett, Pauline Graham (1996). “Mary Parker Follett--prophet of management: a celebration of writings from the 1920s”, Harvard Business Press
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“We have thought of peace as 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 ... From War to Peace is not from the strenuous to the easy existence; it is from the futile to the effective, from the stagnant to the active, from the destructive to the creative way of life ... The world will be regenerated by the people who rise above these passive ways and heroically seek, by whatever hardship, by whatever toil, the methods by which people can agree.”
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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 FollettSource : Mary Parker Follett (1918). “The New State: Group Organization the Solution of Popular Government”, p.40, Penn State Press
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“the point of educating instead of blaming seems to me very important. For nothing stultifies one more than being blamed. Moreover, if the question is, who is to blame?, perhaps each will want to place the blame on someone else, or on the other hand, someone may try to shield his fellow-worker. In either case the attempt is to hide the error and if this is done the error cannot be corrected.”
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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.”
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“Management is the art of getting things done through people.”
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“Responsiblity is the great developer of men.”
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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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“we certainly do not want to abolish power, that would be abolishing life itself, but we need a new orientation toward it.”
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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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“Idealism and realism meet in the actual.”
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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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“... good intentions are not sufficient to solve our problems.”
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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.”
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“The state accumulates moral power only through the spiritual activity of their citizens.”
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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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“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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“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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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“... orders come from the work, not work from the orders.”
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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 ...”
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“Democracy must be conceived as a process, not a goal.”
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“It is always the sign of the second-rate man when the decision merely meets the present situation. It is the left-over in a decision which gives it its greatest value. It is the carry-over in the decision which helps develop the situation in the way we wish it to be developed. 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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