Mary Parker Follett - Expert Quotes

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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

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

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

While the executive should give every possible value to the information of the specialist, no executive should abdicate thinking on any subject because of the expert. The expert's information or opinion should not be allowed automatically to become a decision. On the other hand, full recognition should be given to the part the expert plays in decision making.

Mary Parker Follett