Mary Parker Follett - Group Quotes

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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
The group process contains the secret of collective life, it is the key to democracy, it is the master lesson for every individual to learn, it is our chief hope or the political, the social, the international life of the future.

Mary Parker Follett
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
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
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
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
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
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