Mary Parker Follett Short Quotes

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Orders come from the work, not work from the orders.

Mary Parker Follett
Good intentions are not sufficient to solve our problems.

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

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

Mary Parker Follett
No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.

Mary Parker Follett
Leader and followers are both following the invisible leader-the common purpose.

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

Mary Parker Follett
The most successful leader of all is one who sees another picture not yet actualized.

Mary Parker Follett
We must face life as it is and understand that diversity is its most essential feature.

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

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The divorce of our so-called spiritual life from our daily activities is a fatal dualism.

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

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 study of human relations in business and the study of the technology of operating are bound up together.

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

Mary Parker Follett
Power-over is resorted to time without number because people will not wait for the slower process of education.

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Coercive power is the curse of the universe; coactive power, the enrichment and advancement of every human soul.

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
The best leaders try to train their followers themselves to become leaders.... they wish to be leaders of leaders.

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

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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.

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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.

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
The method of moral hygiene as of physical hygiene is social cooperation. We do not walk into the Kingdom of Heaven one by one.

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
Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim. We attain unity only through variety. Differences must be integrated, not annihilated, nor absorbed.

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
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
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