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Mary Parker Follett

Mary Parker Follett (September 3, 1868 – December 18, 1933) was an American social worker, management consultant, philosopher, and pioneer in the fields of organizational theory and organizational behavior. Along with Lillian Gilbreth, Mary Parker Follett was one of two great women management gurus in the early days of classical management theory. Follett is known to be "Mother of Modern Management".

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Conflict is resolved not through compromise, but through invention.

Compromise, Conflict, Invention

When leadership rises to genius it has the power of transforming, of transforming experience into power. And that is what experience is for, to be made into power. The great leader creates as well as directs power.

Genius, Great Leader, Leadership, Transforming

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.

Made, Ought, People, Tell, Want

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

Activities, Daily, Daily Activities, Divorce, Life, Spiritual

we should think not only of what the leader does to the group, but also of what the group does to the leader.

Group, Groups, Leader, Leadership, Think, Thinking

While leadership depends on depth of conviction and the power coming therefrom, there must also be the ability to share that conviction with others.

Ability, Conviction, Depth, Leadership

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

Agreement, Based, Concurrence, Crowds, Emotion, Outcomes

The manager cannot share his power with division superintendent or foreman or workman, but he can give them opportunities for developing their power.

Division, Foreman, Helping Others, Opportunity, People, Share

What people often mean by getting rid of conflict is getting rid of diversity, and it is of the utmost importance that these should not be considered the same.

Acceptance, Conflict, Importance, Mean, People, Rid

The most successful leader of all is the one who sees another picture not yet actualised

Actualised, Leader, Leadership, Successful

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.

Conflict, Issues, Real, Reconciled, Stake

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.

Concerned, Differences, Healing, Normal, Socially, Wasteful

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.

Bad, Fact, Facts, Looks, Simply, Thinking

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.

Aspects, Human, Problem, Psychological, Think, Thinking

Fear of difference is fear of life itself.

Difference, Differences, Diversity, Fear, Justice, Life

The most successful leader of all is the one who sees another picture not yet actualized. He sees the things which are not yet there. . . Above all, he should make his co-workers see that it is not his purpose which is to be achieved, but a common purpose, born of the desires and the activities of the group.

Activities, Common Purpose, Desires, Leader, See, Successful

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.

Exactly, Giving, Leadership, Men, Recognizing, Value

All polishing is done by friction.

Done, Friction, Polishing

Democracy must be conceived as a process, not a goal.

Conceived, Democracy, Goal, Process

It is not opposition but indifference which separates men.

Indifference, Inspirational, Men, Opposition, Separates

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