Mary Parker Follett Quotes

Imitation is for shirkers like-minded-ness for the comfort lovers unifying for the creators.

The insight to see possible new paths the courage to try them the judgment to measure results-these are the qualities of a leader.

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

The unifying of opposites is the eternal process.

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

That is always our problem not how to get control of people but how all together we can get control of a situation.

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

There is no such thing as vicarious experience.

I am convinced that any feeling of exaltation because we have people under us should be conquered for I am sure that if we enjoy being over people there will be something in our manner which will make them dislike being under us.

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

It is not opposition but indifference which separates men.

Unity not uniformity must be our aim. We attain unity only through variety. Differences must be integrated not annihilated not absorbed.

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.

Most people are not for or against anything the first object of getting people together is to make them respond somehow to overcome inertia.