Mary Parker Follett Quotes
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Conflict is resolved not through compromise, but through invention.
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if you wish to train yourself for higher executive positions, the first thing for you to decide is what you are training for. Ability to dominate or manipulate others? That ought to be easy enough, since most of the magazines advertise sure ways of developing something they call 'personality.' But I am convinced that the first essential of business success is the capacity for organized thinking.
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Leader and followers are both following the invisible leader-the common purpose.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It is not opposition but indifference which separates men.
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There is no such thing as vicarious experience.
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In the small group then is where we shall find the inner meaning of democracy, its very heart and core.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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... orders come from the work, not work from the orders.
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... good intentions are not sufficient to solve our problems.
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The state accumulates moral power only through the spiritual activity of their citizens.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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the best leaders try to train their followers themselves to become leaders. ... they wish to be leaders of leaders.
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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.
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The divorce of our so-called spiritual life from our daily activities is a fatal dualism.
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Idealism and realism meet in the actual.
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It is of equal importance with the discovery of facts to know what to do with them.
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Leader and followers are both following the invisible leader - the common purpose. The best executives put this common purpose clearly before their group. While leadership depends on depth of conviction and the power coming therefrom there must also be the ability to share that conviction with others, the ability to make purpose articulate. And then that common purpose becomes the leader.
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We are sometime truly to see our life as positive, not negative, as made up of continuous willing, not of constraints and prohibition.
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Majority rule rests on numbers; democracy rests on the well-grounded assumption that society is neither a collection of units nor an organism but a network of human relations.
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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.
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Mary Parker Follett
- Born: September 3, 1868
- Died: December 18, 1933
- Occupation: Social Worker
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