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.… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
I wish we could understand the word expert as expressing an attitude of mind which we can all acquire rather than the collecting of information by a special caste. ... Many of us are calling for experts because, acutely conscious… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
Many people tell me what I ought to do and just how I ought to do it, but Few have made me want to… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share
We are not wholly patriotic when we are working with all our heart for America merely; we are truly patriotic only when we are… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share
One of the greatest values of controversy is its revealing nature. The real issues at stake come into the open and have the possibility… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share
Now that we are recognizing more fully the value of the individual, now that management is defining more exactly the function of each, many… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share
Law should seek far more than mere reconciliation; it should be one of the great creative forces of our social life. — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share
It is always the sign of the second-rate man when the decision merely meets the present situation. It is the left-over in a decision… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share
Another idea that is changing is that the leader must be one who can make quick decisions. The leader to-day is often one who… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share
Leader and followers are both following the invisible leader-the common purpose. — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share
I am convinced that any feeling of exaltation because we have people under us should be conquered, for I am sure that if we… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share
I do not think that we have psychological and ethical and economic problems. We have human problems, with psychological, ethical and economical aspects, and… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share
An order then should always be given not as a personal matter, not because the man giving it wants the thing done, but because… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share
Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim. We attain unity only through variety. Differences must be integrated, not annihilated, not absorbed. — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share
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… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share
