Power-over is resorted to time without number because people will not wait for the slower process of education. — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
When leadership rises to genius it has the power of transforming, of transforming experience into power. And that is what experience is… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Leadership is not defined by the exercise of power but by the capacity to increase the sense of power among those led.… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
Coercive power is the curse of the universe, coactive power, the enrichment and advancement of every human soul. — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
Part of the task of the leader is to make others participate in his leadership. The best leader knows how to make… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Leader and followers are both following the invisible leader-the common purpose. — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
