All Mary Parker Follett Quotes
- Fear of difference is fear of life itself. Difference
- 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… Conflict
- Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim. We attain unity only through variety. Differences must be integrated, not annihilated, not absorbed. Absorbed
- Conflict is resolved not through compromise, but through invention. Compromise
- That is always our problem, not how to get control of people, but how all together we can get control of a situation. All
- 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… Both
- 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… Assumption
- The paradox of American democracy has been that its slogan of equal opportunity has meant, often, equal opportunity to get power over your fellows. American
- We have thought of peace as passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not the most strenuous… Active
- 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… All
- Leadership is not defined by the exercise of power but by the capacity to increase the sense of power among those led. The most essential… Among
- Idealism and realism meet in the actual. Actual
- It is not opposition but indifference which separates men. Indifference
- The unifying of opposites is the eternal process. Eternal
- 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… Active
- We are sometime truly to see our life as positive, not negative, as made up of continuous willing, not of constraints and prohibition. Constraints
- Coercive power is the curse of the universe, coactive power, the enrichment and advancement of every human soul. Advancement
- Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim. Aim
- 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… Few
- The insight to see possible new paths, the courage to try them, the judgment to measure results - these are the qualities of a leader. Courage
- There is no such thing as vicarious experience. 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… Any
- Most people are not for or against anything; the first object of getting people together is to make them respond somehow, to overcome inertia. Commitment
- Leader and followers are both following the invisible leader-the common purpose. Both
- Concepts can never be presented to me merely, they must be knitted into the structure of my being, and this can only be done through… Activity