"Leadership is not defined by the exercise of……" — Mary Parker Follett
"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 work of the leader is to create more leaders."
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Mary Parker Follett
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28 Quotes by Mary Parker Follett
Mary Parker Follett has 28 quotes on this site.
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Fear of difference is fear of life itself.
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What people often mean by getting rid of conflict is getting rid of diversity, and it is of the utmost…
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Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim. We attain unity only through variety. Differences must be integrated, not annihilated, not…
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Conflict is resolved not through compromise, but through invention.
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That is always our problem, not how to get control of people, but how all together we can get control…
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There are three ways of dealing with difference: domination, compromise, and integration. By domination only one side gets what it…
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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…
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The paradox of American democracy has been that its slogan of equal opportunity has meant, often, equal opportunity to get…
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We have thought of peace as passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War…
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It is possible to conceive conflict as not necessarily a wasteful outbreak of incompatibilities, but a normal process by which…
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Idealism and realism meet in the actual.
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It is not opposition but indifference which separates men.
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