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Mary Parker Follett

2 essays where Mary Parker Follett sits on the council. Mary weighs in on ambition, self-deception, patterns. Read what Mary would tell you.

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Career

When Is Ambition a Strength and When Is It a Trap?

Three thinkers on ambition as strength or trap. Nietzsche asks whether you are creating or consuming yourself. Simon warns about searching without stopping. Follett finds the third path.

Friedrich NietzscheHerbert SimonMary Parker Follettambitionself-deception

Relationships

Why Do I Keep Falling for the Same Kind of Person?

You have been here before. Murdoch says your ego is building pictures. Skinner says it is conditioning. Follett asks whether you have tried integration.

Iris MurdochMary Parker FollettB.F. Skinnerpatternsself-knowledge

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B.F. Skinner Friedrich Nietzsche Herbert Simon Iris Murdoch ambition patterns self-deception self-knowledge

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