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Mary Parker Follett, A Boston social theorist and pioneer of management thought, decades ahead of her field, gets quoted everywhere and sourced almost nowhere. The 5 quotes below are different: each one is checked word for word against the cited work, starting with Mary Parker Follett, Dynamic Administration: The Collected Papers of Mary Parker Follett, not copied from aggregator sites that pass misattributions along. The source is named under every line, so you can trace each quote back to the page it came from.
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On measuring your leadership by what your team becomes:
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, Mary Parker Follett, Dynamic Administration: The Collected Papers of Mary Parker Follett
On why because I said so fails as leadership:
One person should not give orders to another person, but both should agree to take their orders from the situation.Mary Parker Follett, Mary Parker Follett, Dynamic Administration: The Collected Papers of Mary Parker Follett
On why delegating well matters more than doing it all yourself:
Management is the art of getting things done through people.Mary Parker Follett, Mary Parker Follett, Dynamic Administration: The Collected Papers of Mary Parker Follett
On treating a disagreement as useful instead of a threat:
Conflict is not necessarily a wasteful outbreak of incompatibilities, but a normal process by which socially valuable differences register themselves for the enrichment of all concerned.Mary Parker Follett, Mary Parker Follett, Dynamic Administration: The Collected Papers of Mary Parker Follett
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On finding yourself through community, not apart from it:
We are learning that the completest self expression is not through individual, isolated activity, but that the individual must relate himself to the whole.Mary Parker Follett, Mary Parker Follett, The New State