And the most successful leader of all is one who sees another picture not yet actualized. He sees the things which belong in his present picture but which are not yet there.
Mary Parker FollettThe foreman today does not merely deal with trouble, he forestalls trouble. In fact, we don't think much of a foreman who is always dealing with trouble; we feel that if he is doing his job properly, there won't be so much trouble.
Mary Parker FollettMany people tell me what I ought to do and just how I ought to do it, but Few have made me want to do something.
Mary Parker FollettI am free when I am functioning here in time and space as the creative will. ... freedom by our definition is obedience to the law of one's nature.
Mary Parker FollettThe best leader does not ask people to serve him, but the common end. The best leader has not followers, but men and women working with him.
Mary Parker Follettmany rules could be made for the giving of orders. Don't preach when you give orders. Don't discuss matters already settled unless you have fresh data. Make your direction so specific that there will be no question whether they have been obeyed or not. Find out how to give directions and yet to allow people opportunity for independent thinking, for initiative. And so on and so on. Order-giving requires just as much study and just as much training as any other skill we wish to acquire.
Mary Parker Follett