The manager cannot share his power with division superintendent or foreman or workman, but he can give them opportunities for developing their power.
Mary Parker FollettI am convinced that any feeling of exaltation because we have people under us should be conquered, for I am sure that if we enjoy being over people, there will be something in our manner which will make them dislike being under us.
Mary Parker FollettLaw should seek far more than mere reconciliation; it should be one of the great creative forces of our social life.
Mary Parker FollettPower-over is resorted to time without number because people will not wait for the slower process of education.
Mary Parker FollettUnity, not uniformity, must be our aim. We attain unity only through variety. Differences must be integrated, not annihilated, not absorbed.
Mary Parker Folletta little of the ready reliance on the expert comes from the desire to waive responsibillity, comes from the endless evasion of life instead of an honest facing of it. The expert is to many what the priest is, someone who knows absolutely and can tell us what to do. The king, the priest, the expert, have one after the other had our allegiance, but so far as we put any of them in the place of ourselves, we have not a sound society and neither individual nor general progress.
Mary Parker Follett