The leader is one who can organize the experience of the group ... and thus get the full power of the group. The leader makes the team. This is pre-eminently the leadership quality - the ability to organize all the forces there are in an enterprise and make them serve a common purpose.
Mary Parker FollettGive your difference, welcome my difference, unify all difference in the larger whole - such is the law of growth. The unifying of difference is the eternal process of life - the creative synthesis, the highest act of creation, the at-onement.
Mary Parker FollettWe must face life as it is and understand that diversity is its most essential feature.
Mary Parker Follettthere is a pernicious tendency to make the opinions of the expert prevail by crowd methods, to rush the people instead of educating them.
Mary Parker Follettthe leader releases energy, unites energies, and all with the object not only of carrying out a purpose, but of creating further and larger purposes. And I do not mean here by larger purposes mergers or more branches; I speak of larger in the qualitative rather than the quantitative sense. I mean purposes which will include more of those fundamental values for which most of us agree we are really living.
Mary Parker FollettThat is always our problem, not how to get control of people, but how all together we can get control of a situation.
Mary Parker FollettNow that we are recognizing more fully the value of the individual, now that management is defining more exactly the function of each, many are coming to regard the leader as the man who can energize his group, who knows how to encourage initiative, how to draw from all what each has to give.
Mary Parker Follett