We often tend to think that the executive wishes to maintain standard, wishes to reach a certain quality of production, and that the worker has to be goaded in some way to do this. Again and again we forget that the worker is often, usually I think, equally interested, that his greatest pleasure in his work comes from the satisfaction of worthwhile accomplishment, of having done the best of which he was capable.
Mary Parker FollettOne of the greatest values of controversy is its revealing nature. The real issues at stake come into the open and have the possibility of being reconciled.
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 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 Follett