Crowd action is the outcome of agreement based on concurrence of emotion rather than of thought.
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 FollettThe paradox of American democracy has been that its slogan of equal opportunity has meant, often, equal opportunity to get power over your fellows.
Mary Parker FollettIt is possible to conceive conflict as 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 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 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