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 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 FollettExperience may be hard but we claim its gifts because they are real, even though our feet bleed on its stones.
Mary Parker FollettWe must face life as it is and understand that diversity is its most essential feature.
Mary Parker Follett