Mary Parker Follett Quotes about Opportunity

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The manager cannot share his power with division superintendent or foreman or workman, but he can give them opportunities for developing their power.

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 Follett

Opportunity, Helping Others, People

Mary Parker Follett, Pauline Graham (1996). “Mary Parker Follett--prophet of management: a celebration of writings from the 1920s”, Harvard Business Press

many rules could be made for the giving of orders. Don't preach when you give orders. Don't discuss matters already settled unless you have fresh data. Make your direction so specific that there will be no question whether they have been obeyed or not. Find out how to give directions and yet to allow people opportunity for independent thinking, for initiative. And so on and so on. Order-giving requires just as much study and just as much training as any other skill we wish to acquire.

Mary Parker Follett

Leadership, Independent, Opportunity

The 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 Follett

Women, Opportunity, Democracies Have