Mary Parker Follett Quotes About Conflict
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Conflict is resolved not through compromise, but through invention.
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The conflict of chemistry we do not think reprehensible. If we could look at social conflict as neither good nor bad, but simply a fact, we should make great strides in our thinking.
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One 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.
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What people often mean by getting rid of conflict is getting rid of diversity, and it is of the utmost importance that these should not be considered the same.
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It 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.
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There are three ways of dealing with difference: domination, compromise, and integration. By domination only one side gets what it wants; by compromise neither side gets what it wants; by integration we find a way by which both sides may get what they wish.
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Mary Parker Follett
- Born: September 3, 1868
- Died: December 18, 1933
- Occupation: Social Worker