Mary Parker Follett Quotes About Quality
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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.
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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.
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The insight to see possible new paths, the courage to try them, the judgment to measure results - these are the qualities of a leader.
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Mary Parker Follett
- Born: September 3, 1868
- Died: December 18, 1933
- Occupation: Social Worker
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