Follett believed, as will be noted in Friday’s post, that it is important for organizations to have high quality, constructive conflict in order to generate productive forward motion and creativity. We will be looking briefly tomorrow at just one way she promoted to make that happen. Others involve her definition of power in an organization as capacity, something to be grown and disbursed throughout the organization.

Mary Parker Follett is very much worth reading today – in my view offering fresh and cogent insights that are vastly superior to most of the nonsense – much of it founded in pop-psyc, as you say – that is produced currently.

Your observation about leaders creating “conflict in themselves and then strategically in the world that serves their purposes.” – that’s very interesting. That’s going to be in the background while reading the news for some time – thanks!

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Thanks for the visit and the kind comment – this will be a short series briefly summarizing some of Mary Parker Follett’s (still unmatched, in my view) thinking on this topic – I hope you enjoy it!