Mary Parker Follett Prophet of Management

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Pauline Graham
Beard Books, 2003 - Business & Economics - 309 pages
This is a reprint of a previously published work. She was the predecessor of modern theorists on management. Almost everything written today about leadershipand organizations comes from Mary Parker Follett's writings.
 

Contents

Relating The Circular Response
35
Constructive Conflict
67
Follett Constructive Conflict
87
Power
97
The Giving of Orders
121
The Basis of Authority
141
Mary Parker Folletts View on Power the Giving of Orders and Authority An Alternative to Hierarchy or a Utopian Ideology?
154
The Essentials of Leadership
163
THE INDIVIDUAL THE GROUP AND SOCIETY
227
The Individual in the Group
229
The Individual in the Group
240
The Individual in Society
247
BUSINESSTHE WAY AHEAD
265
Business in Society
267
Most QuotedLeast Heeded The Five Senses of Follett
282
Epilogue
291

Thoughts on The Essentials of Leadership
177
Coordination
183
Some Fresh Air for Management? Henry Mintzberg
199
Reflections on Design and the Third Way
205
The Process of Control
213

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