Mary Parker Follett (1920): “Loyalty to a collective will which we have not created, and of which we are therefore not an integral part, is slavery.”
Speaker The Mary Parker Follett Foundation is sponsoring a series of talks on Follett, a management consultant to Teddy Roosevelt and influential author on organizational theory. Speaking Dec. 6 on how wisdom councils support Follett’s vision, Jim Rough:
Jim Rough I want to talk about how we can really actually realize her vision of democracy. And this is a big deal. I mean, the real problem here is: How do we get to that democracy? And I have a breakthrough strategy, I think. But I need that question in order to be heard. I need somebody to ask that question. Otherwise people don’t think that big.
So how do we get Follett’s vision of democracy to actually happen here in the United States, soon, in time? Because this is not an intellectual exercise in my mind. It’s about how to get there…