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Mary Parker Follett

Mary Parker Follett was a pioneering management thinker focused on integration, conflict, power, and participatory leadership.

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Mary Parker Follett is associated with work that helps practitioners understand how knowledge is created, structured, shared, or acted upon in complex systems.

Their work contributes to the Knowledge Flow library because it offers concepts, practices, or research traditions that make invisible thinking more visible.

Across the library, this person helps connect individual cognition, social coordination, technical design, and institutional behavior to the larger question of how understanding moves through systems.

Relevance to Knowledge Flow

Follett supports Knowledge Flow by moving authority toward knowledge, situation, and collaborative integration.

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Work by Mary Parker Follett

Book

Dynamic Administration

The Collected Papers of Mary Parker Follett

Authority should emerge from the situation, not merely from hierarchy. Dynamic Administration presents Mary Parker Follett's pioneering ideas on integration, conflict, participation, and collaborative power.

Knowledge Flow

  • Relational Leadership