And the most successful leader of all is one who sees another picture not yet actualized. He sees the things which belong in his present picture but which are not yet there. Mary Parker Follett More Quotes by Mary Parker Follett More Quotes From Mary Parker Follett a little of the ready reliance on the expert comes from the desire to waive responsibillity, comes from the endless evasion of life instead of an honest facing of it. The expert is to many what the priest is, someone who knows absolutely and can tell us what to do. The king, the priest, the expert, have one after the other had our allegiance, but so far as we put any of them in the place of ourselves, we have not a sound society and neither individual nor general progress. Mary Parker Follett progress kings desire Now that we are recognizing more fully the value of the individual, now that management is defining more exactly the function of each, many are coming to regard the leader as the man who can energize his group, who knows how to encourage initiative, how to draw from all what each has to give. Mary Parker Follett leadership giving men Law should seek far more than mere reconciliation; it should be one of the great creative forces of our social life. Mary Parker Follett creative social law