On Redefining Power, Un-becoming, and Wholemaking with Mary Parker Follett

Reflections on power, conflict and integration of self and society from a progressive woman who was the leadership and management guru's guru from the early 1900's

“All our work in life is interdependent.”

- Mary Parker Follett

While reading Matthew Barzun’s book the Power of Giving Away Power¹, I had come across his story about Mary Parker Follett. While she may say that we need not put people up on a pedestal as a “guru” on leadership, management, or anything for that matter, she herself was considered the gurus’ …