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Mary Parker Follett Prophet of Management
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.
Dear Mr. You
This book "renders the singular arc of a woman's life through letters Mary-Louise Parker composes to the men, real and hypothetical, who have informed the person she is today. Beginning with the grandfather she never knew, the letters range from a missive to the beloved priest from her childhood to remembrances of former lovers to an homage to a firefighter she encountered to a heartfelt communication with the uncle of the infant daughter she adopted"--
The New State
A reissue of a classic work in American political theory that addresses issues of participatory democracy being debated today.Known mostly for her pioneering work in managerial theory, Mary Parker Follett (1868-1933) was also an astute political theorist. In The New State (1918), she wrote a classic work in democratic political theory. Her vision of citizens gathering into neighborhood centers and engaging in civic dialogue continues to inform recent calls to strengthen American democracy from below. Next to John Dewey's The Public and Its Problems (1927), The New State stands as one of the most important political works that grew out of the Progressive Era in American history.Having organiz...
Dynamic Administration
Mary Parker Follett was a prominent business philosopher of the period, who agreed with Sheldon about the need to emphasize human factors in management, but placing greater stress on the need to develop a science of cooperation. According to Follett, what she called her 'Law of the Situation' could be a means for bridging the gap between an ideal of scientific management and the unilateral position that it seemed to involve in practice. In effect she was proposing the same collaboration between leaders and subordinates that was usually to be found between leaders of the same rank.
Riches
Money can't buy love, but it helps to have riches... As the lives of sisters Tiffany and Morgan unfold in a world of sex, scandal, power and riches, they must learn that wealth and privilege can't buy happiness. Una-Mary Parker's Riches will enthral fans of Penny Vincenzi and Jackie Collins. 'Will keep you glued to the page' Prima Tiffany - by day a successful costume designer working from her luxurious Park Avenue apartment. By night, the 'other woman' in the arms of film director Hunt Kellerman. Morgan - her only ambition is marriage to an English aristocrat. And in Henry, Marquess of Blairmore, dubbed one of Britain's most eligible bachelors, she finds just the man. Zac - their younger br...
The Essential Mary Parker Follett
The Essential Mary Parker Follett: Ideas We Need Today The Essential Mary Parker Follett: Ideas We Need Today is a comprehensive selection of texts from early 20th-century intellectual pioneer Mary Parker Follett. Her ground-breaking ideas on leadership, diversity, mediation, management and democracy remain impressively relevant in our modern world. For the first time, these ideas have been selected, organized, and structured by an international team into five topics that encompass her philosophy and works. This book presents timeless thoughts on uniting, organizing, integrating, leading, and creating democracy - universal themes that are just as significant and applicable to our professiona...
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Freedom and Co-ordination (RLE: Organizations)
A pioneer in the fields of organizational theory and behaviour Mary Parker Follett authored a number of books and numerous essays, articles and speeches on human relations, political philosophy, psychology and management. The first woman invited to address the London School of Economics, this book includes five lectures delivered to the newly-formed Department of Business Administration at the LSE in 1933, as well as six given by Parker Follett a the Taylor Society in New York in 1926.
The Granville Sisters
As World War II looms, a battle rages between two wealthy London sisters: “[The] characters are rich, varied, and intriguing.” —Booklist It is 1935, and the Granville family lives in a world of splendor. Rosie Granville and her younger sister Juliet are launched onto the London social scene in an extravagant debutante ball, and the Granville girls are the talk of the town. Vying for the affections of the same set of men, each is desperate to make a better match than her sister—regardless of the collateral damage. But when Juliet becomes embroiled in a series of scandals, she and Rosie soon discover there are some things even their rich and influential parents aren’t able to cover up, in this dramatic and enthralling historical saga of love and sibling rivalry.
