Mary Parker Follett

Mary Parker Follett's essays on management from the 1920s were years ahead of their time, promoting concepts like empowerment, teams, and networked organizations. Mary Parker Follett — Prophet of Management contains her original essays with commentaries by Peter Drucker, Warren Bennis, Henry Mintzberg, and other modern business thinkers that highlight the relevance of her work today.

Mary Parker Follett (1868-1933) was a pioneer in the field of social work before focusing on business organization and management.

• Preface
  Rosabeth Moss Kanter
• Introduction: Mary Parker Follett: Prophet of Management
  Peter F. Drucker
• Mary Parker Follett (1868-1933): A Pioneering Life
  Pauline Graham
• Part One: The Psychological Foundations of Business Organizations
1. Relating: The Circular Response
2. Constructive Conflict
   Commentary: Follett: Constructive Conflict
   John Child
3. Power
4. The Giving of Orders
5. The Basis of Authority
   Commentary: Mary Parker Follett's View on Power, the Giving of Orders, and Authority: An Alternative to Hierarchy or a Utopian Ideology?
   Nitin Nohira
6. The Essentials of Leadership
   Commentary: Thoughts on "The Essentials of Leadership"
   Warren Bennis
7. Co-ordination
   Commentary: Some Fresh Air for Management?
   Henry Mintzberg
   Commentary: Reflections on Design and the Third Way
   Angela Dumas
8. The Process of Control
• Part Two: The Individual, The Group, and Society
9. The Individual in the Group
   Commentary: The Individual in the Group
   Tokihiko Enomoto
10. The Individual in Society
• Part Three; Business — The Way Ahead
11. Business in Society
    Commentary: Most Quoted — Least Heeded: The Five Senses of Follett
    Sir Peter Parker
• Epilogue
  Paul R. Lawrence
• Bibliography of Mary Parker Follett's Writings

This is no book about Mrs. Follett; it is her texts with comments. Recommended reading.