Creative Experience

Discover why the author of this book was given the title "The Prophet of Management"! Mary Parker Follett introduced her revolutionary ideas on industrial management and labor relations a century ago, inspiring major influence lasting until today on business administration. This book will show you democracy like you've never seen before. In a pragmatic approach, Follett bridges the gap between organizational goals and individual desire, giving insights on individual and group psychologies. It discusses the social and psychological implications of an unprecedented form of management based on spontaneous organization. She gives a definitive means to utilize experience, focusing on individual integrity. "Life is not a movie for us; you can never watch life because you are always in life." "The object of this book is to suggest that we seek a way by which desires may interweave, that we seek a method by which the full integrity of the individual shall be one with social progress, that we try to make our daily experience yield for us larger and ever larger spiritual values." ~Mary Follett

2013 Reprint of 1951 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. "Creative Experience" first published in 1924, reflected Mary Parker Follett's growing interest in the problems of industrial relations and the realm of management. She has the same commitment to democracy and encounter, but the focus is now on, as the title suggests, the creative use of experience. In this, her approach was basically that of a pragmatist, though she emphasized-and placed higher value on-the creative rather than the verifying aspects of experience. Follett's is a philosophy of engagement and encounter. Through thinking about our experiences, questioning their meaning and truth and looking to the people we are, it is possible to learn. But there can be dangers in this process if approached narrowly.

2013 Reprint of 1951 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. "Creative Experience" first published in 1924, reflected Mary Parker Follett's growing interest in the problems of industrial relations and the realm of management. She has the same commitment to democracy and encounter, but the focus is now on, as the title suggests, the creative use of experience. In this, her approach was basically that of a pragmatist, though she emphasized-and placed higher value on-the creative rather than the verifying aspects of experience. Follett's is a philosophy of engagement and encounter. Through thinking about our experiences, questioning their meaning and truth and looking to the people we are, it is possible to learn. But there can be dangers in this process if approached narrowly.