...Power is the ability to do. Like Fromm and Miller, she sees power over as a destructive form of power: "Genuine power is not coercive control but co-active...the enrichment and advancement of every human soul" (Follett 1924, xii). Power over is not genuine power because it is ultimately dysfunctional. It stifles...

...Power should be "coactive" power, as Mary Parker Follett argued 70 years ago, not "coercive" power: "Coercive power is the curse of the universe; coactive...the enrichment and advancement of every human soul" (1978, p. xiii). Indeed, women managers and consultants, beginning with Mary Parker Follett, have frequently...

...Experience, p. xii: "Our task is not to learn where to place power; it is how to develop power. . . . Genuine power can only be grown, it will slip from...the enrichment and advancement of every human soul." 5. Cf. Creative Experience, p. 184: "Some trade unionists are beginning to see the finer function of...

...difference J I 'Power with' coactive power Legitimacy Figure 3.1 Follett's diagram of power view was that 'Coercive power is the curse of the universe; coactive...the enrichment and advancement of every human soul' (1924: xii). Given the nature of Foucault's (1977) argument that contemporary forms of power are engaged...

...distilled from ambition and talent — always go hand in hand. The trick is to know how to develop power. Genuine power can only be grown; it will slip from every arbitrary hand. Influence peddling is a double-edged sword — used in a disciplined and a focused manner, it will...