"Miss Follett was not a “business woman,” in the sense of having actually managed any sort of business. But her lucid and illuminating ideas about organization were of priceless interest and value to the many industrial leaders and students of human relations problems, organization and politics with whom she came in contact. Her conceptions were in advance of her time. They are still in advance of current thinking. But they are a gold-mine of suggestion for anyone who is interested in the problems of establishing and maintaining human co-operation in the conduct of an enterprise. They have the added advantage of being presented with remarkable simplicity and clarity."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Academics from the United StatesPolitical scientists from the United StatesHarvard University alumniBusiness theorists from the United StatesPeople from Illinois
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
p. xi
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_C._Metcalf
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Henry C. Metcalf
Henry Clayton Metcalf (February 22, 1867 – August 1942) was an early American organizational theorist, Professor of Political Science at in Massachusetts and Chairman of Tufts College, known from his publications on management with Ordway Tead and Lyndall Urwick.
5 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Henry C. Metcalf →
Related Quotes
"Fifteen years ago Follett expounded a philosophy of management that even to-day is a generation ahead of practice, an…"
"Mary Parker Follett was a prominent business philosopher of the period, who agreed with Sheldon about the need to emp…"
"Briefly stated, the Follett philosophy is that any enduring society, any continuously productive industrial organizat…"
"Follett was always preoccupied with the dynamic view of organization, with the thing in process, so to speak. Authori…"
"For him delicious flavors dwell In books as in old Muscatel."
"And in the evening, everywhere Along the roadside, up and down, I see the golden torches flare Like lighted street-la…"
"Song like a rose should be; Each rhyme a petal sweet; For fragrance, melody, That when her lips repeat The words, her…"
"The hunter catches a dreadful prey, the seaman steers his ship into an unspeakable harbor, the plowman sows and reaps…"
"You are the king no doubt, but in one respect, at least, I am your equal: the right to reply. I claim that privilege …"
"When Hector heard that challenge he rejoiced and right in the no man's land along his lines he strode, gripping his s…"