Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim. We attain unity only through variety. Differences must be integrated, not annihilated, not absorbed.
That is always our problem, not how to get control of people, but how all together we can get control of a situation.
There are three ways of dealing with difference: domination, compromise, and integration. By domination only one side gets what it wants; by compromise neither side gets what it wants; by integration we find a way by which both sides may get what they wish.
Management is the art of getting things done through people.
Leadership is not defined by the exercise of power but by the capacity to increase the sense of power among those led. The most essential work of the leader is to create more leaders.
Coercive power is the curse of the universe, coactive power, the enrichment and advancement of every human soul.
We should never allow ourselves to be bullied by an either-or. There is often the possibility of something better than either of these two alternatives.
Give your difference, welcome my difference, unify all difference in the larger whole – such is the law of growth. The unifying of difference is the eternal process of life – the creative synthesis, the highest act of creation, the at-onement.
One of the greatest values of controversy is its revealing nature. The real issues at stake come into the open and have the possibility of being reconciled.
Imitation is for shirkers, like-minded-ness for the comfort lovers, unifying for the creators.
In crowds we have unison, in groups harmony. We want the single voice but not the single note; that is the secret of the group.
Part of the task of the leader is to make others participate in his leadership. The best leader knows how to make his followers actually feel power themselves, not merely acknowledge his power.
While leadership depends on depth of conviction and the power coming therefrom, there must also be the ability to share that conviction with others.
The conflict of chemistry we do not think reprehensible. If we could look at social conflict as neither good nor bad, but simply a fact, we should make great strides in our thinking.
Concepts can never be presented to me merely, they must be knitted into the structure of my being, and this can only be done through my own activity.
What people often mean by getting rid of conflict is getting rid of diversity, and it is of the utmost importance that these should not be considered the same.
When leadership rises to genius it has the power of transforming, of transforming experience into power. And that is what experience is for, to be made into power. The great leader creates as well as directs power.
Democracy is self-creating coherence.