Papers & Publications

Comment by Joseph Arthur Christian on October 16, 2011 at 7:50am

Hello, everyone!!! 

My first submission:

Total Quality Concepts tries to embody the resurrection of Mary Parker Follett's subjective side of management. Without a balance of the objective and subjective sides of management we are left with the objective side only (historically, the “Taylor-side”). In other words, we are left with sowing for gain without the consideration of character.

When we rejected Mary Parker Follett's recommendation for a subjective addition complementing and completing our understanding of the business world, we began a cycle of “greed”, sabotaged our future, short-circuited our own prosperity and inadvertently shot ourselves in the foot so that nationally - 50 years later - we are now bleeding out. Let me tell you why I believe this to be true.

 

“The seed of gain reaps the fruit of greed.”

Now, at the end of the “Greed cycle” Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are just the tip of the iceberg.

 

T.S. Elliot said, "We must not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time."

Total Quality Concepts is attempting to create an Alphabet for servant leadership.

Now let's write the encyclopedia. Please send me your inputs!!!

Counselor62656@yahoo.com

Comment by Joseph Arthur Christian on October 16, 2011 at 8:17am

Number Two?

The Creation of a Servant-Leader  

Total Quality Concepts creates a paradigm where servant-leadership qualities of character can be created in the minimum amount of time.  This step-by-step workbook contains information that will foster a servant-leadership approach.  It takes up the process at the inception of a business concept and delivers the reader at the goal of servant-leadership.

Can a servant-leader be created?  Total Quality Concepts believes that the answer to this question is, “Yes”.  Our journey to servant-leadership takes us through the lands of, “actions”, “habits” and finally, “attitudes” and creates the construct for the development of a true servant-leader. We believe that Servant-leadership is an attitude! 

We begin with the concept of the formation of the idea for a business.  How does that concept coalesces in our minds?  What are the mental steps that we take as the business concept is forming and growing toward a business plan?

Also, “every system contains the seed in its own destruction”.  What is that seed?  How can we identify it?  How can we remove it?  Further, how can we be sure that the objective ideas for our business concept are balanced with the subjective energies involved in the creation of a healthy business atmosphere, climate and culture?

Total Quality Concepts answers these questions by providing step-by-step instruction on how the “perfectly balanced business” can be created.

The key ingredient for spiritually balancing a business is having a Servant-Leader at the helm.  The Servant-Leader becomes the agent for significant change toward the redefining and redevelopment of our business systems while also becoming the agent of the creation of the businesses atmosphere, climate and culture. 

Total Quality Concepts goes directly to the attitude level and addresses specific areas that unpack the characteristics that comprise the unique individuality of the Servant-Leader.  In other words, these concepts - once understood and applied to the character – help to produce the unique, distinctive, and individual qualities of a Servant-Leader -- at the attitude level.

Your input/response/inspiration?

Counselor62656@yahoo.com

Comment by Albie M. Davis on October 16, 2011 at 1:51pm

Hi Joseph,

I think I read somewhere on this network that you can't make the MPF Boston Conversations gathering coming up next week.  We shall miss you and your enthusiastic entrance into the MPF network!  Hopefully we'll have some kind of report to share..

Follett says so frequently, "We need more study on . . (fill in the blanks.)"  I think she would be pleased about your years of study and most curious about your about-to-be book on the Servant-Leader.    

My first response to your Servant-Leader training approach is definitely a strong interest.  When I hear of providing "step-by-step instruction on how the 'perfectly balanced business' can be created, I pause for a minute, slightly troubled.  Can striving for permanent perfection actually be the "seed of destruction"?

But I have to remind myself all the time that my first thoughts must not be my final thoughts!  After 25 years of reading Follett, you obviously have something special in mind. I should listen more; speak less.  So, tell us more!  Do you have some examples to share?

Albie

 

 

 

Comment by Albie M. Davis on October 16, 2011 at 2:14pm

Hi John Sarvey,  I didn't mean for the comments above to appear on this page for papers and publications.  My apologies, but I thought I was responding to a general forum.  Albie

Comment by Joseph Arthur Christian on October 16, 2011 at 2:30pm

Albie,

The insights are coming so "hot and heavy" that I have to step away to enjoy my Green Bay Packers!!! (for a guy you must admit that that is a bit unusual!!!)

 

Hundreds of insights - cause-and-effect diagrams - flowcharts - grafts - exponential curves - woof!!!

 

One of the "curses" (if you want to call it that) of having a servant's heart is that you must respond to a real need! I have waited 25 years for that need to materialize and now am so excited that I am about to jump out of my skin...

 

It is MORE that insights - what I have been given (to share) is a living message.  I consider it a "live birth" (25 years is some gestation period, hum!!!).  Right now I strongly desire associates, like yourself, to share, refine, perfect, sandpaper, etc. with me.  (By the way the "perfection" about which I speak is a perfect "BALANCE" between objective/subjective input in the business experience w/r/t attitude...

MANY of these perfect balances exist in nature (acid/alkali; oxygen/carbon dioxide, etc. We call  them symbiosis.  We missed the attitude balance because attitudes are invisible to their owners.  We missed Mary's input (perhaps as a prophetess) because we were so quick to concentrate on making a buck that we inadvertently placed the value of money above the value of human life.

Please let me get back to my Beloved Aaron Rodgers for now. I will digest your Email content and respond in a day or so...  (sound fare?)

I cannot thank you enough for your Email.  You are truly open, as we all must be to progress and it is a privilege and honor to know you.

 

Thanks again,

 

Joseph

P.S. John! Me too!!!  Oops?

Comment by John Sarvey on October 17, 2011 at 3:08pm

Joseph,

By chance have you put any of your thoughts into a paper/essay about Follett? If so, email it to me, and I'd be glad to add it to the list of papers on this page.

Comment by Joseph Arthur Christian on October 19, 2011 at 10:23am

John,

John,

The series is ready.  Please call me at 205-215-2040 at your convenience, Sir. I want to run EVERYTHING BY YOU BEFORE it is submitted to the group... Thank you, John.

Joseph

Comment by Sébastien Damart on October 19, 2011 at 5:30pm

Today, 

I went at the Schlesinger Library in the Harvard Square at the Radcliffe Institute. I have made photos of Essays that Mary Parker Follett wrote while attending at Radcliffe College between 1888 and 1898 (to be checked). I'll bring them with me tomorrow evening for those who want (bring a USB key with you).

Comment by Joseph Arthur Christian on October 20, 2011 at 4:57am

Awesome...  Thank you.

Comment by Colin Boyd on May 23, 2012 at 8:48pm

Hello I would like to inquire on an article provided within this site by Emmanuel Groutel  styled "Le leadership follettien: un modele pour demain? " I am would like to read this article but find I am not able to due to my lack of fluency in the authors language.  Can anyone please assist me in my quest to obtain a version of this article in the English language?  I look forward to your assistance and direction.  Regards Colin

Comment by Margaret Stout on August 27, 2012 at 7:07am

Hello all!

I hate to bring up a small problem, but the posting of pdfs of published papers is an infringement of copyright laws. Might I suggest creating and maintaining a separate list of publications on Follett with links to the publisher's website? I have at least 25 articles in my files that could at least be listed as a bibliography from which people can then access their own library resources. 

On that note, I have requested that the paper I sent to Albie before it was in print be removed from the page because it is now available from Administration & Society. 

Many thanks for the collective efforts to keep Follett's work fresh and readily available to all!

Comment by Sébastien Damart on August 27, 2012 at 7:33am

Hi Margaret,

You are right. We have to distinguish between papers that we can share with everyone (for example, working papers) and papers that have been published. In this second case we should provide the DOI link and not the paper.

I don't know how we could easily create a kind of list of our relevant publications links: a new discussion thread ? Matthew, an idea ?

Comment by John Sarvey on August 27, 2012 at 3:18pm

In our case, posting of pdfs of published papers probably falls under the Fair Use provisions of Copyright case law, at least on most of the dimensions for determining Fair Use. We are not commercial. Our purposes are primarily educational, research, etc. We'd be on stronger ground if we restricted access to these files to members of the network rather than them being viewable by non-members.

Anyways, just to play it safe, we might as well adopt a practice of posting links rather than the actual files whenever possible. We can begin to do this with any existing PDF for which we can find a public link. Also, moving forward, whenever we post new published articles, we can use the link rather than upload the PDF.

Comment by Matthew Shapiro on August 27, 2012 at 4:07pm

Good idea, John!

Comment by Margaret Stout on August 28, 2012 at 8:22am

John, I'm sorry to say that being on a journal's editorial board, having worked closely with our library on web posting even for courses with restricted access, and not even being able to upload pdfs to my own faculty web page, your interpretation is, unfortunately, incorrect per all consulted academic experts on copyright law. So, your "play it safe" alternative is exactly the right approach. Many thanks for sorting this out!

Comment by John Sarvey on August 28, 2012 at 11:50am

I went through the list of writings on this page to try to determine which ones were published in journals.

I changed the links for the following items, in most cases the link to the journal where it appeared. If any of you who have submitted papers that are posted here and want me to change the link to something else. Please let me know.



Le leadership follettien: un modèle pour demain ?, published in Revue Management & Avenir, June 2010.
Groutel, Carluer & Le Vigoreux

Changed to: http://www.cairn.info/resume.php?ID_ARTICLE=MAV_036_0284



Reconciling the Carrot & the Stick: An Intellectual History of Integrative Bargaining in 20th Century American Organizational Relations
Jennifer Jones-Patulli, July 2011

Changed to: http://ustpaul.ca/upload-files/CRC/Working_paper_series_1_-_Jennife...


Women & Forgotten Movements in American Philosophy: The Work of Ella Lyman Cabot & Mary Parker Follett, published in Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, Winter 2008
John Kaag

Changed to: http://www.american-philosophy.org/events/documents/Kaag%20Summer%2...

This article is posted in several places on the internet in PDF form. I assume that John Kaag would prefer a link where people can actually retrieve it. If I post a link to Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, they will not be able to. John, I defer to you.


American Power: Mary Parker Follett and Michel Foucault
Scott L. Pratt, February 2011

Changed to: http://rauli.cbs.dk/index.php/foucault-studies/article/view/3207/3401

Comment by John Sarvey on August 28, 2012 at 11:54am

Meanwhile, on the copyright and fair use question. There are four main tests. We do well on the first two. The item where posting articles runs the most afoul is about the portion of the work. In our case, it's 100%. So, that's not good. Then, there is the fourth test which might be the most important for us. It has to do with financial cost to the author/publisher. If there is an article in which the intent of the publisher is that you would have to pay for it, and then we post it so that it's available for free, that's a problem. However, if the author/publisher makes it available for free, such as on their own website, then some experts say that constitutes implied permission for others to also post it.

Comment by Margaret Stout on August 28, 2012 at 2:33pm

Right, and since nearly all academic journals charge for a pdf if you do not have a paid subscription, our counsel determines that we cannot provide it on our own websites, let alone others. 

Comment by Judy Whipps on September 18, 2012 at 7:51am

Consider the following essays as well:

Follett's Pragmatist Ontology of Relations: Potentials for a Feminist Pers... Banerjee, Amrita. Journal of Speculative Philosophy: A Quarterly Journal of History, Criticism, and Imagination22. 1 (2008): 3-11.

Whipps, Judy D. “Feminist-Pragmatist Democratic Practice and Contemporary Sustainability Movements: Mary Parker Follett, Jane Addams, Emily Greene Balch and Vandana Shiva” in Contemporary Feminist Pragmatism. Ed Maurice Hamington and Celia Bardwell-Jones (Routledge 2012)

 

Comment by Margaret Stout on September 18, 2012 at 8:41am

Hello! I have created a Forum where we can continue to post links to articles about Follett or that apply her theory to practice in a variety of arenas. The Forums allow file uploads...

Comment