PHILOSOPHER

Mary Parker Follett

1868 - 1933

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Mary Parker Follett (3 September 1868 – 18 December 1933) was an American management consultant, social worker, philosopher and pioneer in the fields of organizational theory and organizational behavior. Along with Lillian Gilbreth, she was one of two great women management experts in the early days of classical management theory. She has been called the "Mother of Modern Management". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mary Parker Follett has received more than 573,598 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Mary Parker Follett is the 647th most popular philosopher (down from 588th in 2019), the 2,230th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,098th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular American Philosopher.

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  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.65

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  • 2.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Mary Parker Follett ranks 647 out of 1,267. Before her are Pierre Charron, Barlaam of Seminara, Gaius Marius Victorinus, Friedrich Albert Lange, Bharadwaja, and Jonathan Edwards. After her are Ernst Moritz Arndt, María Zambrano, Johannes Bugenhagen, Eduard Zeller, Michael Walzer, and Louis Lavelle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Mary Parker Follett ranks 69. Before her are Archduke Ferdinand Karl of Austria, Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr., Empress Dowager Longyu, Noe Zhordania, Aleksa Šantić, and Alice Keppel. After her are Henry Bergman, Lin Sen, Otto von Lossow, Francesco Saverio Nitti, Paul P. Harris, and Stanisław Przybyszewski. Among people deceased in 1933, Mary Parker Follett ranks 37. Before her are Henry Royce, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Raymond Roussel, Anna de Noailles, Anagarika Dharmapala, and Yamamoto Gonnohyōe. After her are Carl Correns, Haim Arlosoroff, Nitobe Inazō, Friedrich Zander, Hasan Prishtina, and Roscoe Arbuckle.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mary Parker Follett ranks 2,230 out of 20,380. Before her are Fredric March (1897), Robert Todd Lincoln (1843), Carly Simon (1945), Martin Kove (1946), George Floyd (1973), and Ray Conniff (1916). After her are Albert King (1923), Jason Momoa (1979), Terry Riley (1935), James Tolkan (1931), Patricia Cornwell (1956), and Chris Brown (1989).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United States

Among philosophers born in United States, Mary Parker Follett ranks 23. Before her are Tom Regan (1938), Arthur Danto (1924), Charles W. Morris (1903), Nancy Fraser (1947), Reinhold Niebuhr (1892), and Jonathan Edwards (1703). After her are Michael Walzer (1935), Alvin Plantinga (1932), Jerry Fodor (1935), James Mark Baldwin (1861), William Heard Kilpatrick (1871), and Helen Parkhurst (1886).

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