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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 539,094 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Mary Parker Follett is the 588th most popular philosopher (down from 519th in 2019), the 2,100th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,725th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular American Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Mary Parker Follett ranks 588 out of 1,081Before her are Jean Améry, Zisi, Eknath, Abhinavagupta, Jan Patočka, and Mechthild of Magdeburg. After her are Shneur Zalman of Liadi, Alexander of Hales, Kanada, Constantin von Tischendorf, Silvia Federici, and Maurice Blondel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Mary Parker Follett ranks 66Before her are Ernst Linder, Alice Keppel, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ahmed Shawqi, Noe Zhordania, and S. P. L. Sørensen. After her are Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr., Paul P. Harris, Archduke Ferdinand Karl of Austria, Louis Couturat, Wilhelm Schmidt, and Otto von Lossow. Among people deceased in 1933, Mary Parker Follett ranks 35Before her are Kenji Miyazawa, Hipólito Yrigoyen, Raymond Roussel, Anagarika Dharmapala, Paul Painlevé, and Anna de Noailles. After her are Yamamoto Gonnohyōe, Henri Duparc, Pierre Paul Émile Roux, Roscoe Arbuckle, Hasan Prishtina, and Nitobe Inazō.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mary Parker Follett ranks 2,100 out of 18,182Before her are Ellison Onizuka (1946), Ethel Barrymore (1879), Gabriel Macht (1972), Cyd Charisse (1922), Peter Benchley (1940), and Sequoyah (1770). After her are Gloria Grahame (1923), Paul Michael Glaser (1943), John Philip Sousa (1854), Joe Pantoliano (1951), Jeffrey C. Hall (1945), and Sheldon Adelson (1933).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In United States

Among philosophers born in United States, Mary Parker Follett ranks 22Before her are Murray Bookchin (1921), Saul Kripke (1940), Arthur Danto (1924), Charles W. Morris (1903), Jonathan Edwards (1703), and Reinhold Niebuhr (1892). After her are Jerry Fodor (1935), William Heard Kilpatrick (1871), Alvin Plantinga (1932), Michael Walzer (1935), Ted Nelson (1937), and Helen Parkhurst (1886).