Mary Parker Follett, called the "prophet of management" by Peter Drucker, was a pioneer in management thinking. Her 1918 and 1924 books laid the groundwork for many later theorists who stressed human relations over the time-and-measurement approach of Taylor and the Gilbreths.
She wrote, in the 1920s: "It seems to me that whereas power usually means power-over, the power of some person or group over some other person or group, it is possible to develop the conception of power-with, a jointly developed power, a co-active, not a coercive power." The concept of "power-over" versus "power-with" became a common theme in feminism from the 1970s, and remains in use today.
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