Driving Radical Change

Domagoj Hruška
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Domagoj Hruška: University of Zagreb

Chapter 4 in Radical Decision Making: Leading Strategic Change in Complex Organizations, 2015, pp 63-83 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Hruška explores dynamics of radical change by focusing on two issues: mobilization for radical actions and leader’s character. First, Hruška explores the driving forces behind radical decisions: deep conviction in the soundness of the radical way, commitment to the pursuit of the new governing metaphor, extreme emotional disturbance and the willingness to take risks. Special attention in understanding radical change is put on the radical leader’s identity. Hruška argues that the only appropriate way of looking at the object of change is a perspective of loyalty without particular interests which, in the continuum of affection and rationality, he calls irrational optimism.

Keywords: emotional disturbance; governing metaphor; irrational optimism; leader’s identity; mobilization for radical actions; risk taking (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137492319_5

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