Title: Ancient recipes for change management: critical factors towards entrepreneurial consciousness and cognition

Authors: Vasileios T. Georgiadis; Lazaros I. Sarigiannidis

Addresses: Department of Management Science and Technology, International Hellenic University, Agios Loukas, 65404, Kavala, Greece ' Department of Management Science and Technology, International Hellenic University, Agios Loukas, 65404, Kavala, Greece

Abstract: The paper attempts the emergence of three crucial parameters influencing human behaviour in organisational changes. The notions of luck, education and leadership are revised by three ancient thinkers, forming a unique ethics framework, featuring possibilities of generating alternative perspectives during change projects. More specifically, conceptual aspects are addressed and selected examples from Aristotle's and Xenophon's philosophy are deployed, combined with the works of tragic poet Sophocles. Under their scope, the direction of luck, the maturation of consciousness through proper training and the adoption of a controllable 'flexible' leadership are recruited to prevent discouragement throughout change. The urge for an ethical background is pointed out, in order to facilitate the process in every stage, leading to a successful outcome. The mining of lessons learned and the development of stochasticity (thoughtfulness), deriving from the philosophical and dramaturgical approaches, improve judgement, preparing everyone for change implementation, by increasing alternatives in decision making.

Keywords: consciousness; ethics; leadership; luck; organisational change; philosophy.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSCM.2021.122870

International Journal of Strategic Change Management, 2021 Vol.7 No.4, pp.350 - 373

Accepted: 02 Mar 2022
Published online: 13 May 2022 *

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