Tempered Radicals
Written by Stuart Haden on June 12, 2025
Tempered radicals, Meyerson and Scully argue, are individuals who identify with and are committed to their organisations and also to a cause, community or ideology that is fundamentally different from, and possibly at odds with, the dominant culture of their organisation.
On the one hand radicalism stimulates them to challenge the status quo. Whereas on the other their temperedness reflects the way they have been toughened by challenges. Possibly being angered by what they perceive as injustices or ineffectiveness,
