Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 24, 2013

In any organization, there’s always going to be about 10% early adopters, 80% that will eventually get on board if you can convince them and show them how, and 10% that are just going to dig their heels in and refuse to try anything new or different. For those, a “carrot and stick” approach is needed.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 1, 2019

The approach had also proven surprisingly popular with the academic community whose courses were being offered, and this has resulted in the recent launch of Coursera for Campus, a new platform that allows universities to easily augment their own offerings with MOOC courses offered by rival universities.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Of course, neither company would have grown if the founders hadn’t also embraced one of the most famous entrepreneurial archetypes – the Maker. Airbnb and Uber, for example, were created by Outsiders who had no institutional knowledge of the hotel or taxi industry – and that was a big part of their edge. They could imagine a new world.

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Change Starts Here

OCTOBER 9, 2012

During the course of any change initiative, you may come across those whom you prefer to keep at arm’s length from the change. Common sense calls for enlisting the early adopters first to gain momentum while keeping the more difficult converts at bay. Some are too busy to fully commit the personal energy required to participate.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

We caught up with three of them – Keji Moses , Daniel Chapman and Folashade Bakare – who started their courses in September. We will of course continue to provide in-depth analysis of the latest changes and developments in management thinking. We hope you’ll enjoy the new approach – we’d love your feedback!

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 25, 2021

Of course, neither company would have grown if the founders hadn’t also embraced one of the most famous entrepreneurial archetypes – the Maker. Airbnb and Uber, for example, were created by Outsiders who had no institutional knowledge of the hotel or taxi industry – and that was a big part of their edge. They could imagine a new world.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Of course, neither company would have grown if the founders hadn’t also embraced one of the most famous entrepreneurial archetypes – the Maker. Airbnb and Uber, for example, were created by Outsiders who had no institutional knowledge of the hotel or taxi industry – and that was a big part of their edge. They could imagine a new world.

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Of course, to do this properly will require a change of mindset from HR as well. Scale things – Once you have both some successful results on a small scale AND emotional buy-in from the key early adopters across your organisation, you can then look to scale things. You have to walk before you can run.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

In a better and cheaper world, you use the term big bang disruption or the sort of shark fin to describe what this model looks like, that you scale up to those early adopters becoming the majority way quicker than you can predict nowadays. Google, of course, is a prime example as well. In this case, it’s not.

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Chartered Management Institute

MARCH 4, 2012

Of course, with these technological advancements in what BPM can achieve come an equal increase in the complexity of the people related hurdles that managers must overcome to ensure successful execution. You can target early adopters. Complexity is much more manageable. You're not spreading resources too thinly.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Of course, people should always be respectful—“Golden Rule” and all that. Innovation increasingly blurs technical and marketing distinctions between “ lead users ” and “early adopters.” Your lead users or early adopters may be technically brilliant.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

They encourage viral marketing through early adopters. The first step to introducing something new is reducing the risk enough to attract early adopters. The first customers to adopt a new solution in any village are, by definition, early adopters.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

People are commonly referred to as ‘buyers,’ ‘shoppers,’ ‘payers,’ ‘non-responders,’ ‘early adopters,’ and ‘eyeballs.’ The systemic nature of marketing strategy depersonalizes their audience by using language that groups customers into segments and tar¬gets.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

The difference with analytics, of course, is that you don’t stop with the intuition — you test the hypothesis to learn whether your intuition is correct. Of course, as with hypotheses, it’s important to confirm that your intuitions about where to apply analytics are actually valid. But how about with big data?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2014

Of course, identifying Moneyball-like metrics and boosting individual performance remains vital. Of course, the MLB, NBA, NFL and FIFA are hardly perfect analogues to either gigantic global enterprises or Silicon Valley start-ups. Sports teams, of course, compete in physical time and space.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

But a failure of this test wouldn''t necessarily mean that Dropbox wouldn''t work — it could mean that the quality threshold was higher than expected, or that Digg users weren''t ideal early adopters, or that some other news event had distracted users from watching or sharing the video. Learning from MVPs.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

Distribution barriers are not unique to India, of course. In the US, innovative companies can bypass delivery problems by working directly with large consumer-facing hubs such as Wal-Mart (old), Amazon (new), or iTunes (new, new), which allows them to quickly and efficiently reach early adopters. Even in the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

In our study of more than 30 pilots in early-adopter companies, we found five common business processes improved by machine-reengineering. If the early adopters are any indication, machine-engineering is a leap forward in the evolution of business processes. Machine-reengineered systems can improve these interactions.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

Those insights came from the research Adobe had done to develop the platform, as well as the data the platform was already generating from early adopters. But DPR has widely shared the knowledge and practices it has gained, in venues ranging from industry forums to a co-taught course at Stanford University.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

But a failure of this test wouldn’t necessarily mean that Dropbox wouldn’t work — it could mean that the quality threshold was higher than expected, or that Digg users weren’t ideal early adopters, or that some other news event had distracted users from watching or sharing the video. Learning from MVPs.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2012

This is, of course, hardly a new point. Its marketing budget was mainly focused on affluent people who liked being early adopters. Many successful innovations work because they create a new market. A few years ago a European leader in the consumer electronics industry was looking for new growth opportunities.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2015

And, while this should, of course, be accompanied by constructive, privately delivered criticism , various studies and articles, including this recent HBR piece , have touted the benefits of positive reinforcement. Managers and leaders need to be early adopters. Get everyone on board.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2011

A few are entrepreneurial start-ups desperate for closer ties with their early adopter clientele. The common problem, of course, is that too many firms prefer customers and clients sharing success stories while downplaying problems, mistakes and challenges. Many of these events go well; a few of them go great.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2018

In contrast to health care, aviation has been an early adopter of decision-support technology — the “fly by wire” flight-control computers that prevent unsafe operation of the aircraft and reduce maintenance costs and pilot workloads.

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Change Starts Here

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I booked myself onto a course. The ADKAR® change management course by Prosci. The Prosci model: The course was great and I found it really helpful. It got me thinking… How does the Rogers adoption model link to the Kubler-Ross model? Did the early adopters move through the Kubler-Ross change curve faster?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2013

Our users — current and future — are, of course, on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn, but when they want to discuss stocks , and the software like ours that they use to inform their trading decisions, they're on domain-specific social networks. My company, ChartIQ, builds software to analyze and annotate stock charts.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

Now of course, I pretend Twitter struck me as an irresistibly good idea the first time I heard it and that I was an early champion. I have forgotten and concealed the early days, the days in which I had no clue. Whatever our first reaction, we now like to pretend we were early adopters and enthusiasts.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Of course, there will always be employees who don’t need help developing any of these attitudes or skills: they’re the tech enthusiasts and early adopters who spend their evenings and weekends goofing around with new technology, too.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

Making something wildly profitable will of course attract the attention of financial markets, and thus increase the chances it will scale effectively. Early adopters of microfinance wanted to prove that it was a commercially viable product, deserving space in an investor’s portfolio alongside real estate and the stock market.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2013

Of course the cool kids don''t want to hang out there any more. As someone who was a pretty early adopter, for a grownup, but doesn''t spend much time on Facebook now (I''m more of a Twitter guy), I''ve been an eager consumer of the Facebook-is-doomed literature. Clearly, it can''t be both.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2017

They both work with vendors, of course, but have a strong focus on open source tools for internal development. We’ve both followed these companies for a long time—dating back to their early work with expert systems. Do most of the work yourself.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

internet companies have scaled internationally, of course (Facebook and Google are two obvious examples). As with the markets it had entered earlier, the company launched a service targeted at early adopters, and then iterated quickly to add features to attract a wider audience. before 2010, and in only 50 countries by 2015.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

internet companies have scaled internationally, of course (Facebook and Google are two obvious examples). As with the markets it had entered earlier, the company launched a service targeted at early adopters, and then iterated quickly to add features to attract a wider audience. before 2010, and in only 50 countries by 2015.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2013

Many of us still run this way, of course, but for how much longer? Benjamin Franklin was an early adopter, though his self-tracking experiments grabbed fewer headlines than his apocryphal kite-flying ones. Now we can lace up a pair of "smart" sneakers and instantly shift from running by feel to running by metrics.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2014

And, of course, that it will free up staff to do more “human” work. Something like five years ago we created the Aloft brand to appeal to the tech-savvy, the early adopters, the next-generation traveler — the people who wait in line for the next smartphone to be released.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Strong leaders may inspire people to join their cause, but it’s those early hires and early adopters – the fledgling community who believes in a company’s ideals – that will make or break a young business. It is of course, but a leader can’t do much without followers.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2016

Of course, businesses have to respect this forum by refraining from inundating users with promotional messages. Instead of starting a conversation with users about your latest product launch, be available when early adopters start using it and having issues. In fact, conversations should rarely be led by the company.

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