Lead Change Blog
JULY 8, 2019
Rogers categorizes coworkers into five groups, according to how they deal with accepting new ideas: The innovators are always in for a new idea and are quick to adopt; often also quick to drop an idea in favor of a new, more attractive looking idea. If the change is good, the early innovator will come along anyway. Who to Target.
Lead Change Blog
DECEMBER 18, 2014
Students who were brave early adopters followed them, filling their plates and heading for a table to show off to their buddies, all with the admiration of the instructors. People do not resist change. They resist the prediction or perception of pain or discomfort over which they have no control.
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Strategy Driven
MARCH 20, 2021
A Resistant Culture. This kind of resistance is possible across different levels of the enterprise, from upper management to rank-and-file banking staff. Also worth explaining to your colleagues is that the tech will put you in a highly competitive position: that of an early adopter.
LDRLB
APRIL 10, 2014
Here’s how to start: Identify the leading edge customers (customers that think creatively, ask for new things, or are your early adopters). What is often true in human nature is also true of corporate culture: we resist stirring up the status quo.
Change Starts Here
OCTOBER 9, 2012
Common sense calls for enlisting the early adopters first to gain momentum while keeping the more difficult converts at bay. However difficult it may be to deal with their resistance up front, involving them early may be less painful than trying to have them jump into the project after much work has been done without their input.
The Horizons Tracker
JULY 7, 2019
In some aspects of technology, there are clear signs that millennials are actively resisting the march of technology. It revealed that millennials have been early adopters of smart technology, but they are also the most nervous age group when it comes to the privacy implications of having an array of smart devices in the home.
Chartered Management Institute
NOVEMBER 5, 2012
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. To often social technologies have been viewed as a risk by those in HR, and technology is resisted in the workplace as a result.
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