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 an early adopter adopts an idea, it’s been thought through.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 19, 2014

Smith and O''Connell go on to explain that: Given the importance of peer influence, people need to perceive that respected peers are adopting change.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Smith and O''Connell go on to explain that: Given the importance of peer influence, people need to perceive that respected peers are adopting change.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

We began selling this new smart fan option and had several thousand excited early adopters. We were also a little too smitten with our technology, and assumed it would immediately appeal to the “early majority” – who as described in E.M.

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