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Choose Change!

Lead Change Blog

In this post I focus on one point: selecting the right change ambassadors using Rogers’ innovation theory. The early adopters first take a critical look at the proposal before deciding whether it’s a good idea or not. ” Innovators are typically poor ambassadors. To reiterate: the innovators will be on board as well.

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How Early-Adopter Companies Are Thinking About Apple Vision Pro

Harvard Business Review

But what are early adopter companies really doing with Apple’s new hardware, and what do they hope to get out of these investments? The piece examines efforts from Lowe’s, e.l.f. Cosmetics, Hanifa, and the PGA Tour to understand these companies’ strategies.

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Four FREE Giveaways for Early Adopters

LDRLB

A FREE 30-minute Audio Interview with Jennifer Anastasof f, the CEO of Fuse Corps, a nonprofit featured in the book for its work creating social innovation through cross-sector partnerships. Fuse Corps works by pairing mid-career professionals and entrepreneurs with city and state governments in order to drive social innovation.

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The Perils of Being an Early Innovator

Lead Change Blog

Some time ago it was brought to my attention that I’m an innovator — the type of person whose ideas are generally pretty far ahead of the curve, before the market is ready for my innovation. ” Early Adopter vs. Early Innovator. I don’t know. Why is this? Are we all mad? Do we all seek glory?

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How Can Innovation Be Better Disseminated?

The Horizons Tracker

In a recent article, I highlighted some of the challenges involved in translating investment in technology and innovation into productivity improvements across the economy. “Communicating to a wider audience seems therefore to be more of a developing norm with enthusiastic early adopters than a widely exercised practice.

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Spotting Where Innovations Are In The Diffusion Lifecycle

The Horizons Tracker

In 1962 Everett Rogers famously described the journey innovations go on as they travel from obscurity to mass market success and through to obsolescence. It’s a process that remains largely observed to this day and being able to spot where an innovation is on the lifecycle is pretty valuable. Spreading change. Uncertain spread.

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Innovators and Early Adopters

CO2

The Left-Siders by Simon Sinek ( blog ). The world is a bell curve. Class room test scores, employee performance in a company or how many people really, really like you. No matter the population you’re studying, they always fit neatly across the standard deviations of the famous bell curve.