CO2

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

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.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 29, 2019

Individuals may fall into three categories: early adopters, late adopters, and resistors. However, to move your change agenda forward, the early adopters and late adopters are your change agents and will help bring the resistors along the change continuum.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 8, 2024

Change agents, peer leaders and early adopters, communicate, listen, and demonstrate desired behaviors. Executive sponsors share the vision, rationale, and commitment. Senior leaders reinforce the change’s importance, while managers and supervisors interpret the change for their teams.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2024

Clearly and concisely, it focuses on the nine actions leaders need to take in order to successfully preside over the transition to a more AI-centric future that will lead to growth for all—companies and workers—and avoid the kinds of mistakes that author David De Cremer has seen many early adopters make.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 26, 2016

” Early Adopter vs. Early Innovator. People might describe me having “an early adopter problem,” but I disagree (unless they are trying to describe my audience and not me): being an early innovator is not the same thing as being an early adopter.

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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. Change Management Army Jungle Survival School Camp Sherman Early Adopters military Vietnam' There was much, much more.

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Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Celebrate early adopters and AI-driven achievements within your team. Make sure the training is accessible and tailored to different skill levels within the organization. Foster an AI-Friendly Culture: Encourage a culture of innovation where the use of AI is seen as a positive step towards growth.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 19, 2023

It’s all about finding the early adopters and getting them to help you provide social proof and spread the word to encourage others to try out new behaviors. One of the best ways to do this is to find peers and colleagues working to lead similar change efforts on their teams.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 21, 2023

Seeing this, the director helped the team identify and establish best practices from early adopters. So, they were understandably reluctant to have a dip in their commissions while using an unfamiliar process. How to Hold a Micro-Motivation, Confidence Burst Day Here’s a step-by-step process for creating a confidence burst day.

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Chartered Management Institute

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

If you can secure a critical mass among the middle management cohort and persuade some to be enthusiastic early adopters of the purpose and message around cultural change, this will percolate through the rest of the organisation,” says Dr Chan.

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Engaging Leader

JULY 17, 2013

I was not one of social media’s early adopters. I finally got on Facebook in 2009, roughly the same time as your grandmother. Not until 2011. All those hashtags and short URLs confused me. BTW, my first-ever tweet: [link] I quickly discovered that social media isn’t rising so quickly because the tech is sexy. […].

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Early adoption. Perhaps unsurprisingly, many of these investments centered around things such as remote working technology and associated technologies, such as cybersecurity and cloud. The study also revealed innovations in non-technical fields, such as the introduction of new management practices and business models.

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Next Level Blog

AUGUST 25, 2020

When the COVID quarantine began, the early adopters/adapters on his team realized that since connecting with people is the central part of their job, they were going to have to find new ways to do it.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 9, 2019

There’s no need for leaders to be early adopters of technology, though that would be great. How else could he have endeavored to create something as seemingly preposterous as a phone that could play music, take pictures and access the Internet–and make a go of it? Technology Adept.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 2, 2021

The early adoption of any innovation comes with inevitable risks that can complicate its diffusion. Uncertain spread. For instance, the paper cites the example of the L-1011 and DC-10 aircraft.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The research examines the Product Hunt platform, where entrepreneurs can test out their concept among early adopters, who offer feedback on whether the product is good or not. Recent research from Harvard Business School suggests this might even extend to the feedback they receive.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Acknowledge early adopters and celebrate their results All these activities will help your team successfully implement the new software. And, they are one-time activities. You don’t need to schedule training repeatedly, but you do need to make sure you get that done sometime in the next month.

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CEO Blog

JANUARY 30, 2013

I often see products that sell lots in the first few week - this is normal early adopter. Lots of apps, lightning fast surfing etc. The device looks like a winner - but will it be? I think the next 90 days will tell. Then the sales either grow exponentially or fizzle. Largely depending on how well the market accepts the product.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2024

Early adopters of renewable energy infrastructure can enjoy a competitive edge, cutting down on operational costs while supporting sustainable practices. This economic shift is especially relevant in regions with high energy import costs, where renewable energy can significantly reduce national expenditure on energy imports.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Should you take the leap as an early adopter, or is it wiser to wait and observe? Response uncertainty is the challenge for managers in determining how to react and the consequences of these actions to the many uncertainties surrounding AI. Should your focus be on automation and cost-cutting, or augmenting human capabilities?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2024

Because the market has reached a difficult point in the technology-adoption lifecycle. Specifically, automakers and policymakers alike can no longer make plans based on what early adopters of EVs want.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 24, 2019

While older generations have much to learn from the millennials, the fact that they are early adopters doesn’t mean they necessarily know how to adapt that technology in an organizational setting. The focus for all needs to be on lifelong learning. Even for the digital natives, time marches on.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 29, 2012

When a new industry surfaces, the early adopters (first-movers) set-up shop, validate proof of concept, carve out their niche, and build very strong, if not in some cases, category dominant brands. Many successful bloggers today were not necessarily first-movers, but rather fast-followers able to leap frog the early adopters.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 16, 2022

The firms were chosen in part due to their propensity to be early adopters of technology. By 2010, around 75% of the sample had adopted some form of predictive analytics, although most of these firms only used the tools sporadically, despite higher intensity use being linked with greater returns.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2024

Norway, and other Scandinavian nations were early adopters of EVs, and Germany and Japan have long been automotive powerhouses, their EV markets have lagged in mass market adoption compared to China. More than half of the electric vehicles (EVs) on roads worldwide are found in China. While the U.S.,

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 14, 2023

“Communicating to a wider audience seems therefore to be more of a developing norm with enthusiastic early adopters than a widely exercised practice. This is emphasized by the fact that only 12% of respondents reported to having achieved an outstanding result using innovative dissemination channels.”

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Strategy Driven

MAY 9, 2024

She’s always looking to advance her skillset and believes strongly in the early adoption of new technology. In addition to writing, she works as a digital media consultant and content marketer, driving online traffic for her clients.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 18, 2020

The researchers set out to explore what set the early adopters apart from their peers, and trawled through the database of academic papers held by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. While many researchers jumped on the opportunity, however, this enthusiasm was far from universal. Creating impact.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 16, 2023

UNCTAD’s analysis indicates that developing countries must act swiftly to capitalize on this opportunity and adopt a development trajectory that leads to more diversified, productive, and competitive economies.

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Chartered Management Institute

JULY 25, 2023

I realised that if we went first, we’d get quite a lot of downsides from being an early adopter, but we get every upside. “It wasn’t so much that it was a competition or a race [with the four-day week],” he says. “I If we were last, you get some downsides and no upsides because everybody else is already done it.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 23, 2021

Early adopter companies using AI-powered recruiting software have seen their cost per screen reduced by 75%, their revenue per employee improve by 4%, and their turnover decrease by 35%. Screening resumes and shortlisting candidates to interview is estimated to take 23 hours of a recruiter’s time for a single hire.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 5, 2022

There have also been fears among some early adopters that they provide information too easily, and therefore inhibit the critical thinking skills of users. It’s also important to clearly document how the data submitted to the chatbot will be managed, especially if it is being used to discuss potentially sensitive topics.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 10, 2021

Successful AI/ML implementation has clear benefits for early adopters — As organisations look to the future, IT and operations are the leading areas where they plan on adding AI and ML capabilities.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 25, 2021

Early adopters of the internet will remember just how odd our early engagements with the web were. Often, as an early adopter, you would type in a URL from a piece of paper you’d scrawled it upon, and this would take you to a website with a background that made overly heavy use of graphics.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 2, 2015

Empower Willing Change Leaders: The most successful change efforts include the early adopters and use internal, front-line change agents to sway the majority. Change Barriers Removed to Keep Momentum: When barriers arise that block progress, leaders are quickly made aware and actions are taken to ensure momentum is maintained.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Once these early adopters are moving product, others will not be able to blame anyone but themselves for missing targets. One blames poor salesmanship while the other blames the product. The easiest way to sidestep this situation is to find people to play "hero" during the initial roll-out and focus on them.

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Leading Blog

MAY 3, 2019

The alternative you present must be better not just for the believers but for those outside the early adopter group. “Yet to succeed, you must go beyond grievance to identify an affirmative vision for what you would like to be different and then identify a single, fundamental change that will bring that vision about.”

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