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Choose Change!

Lead Change Blog

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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Corporate Culture And Changing Behavior

Eric Jacobson

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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Corporate Culture And Changing Behavior

Eric Jacobson

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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Do Your Customers Actually Want a “Smart” Version of Your Product?

Harvard Business Review

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.