Leading Blog

APRIL 24, 2019

What About Leadership? Does the essence of leadership really change in the digital age? The authors rightly note, “Digital leadership is just leadership, albeit in a somewhat new environment.”. That’s quite hard for people who have really only had one quiver [sic] in their leadership bow, which is command and control.

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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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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Early adopters and mainstream customers have different needs, and both need to be tested. Success with early adopters can be misleading and give founders unwarranted confidence to expand. Success with early adopters can be misleading and give founders unwarranted confidence to expand. False Positives.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 9, 2019

Anything less from its leadership, and a business misses opportunities and risks losing ground in the marketplace. There’s no need for leaders to be early adopters of technology, though that would be great. Technology Adept. However, they must be practiced in the use of technology and not harbor any fear of it.

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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. He has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Selling Magazine, the New York Times, and Business Week, and is a popular leadership contributor at Forbes.com.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

MAY 17, 2021

Read the rest of this post at thoughtLEADERS, LLC: Leadership Training for the Real World. Sarah Stebbins, author of From Fire to Water: Moving Through Change: Six Elements for Personal Resiliency (CLICK HERE to get your copy). A silly question, perhaps, but an important one to answer when experiencing or initiating a change.

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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 from Within

JANUARY 8, 2024

Change agents, peer leaders and early adopters, communicate, listen, and demonstrate desired behaviors. Lead from within: Successful change leadership starts with understanding people’s needs and ends with sustained commitment and action. Executive sponsors share the vision, rationale, and commitment.

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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. And these values must be communicated by and lived out through the behavior of the leadership. For Gandhi it was salt. For Paul O’Neill of Alcoa, it was safety. The keystone is critical.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 19, 2013

As individuals, we take our cues from the early adopters and we learn what to do – and what not to do. With leadership it is about style. Russell Raath is a senior engagement leader with Kotter International , a change leadership firm that helps businesses accelerate strategy implementation in their organizations.

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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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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 19, 2023

In the video, I describe a time-tested tool, Kurt Lewin’s Force field analysis that we use quite frequently in our leadership programs. 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.

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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. Who are the willing? They are the few who raise their hand in support of any initiative – start with them.

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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. See Also: Mind the M.I.T.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 24, 2017

If too much emphasis is placed on strategy compared with execution by the leadership, then it leads to lower levels of performance because they become occupied with crafting it rather than executing it. People who are early adopters of the execution need encouragement to take risks.

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Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

As an experienced leadership coach, I’ve helped countless clients navigate the challenges of integrating AI within their organizations. 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.

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Lead on Purpose

JULY 29, 2009

However, five weeks ago I purchased an iPhone 3GS (granted, I’m not an early adopter) and the experience has been phenomenal. In only a few short weeks I have come to depend on its functionality for my work in product management and product marketing. Thank you for your questions.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 26, 2012

This will appeal to both early adopters (who can spread the word) and customers not being served by current DVD rental businesses. No late fees, as a business model where the renter must replace each returned DVD benefits from tardy returns. ? See what happened there?

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Management Excellence

OCTOBER 19, 2011

Moore, the renowned high-tech strategist and author, perhaps best known for his book, Crossing the Chasm, a guide to helping firms move from early adopters across this fateful and often fatal canyon, is back with his latest book, Escape Velocity-Free Your Company's Future from the Pull of the Past. Geoffrey A. Geoffrey A.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 18, 2016

I have watched the profession go through lots of very savvy efforts to pigeonhole employees into categories or styles or features in order to make leadership more prescriptive. What do I do with the redneck under my leadership who likes Mozart more than George Jones? Leadership is not about the pursuit of assumption.

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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). Innovation Leadership innovation kaplan market research prototyping' Create an agenda (list off the 4-5 key things you want to discuss, understand, or test).

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Mills Scofield

JUNE 9, 2014

Business Model: As an early adopter and co-creator of Alex Osterwalder’s Business Model Canvas (BMC) , I use it the most. The corporate designation B-Corp allows a company to blend doing well and doing good in a for-profit structure.

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Chartered Management Institute

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Find out how senior managers can transform culture by refreshing and re-energising their workforce But, says Dr Chan Abraham CMgr FCMI, founder and CEO of Leadership International, when it comes to cultural change, middle managers wield unrivalled influence.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 19, 2014

Corporate Culture Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management'

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

It’s no secret that most companies value leadership over just about anything else. However, in my experience, there’s another component more important than strong leadership—an element that rarely gets the spotlight, because it’s all about not stepping into the spotlight. That’s not to say leadership isn’t important.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

Ignore the early adopter critics that never have enough to play with. THE LEADERSHIP GAP. Additional Reading you might enjoy: 12 Successful Leadership Principles That Never Grow Old. A Leadership Manifesto: A Guide To Greatness. The Deception Trap of Leadership. Wayne Gretzky. Ignore them. Steve Case.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Changing Behavior Embracing Change Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management Explaining Change'

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Chartered Management Institute

MARCH 4, 2012

You can target early adopters. Starting small, such as a BPM project for a particular business unit, will mean that it is easier define the scope and stick to it, and makes for more consistent leadership--all of which are common challenges facing any IT project including BPM. Complexity is much more manageable.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Make your mistakes among friends and early-adopters. They are your early warning radar. The post Start a Business at Any Age first appeared on Skip Prichard | Leadership Insights. Hold tight to your mission, values, and goals, but do not cling to your original assumptions about marketing and sales.

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Anese Cavanaugh

OCTOBER 11, 2009

A couple of weeks ago, at the Inc 500 Conference in DC, I was having dinner with my good friend and colleague Ari Weinzweig (co-founding partner and CEO of Zingerman’s Community of Businesses and early adopter of Bootist Leadership ) when I felt like I was going to choke.

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Chartered Management Institute

JULY 25, 2023

Case Study: How effective communication led to Tyler Grange’s four-day week triumph Written by Mark Rowland Share Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to LinkedIn Share via email The leadership team at consultancy Tyler Grange were trying to determine the best way to work when they decided to join the four-day week trial.

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Change Starts Here

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Some of us are “innovators” or “early adopters” whilst others are “laggards” The vast majority of us sit in the middle of the population as “The early or late majority” Again this is a people led model of change. Style: what is the leadership style? Staff: who works there?

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Steve Farber

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Businesses like restaurants and microbreweries–those with strong brand loyalty that can quickly connect to a large crowd of customers and supporters–have been early adopters. So here’s the million-dollar question: Is it for you?

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

It’s not generally a technology problem; it’s a leadership problem. What we say is, long before Netflix showed up, long before any of these disruptives showed up, the leadership of these companies knows full well that there are technology disruptors that are on the horizon. DAVID: Yeah. In this case, it’s not.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

3 May Dear all, On a recent episode of the FT ’s Working It podcast, Ann Francke discussed how to turn around a toxic workplace culture and the importance of holding senior leadership to account. Here are CMI's highlights from 2022 and 2021. You can listen back here.) You can learn more in FE News. Enjoy the rest of your week.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The Leader : Rejects traditional structures, seeks inspirational role models, tests leadership ideas. No startup finds traction without at least one Evangelist, the person who frames your purpose and story – whether that’s pitching for funding, attracting talent or gathering a critical mass of early adopters and followers.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 25, 2021

The Leader : Rejects traditional structures, seeks inspirational role models, tests leadership ideas. No startup finds traction without at least one Evangelist, the person who frames your purpose and story – whether that’s pitching for funding, attracting talent or gathering a critical mass of early adopters and followers.

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