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I recently visited a college's campus bookstore. As I headed down one aisle, a large copy of Diffusion of Innovation by E. M. Rogers caught my eye---"strange," I thought, because I was in the agriculture section. Mary Lynn Manns and I heavily reference this publication in our book, Fearless Change, because Rogers introduces a model that segments a "normal" population, based on its response to innovation, into the following categories: Innovators, Early Adopters, Early Majority, Late Majority, and Laggards. I was intrigued by the accompanying text for the course, a small paperback called Two Ears of Corn by Roland Bunch. The title is from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels: Whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2010 | 10.1145/2493288.2493301 | Proceedings of the 17th Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs |
Keywords | DocType | Citations |
fearless change,roland bunch,accompanying text,small paperback book,agriculture section,sustainable development,early adopters,e. m. rogers,mary lynn manns,late majority,early majority,jonathan swift,methodology,epistemology,patterns,evidence,pattern language,design patterns | Conference | 1 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
2.25 | 1 | 2 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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| Linda Rising | 1 | 218 | 30.68 |
| Karl Rehmer | 2 | 2 | 3.63 |