Book : Adaptive Space How Gm And Other Companies Are...

-Titulo Original : Adaptive Space How Gm And Other Companies Are Positively Disrupting Themselves And Transforming Into Agile Organizations

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McGraw Hill

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Lack of Agility is the kiss of death. Position your company to succeed in world of change.To edge out the competition in today’s disruptive environment, you need to ensure that your company is agile that it can respond to change instantly and effectively. Because fast and furious change is the only thing you can count on in business today.Network expert Michael Arena helped enable GM’s legendary turnaround. In these pages, he explains how you can transform your own company through the concept of adaptive space. Based on hundreds of interviews and the author’s own groundbreaking study of dozens of organizations spanning a variety of industries, Adaptive Space shows how to position your company for today and for the future by enabling creativity, innovation, and novel ideas to flow freely among teams, across departments, and throughout the company. Using GM as the main case study along with the stories of other highly adaptive organizations, like Apple, Amazon, Disney, and Gore Arena provides a model you can follow to reinvent your company. It’s about inspiring employees to explore new ideas, empowering the most creative people and teams to spread their ideas across the organization, and operationalizing the entrepreneurial spirit so adaptability is set in stone. Hesitation is a killer in today’s business landscape. With Adaptive Space, you have everything you need to confront disruption with smart, confident actions and seize the valuable opportunities that come with change. From the Publisher Michael J. Arena, Ph.D., Chief Talent Officer for GM, has helped enable the companys ongoing transformation. He is the winner of the 2017 Walker Prize from People Strategy, and his work has been cited in the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Business Insider, Sloan Management Review and Chief Executive Magazine. Mr. Arena has also served as a visiting scientist at MIT. He teaches at Penn and is a coach in the Stanford dSchool. adaptivespace From the Back Cover Adaptability has never been more critical, and this book takes a practical look at what it takes to build that capability in your organization.--Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Give and Take, Originals, and Option B with Sheryl Sandberg I have known, and coached, for years that relationships are essential to organizational success. Adaptive Space will help you elevate this understanding to a whole new level by masterfully articulating how specific network connections facilitate innovation and agility. This book is an essential read for anyone whos business is facing disruption. --Keith Ferrazzi, New York Times #1 bestselling author of Whos Got Your Back and Never Eat AloneAdaptive Space is the best book Ive read about what it takes for big organizations to innovate as a way of life. Michael Arena blends rigorous research, success and failure stories, and his experience as a senior executive to show how to build companies where people uncover and weave together the best ideas, challenge conventional thinking and methods, and develop promising innovations in focused and energized teams. Even better than that, Arena shows how companies can keep releasing new and better offerings into the marketplace--rather than developing promising innovations that are crushed by dysfunctional people and internal politics.--Robert Sutton, Stanford Professor and author of bestsellers including Scaling Up Excellence and Good Boss, Bad BossPerfectly stated by Michael Arena, In todays rapidly changing environment, lack of agility is the kiss of death. Adaptive Space gives real insight into how mammoth companies such as General Motors were able to disrupt their strategy paradigm to thrive in a rapidly changing marketplace. His insights are based on extensive research, as well as real-life, roll-up-your-sleeves work experiences. A great read for leaders looking to disrupt and innovate.--Melissa Howell