ADAPTIVE SPACE
How GM and Other Companies are Positively Disrupting
Themselves and Transforming into Agile Organizations
Lack of Agility is the kiss of death. Position your company to succeed in a world of disruption.
Adaptive
Space
Adaptive Space reveals how companies are transforming themselves into responsive, agile organizations suited for the age of disruption by enabling individual employees to connect and create across networks—the best way for any company to unleash creative potential from within.
The book highlights four key network roles—brokers, connectors, energizers and challengers—that all organizations need in order to enable “Adaptive Space.” These roles help to facilitate the movement of ideas and information across the firm, and therefore, enable the organization to positively disrupt itself.
Adaptive Space requires four types of connections...
DISCOVERY
DEVELOPMENT
DIFFUSION
DISRUPTION
Michael J. Arena, Ph.D. is an author of the groundbreaking research on Adaptive Space, which won the 2017 Walker Prize from People + Strategy. He is a leading expert in organizational network analysis and his work has been cited in the Wall Street Journal, Chief Executive Magazine, Harvard Business Review, Business Insider and Sloan Management Review. Arena is also the Chief Talent Officer for GM and has played a critical role in the company’s transformation. He launched GM2020, a grass roots initiative designed to enable employees to positively disrupt the way they work, which was highlighted in Fast Company. Arena teaches in Penn’s Masters in Organizational Dynamics program and acts as a design thinking coach within the Stanford dSchool. He also spent two years as a visiting scientist within MIT’s Media Lab and served as a Senior Vice President of Leadership Development at Bank of America.
