383: Driving Adaptability in your Organization with Michael J. Arena

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🗓️ 20 December 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

GM’s Chief Talent Officer Michael J. Arena explores the idea of ambidextrous leadership to help lead your organization in its current state and in its future – at the same time.

You’ll Learn:

1) Ways to positively disrupt the way you work

2) Concrete ways to mine the ideas of your organization

3) Why conflict is essential to the evolution of ideas

About Michael

Michael is the Chief Talent Officer for General Motors (GM), where he launched GM2020, a grass roots initiative designed to enable employees to positively disrupt the way they work, which was highlighted in Fast Company and Fortune. Michael is the author of the book Adaptive Space, which is based on a decade long research initiative that won the 2017 Walker Prize from People + Strategy.

Items Mentioned in this Show:

Michael’s website: https://www.adaptivespace.net
Michael’s book: Adaptive Space
Research: Agility: It rhymes with stability
Research: What Creates Energy in Organizations?
Book: Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success by Adam Grant
Self-assessment: www.NetworkRoles.com

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0:00.0	Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.
0:10.0	Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.
0:14.0	With your host, Pete McKitis.
0:19.0	Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 383.
0:22.0	We are talking about how to drive all the more adaptability
0:25.7	into your organizations.
0:26.9	You'll learn, one, ways to positively disrupt
0:29.2	the way you work, two, concrete ways to mind the ideas
0:32.3	of your organization, three why conflict is so
0:35.2	essential for the evolution of ideas. So if you'd like to take a look at the show notes or the
0:38.9	transcript or the links to albums we've referenced you'll find that over at
0:41.4	awesome at your job.com slash ep 383 and why you're at awesome at your job
0:45.6	dot com I hope you'll check out some of our cool stuff such as the gold nugget
0:48.1	email list which gives you summary insight from Michael and all the guests
0:51.5	who've gone before him and after.
0:53.0	You can check out the notes, all the summary insight, wisdom,
0:57.0	in something you can read in about two to five minutes.
1:00.0	That's called the Gold Nuggets, over to awesome at your job.com.
1:02.0	Now here's Michael's story.
1:04.0	Michael is the chief talent officer for General Motors, GM if you will,
1:07.4	where he launched GM 2020, a grassroots initiative designed
1:10.0	to enable employees to positively disrupt the way they work,
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