Adaptive Space: How GM and Other Companies are Positively Disrupting Themselves and Transforming into Agile Organizations

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The Need for Adaptive Space

You’ve got to disrupt or be disrupted.

—JOHN CHAMBERS OF CISCO

Organizations are under assault. If they don’t adapt, they will die. We see this happening all around us. We are in a time of tremendous transformation, unlike anything we have seen in over a century. In this environment we need to do something that most of us have not been trained to do and our organizations have not been designed for: we must learn to adapt. As John Chambers, executive chairman of Cisco, says: “If you don’t reinvent yourself, change your organization structure; if you don’t talk about speed of innovation—you’re going to get disrupted. ...