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

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Embrace the Conflict

For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, and debate.

—MARGARET HEFFERNAN

On December 21, 1937, the world’s first full-length animated feature film, produced in Technicolor, premiered at the Radio City Music Hall in Los Angeles. At its conclusion, Walt Disney waited for what seemed like an eternity, as the star-studded crowd momentarily remained silent. Then, in a roaring outburst, the crowd leaped to its feet and erupted into a standing ovation. The audience was emotionally stirred, with many fighting back tears, for they had just witnessed brilliance. In his review of the movie, ...