What the Chief Talent Officer of General Motors Learned From Jack Ma and Crazy HorseMichael Arena, Chief Talent Officer at General Motors, shares his thoughts on how to maximize any company's social capital.

ByDavid Meltzer

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Michael Arena, Chief Talent Officer at General Motors and author ofAdaptive Space: How GM and Other Companies are Positively Disrupting Themselves and Transforming Into Agile Organizations, sits down with David Meltzer to discuss how to drive efficiency in large and small businesses by building bridges between team members.

The pair converse about the role of collective belief in a workplace, the necessity of challenging the status quo, and how to make social arrangements in an organization, so that team members energize each other. Michael also talks about the lessons he's learned about social capital from leaders such as Jack Ma and Crazy Horse.

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Co-Founder of Sports 1 Marketing, Speaker, Author and Business Coach

David Meltzer, co-founder of Sports 1 Marketing and host of Entrepreneur's podcast, “The Playbook”, is a Top 100 Business Coach, global public speaker and three-time international best-selling author who has been honored by Variety as “Sports Humanitarian of the Year”.

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