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This week we throw back to Episode 3 of The Thinking Leader to Bryce's conversation with Barry O'Reilly. In this episode, Bryce talks to Barry O'Reilly about the need for leaders to “unlearn” things that are no longer valid or no longer serve them and explains how major corporations have used his unlearning process to achieve greater success. Barry is a business advisor, entrepreneur, and author of the book Unlearn: Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary Results. He is also the co-author of the international bestseller: Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale. Barry is a speaker, writer, and contributor to The Economist, Strategy+Business, and the MIT Sloan Management Review. He also is a member of the faculty at Singularity Universitythe founder of ExecCamp, the entrepreneurial experience for executives. His mission is to help purposeful, technology-led businesses innovate at scale. In this episode: What is Unlearning? The difference between a decision-making process and a decision-making practice Why so many digital transformations fail How to be a more agile, resilient leader What to do if you're not the one in charge of an organization that needs to unlearn Mentioned in this episode: Read Barry's blog See what Barry has to say on Twitter Subscribe to Barry's podcast Join Barry's newsletter Sign up to the Red Team Thinking Community - Use the coupon code THINKINGLEADER for a free 30-day trial: https://community.redteamthinking.com/checkout/general-membership Want to find out if you're a Red Team Thinker? Click here to take a free assessment and get your personalized report: https://www.redteamthinking.com/rttassessment Visit our website: https://redteamthinking.com Watch this episode on YouTube: www.red-team.tv Follow us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/redteamthinking/ Connect with Bryce: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brycehoffman/ Connect with Marcus: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcusdimbleby/ Bestselling business author Bryce Hoffman and agility expert Marcus Dimbleby talk about decision making, strategy, resilience and leadership with some of the world's best CEOs, cognitive scientists, writers, and thinkers in this weekly podcast. Each episode offers new ideas and insights you can use to become a better leader and a better thinker – because bad leaders react, good leaders plan, and great leaders think!
Barry O'Reilly is the author of the best-seller “Unlearn: Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary Results”. He also co-authored best-seller “Lean Enterprise” — part of the Eric Ries series. Barry is also Co-Founder and Chief Incubation Officer at venture studio, Nobody Studios, and faculty at Singularity University. Barry brings insights from his career at the intersection of business model innovation, product development, organizational design, and culture transformation. He describes how we can learn but not make progress and how some discomfort enables breakthroughs. He explains what questions can help you identify where you get in your own way, and what small iterative changes can do for you. KEY TAKEAWAYS [02:22] Barry was interested in business but a new university tech course takes him by surprise. [04:49] Barry moves to San Francisco to work for CitySearch.com which almost merges with Elon Musk's first venture, Zip2. [05:39] The power of technology in business becomes clear to Barry. [06:28] When Barry finishes his degree his pre-signed job with an economic downturn. [08:24] Barry moves to Edinburgh and starts building games for Sony, Sega, and Disney. [09:20] Barry and team find out they have no idea how to scale when the business takes off. [10:12] A 6-month sabbatical after 3 years working is Barry's preferred working rhythm. [11:44] Australia offers Barry an interesting opportunity in e-learning and ‘game' businesses. [13:02] On to London, Barry joins pioneers in the agile movement and shares the genesis story. [14:34] Working at ThoughtWorks is a mad experience and a huge accelerator for Barry. [15:11] The company was contrarian. It had no-rules, but a strong culture, setting the bar for how people showed up. [16:12] Barry was inspired by Ricardo Semler, the young CEO of a Brazilian manufacturing company. [18:17] Why have people report to you if they know what they're doing? [19:29] ThoughtWorks was 30% female engineers—publishing this data openly which supported diversity. [21:16] Barry co-authors Lean Enterprise his first book. [24:03] Barry's ‘unlearning' Aha! And Eureka moments in a Sichuan restaurant in San Francisco. [25:40] Diagnosing limiting beliefs, ‘Unlearn' as a system of experimentation. [27:00] Asking the questions to find out where you're stuck, what you're afraid of doing. [28:04] Barry offers piercing diagnostic questions--what 3-4 ideas do these questions raise for you? [28:42] Barry's personal example of using the Unlearn method. [29:18] Figuring out what the outcome is you actually want. [30:42] After defining the goal, experimentation starts with small uncomfortable shifts in behavior. [33:48] Leaning into discomfort is one way to find breakthroughs. [35:01] A senior bank executive used unlearning to stop making any decisions! [38:10] Barry trains with BJ Fogg an innovators of behavior design, author of Tiny Habits. [39:24] Defining your vision and future is key to finding focus and moving forward. [43:22] IMMEDIATE ACTION TIP: You don't just have one shot, you actually have many. If something didn't go how you would like, that wasn't IT. It was just a moment. Take the lessons from it—look for some hard lessons rather than to other folks as to why it didn't work. Then dust yourself down and prepare for the next opportunity because it WILL arrive. RESOURCES Barry O'Reilly on LinkedIn Barry O'Reilly on X @barryoreilly BarryOReilly.com Barry's books: Unlearn: Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary Results Lean Enterprise: How High-Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale. QUOTES (edited) “Every single person that walked through that door was bright, talented, and capable. Culture has a huge impact on the way people feel comfortable and how it can also cause an adverse reaction.” “I strive not to have anyone to report to me. I want them to own their work. I want people to be engaged and focused on their work. I'll be there to provide feedback, guidance, mentorship, whatever it is. That's my responsibility.” “If you don't make diversity visible people will not know it's a place that they can be. They need to see people like them in leadership roles.” “A lot of Unlearn is a system of experimentation. You are diagnosing limiting behaviors or beliefs and reframing them as outcomes that you want, and then experimenting to drive those outcomes.” “The trick is doing uncomfortable things but making them smaller.” “You never learn stuff, if you don't create the space for it to happen.” “What can hinder us from creating an exciting future for ourselves, each one of us is the habits of the past.”
Barry O'Reilly Barry O'Reilly is an entrepreneur, business advisor and author who has pioneered the intersection of business model innovation, product development, organizational design, and culture transformation. Barry is the co-founder of Nobody Studios, a crowd-infused, high-velocity venture studio with the mission to create 100 compelling companies over the next 5 years. Barry is author of two international bestsellers, Unlearn: Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary Results, and Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale—part of the Eric Ries series, and a HBR must read for CEOs and business leaders. He writes for The Economist, and is faculty at Singularity University. On today Show we Talk about: What is Agile and how is it used? What is Nobody Studios and what are the goals it wants to accomplish? How is one able to live all around the wrong while progressing their career? What was it like to know Elon Musk when he just founded his first company Zip2? Connect Barry Website https://barryoreilly.com/ Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/barryoreilly/
Welcome to another episode of The Thinking Leader podcast, brought to you by Red Team Thinking. In this episode, your host Bryce Hoffman talks to Barry O'Reilly about the need for leaders to “unlearn” things that are no longer valid or no longer serve them and explains how major corporations have used his unlearning process to achieve greater success. Barry is a business advisor, entrepreneur, and author of the book Unlearn: Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary Results. He is also the co-author of the international bestseller: Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale. Barry is a speaker, writer, and contributor to The Economist, Strategy+Business, and the MIT Sloan Management Review. He also is a member of the faculty at Singularity Universitythe founder of ExecCamp, the entrepreneurial experience for executives. His mission is to help purposeful, technology-led businesses innovate at scale., and in today's episode, he shares the core of Top 10 Takeaways: [1:30] Barry explains the concept of unlearning. [7:23] Capital One, a case study of successful unlearning. unlearn. [11:45] Bryce and Barry talk about the difference between a decision-making process and a decision-making practice. [13:50] Why so many digital transformations fail. [16:19] Use crises as springboards for positive transformation. [23:00] All you can do when confronted with chaos is act. [24:15] Becoming a more agile, more resilient leader. [25:35] Signs you need to unlearn and adapt. [28:18] What do you do if you're not the one in charge of an organization that needs to unlearn? [35:30] How to start unlearning. Mentioned in this episode: Brought to you by Red Team Thinking Unlearn: Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary Results, by Bary O'Reilly Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale, Jez Humble, Joanne Molesky, and Barry O'Reilly Read Barry's blog See what Barry has to say on Twitter Subscribe to Barry's podcast Join Barry's newsletter Sign up for Bryce's newsletter Connect with Bryce on Linkedin Contact Bryce on Twitter
Welcome to another episode of The Thinking Leader podcast, brought to you by Red Team Thinking. In this episode, your host Bryce Hoffman talks to Barry O'Reilly about the need for leaders to “unlearn” things that are no longer valid or no longer serve them and explains how major corporations have used his unlearning process to achieve greater success. Barry is a business advisor, entrepreneur, and author of the book Unlearn: Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary Results. He is also the co-author of the international bestseller: Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale. Barry is a speaker, writer, and contributor to The Economist, Strategy+Business, and the MIT Sloan Management Review. He also is a member of the faculty at Singularity Universitythe founder of ExecCamp, the entrepreneurial experience for executives. His mission is to help purposeful, technology-led businesses innovate at scale., and in today's episode, he shares the core of Top 10 Takeaways: [1:30] Barry explains the concept of unlearning. [7:23] Capital One, a case study of successful unlearning. unlearn. [11:45] Bryce and Barry talk about the difference between a decision-making process and a decision-making practice. [13:50] Why so many digital transformations fail. [16:19] Use crises as springboards for positive transformation. [23:00] All you can do when confronted with chaos is act. [24:15] Becoming a more agile, more resilient leader. [25:35] Signs you need to unlearn and adapt. [28:18] What do you do if you're not the one in charge of an organization that needs to unlearn? [35:30] How to start unlearning. Mentioned in this episode: Brought to you by Red Team Thinking Unlearn: Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary Results, by Bary O'Reilly Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale, Jez Humble, Joanne Molesky, and Barry O'Reilly Read Barry's blog See what Barry has to say on Twitter Subscribe to Barry's podcast Join Barry's newsletter Sign up for Bryce's newsletter Connect with Bryce on Linkedin Contact Bryce on Twitter
In this bonus episode, we will go behind the scenes of our show partner Bizimply Michael will be talking to Founder Gerard Forde and CEO Conor Shaw of https://www.bizimply.com/?utm_source=partner&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=mavericks (Bizimply) who will share their journeys in hospitality and big tech companies. Gerard will share the why and the story behind Bizimply that he started back in 2015. How they went from start-up wilderness to scale up tech company. You will find out that they are obsessed with the industry and how to solve many of its problems by ensuring that frontline managers are empowered to run their businesses like clockwork and spend more time on the shop floor developing their people. Along the way, we dive into the culture, digitalisation, prediction for the future of hospitality and much more. Books from the episode: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B007NC24KW/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=B007NC24KW&linkCode=as2&tag=hospitalit010-21&linkId=0f666248e2b0e4e37821dcfc14556354 (Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ben-Jerrys-Double-dip-Values-Money/dp/0684834995/ref=sr_1_2?crid=19OEYNTX71NBI&dchild=1&keywords=ben+and+jerry&qid=1620076104&s=books&sprefix=ben+and+jerry%2Cstripbooks%2C157&sr=1-2 (Ben and Jerry's Double-dip: Lead with Your Values and Make Money Too) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pour-Your-Heart-Into-Starbucks/dp/0786883561/ref=sr_1_1?crid=GWTDLVSJPFJ8&dchild=1&keywords=howard+schultz&qid=1620076018&s=books&sprefix=Howard+shu%2Cstripbooks%2C164&sr=1-1 (Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One) https://www.amazon.co.uk/When-Cultures-Collide-Leading-Across/dp/147368482X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3JYZ8LXN8BS2U&dchild=1&keywords=when+cultures+collide&qid=1620075904&s=books&sprefix=when+cultures+%2Cstripbooks%2C158&sr=1-1 (When Cultures Collide: Leading Across Cultures ) https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1260143015/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1260143015&linkCode=as2&tag=hospitalit010-21&linkId=c1ffc7eaeb9570cfd6dc13c103feec46 (Unlearn: Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary Results) Connect with the podcast: https://colossal-designer-2784.ck.page/40ada1483a (Join the Hospitality Mavericks newsletter): https://rb.gy/5rqyeq (https://rb.gy/5rqyeq) More episodes for you to check out https://www.hospitalitymavericks.com/podcast (here) A big thank you to our sponsor Bizimply who are helping progressive leader and operators making every shift run like clockwork! Head to our website at https://www.bizimply.com/?utm_source=partner&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=mavericks (www.bizimply.com) or email them directly at advice@bizimply.com. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy Support this podcast
Jennifer K. Hill speaks with best-selling author and consultant, Peter Economy. Peter shares tips from his latest book Wait, I'm the Boss?!? In the interview, Peter emphasizes the importance of compassion as a leader and offers suggestions on how to delegate and create thriving teams. inc.com/author/peter-economy Peter Economy is a best-selling business author, ghostwriter, developmental editor, and publishing consultant with more than 100 books to his credit (and more than 3 million copies sold). Peter’s latest book is Wait, I’m the Boss?!? – published by Career Press. He also helped create Unlearn: Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary Results; Everything I Learned About Life I Learned in Dance Class; The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness; Managing For Dummies; Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product; The Management Bible; Peter Isler’s Little Blue Book of Sailing Secrets; and many more. He’s the Leadership Guy on Inc.com and served for many years as Associate Editor for Leader to Leader magazine—published by the Frances Hesselbein Leadership Forum in New York City. Peter taught MGT 453: Creativity and Innovation as a lecturer at San Diego State University, is on the National Advisory Council of The Art of Science Learning, and is a founding member of the board of SPORTS for Exceptional Athletes. A graduate of Stanford University (with majors in Economics and Human Biology), Peter has worked closely with some of the nation’s top business, leadership, and technology thinkers, including Jim Collins, Frances Hesselbein, Barry O’Reilly, Peter Senge, Kellie McElhaney, Jeff Patton, Marshall Goldsmith, Marty Cagan, Lolly Daskal, Guy Kawasaki, Emma Seppala, William Taylor, Jim Kilts, Jean Lipman-Blumen, Stephen Orban, Ken Blanchard, and many others.
Gerry and Andy discuss the new plans for Design Politics 2020 in the light of the coronavirus situation, a bumper crop of books in Andy's Book Corner for your reading now that you're stuck at home all day, a study in how Canadians go to the toilet, and Gerry gets out his guitar and sings... No, really. Please help us with our conference survey! https://thisishcd.typeform.com/to/Kwhmnw This is HCD Design Politics Conference site Power of Ten with Andy Polaine EthnoPod with Jay Hasbrouck Bringing Design Closer with Gerry Scullion ProdPod with Adrienne Tan Getting Started in Design with Gerry Scullion Talking Shop with Andy Polaine and Gerry Scullion Decoding Culture with Dr. John Curran Andy's Book Corner Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging by Afua Hirsch From Notes to Narrative: Writing Ethnographies That Everyone Can Read by Kristen Ghodsee, which is really a good book about writing in general. Great for design researchers. Hat tip to Chris Hayward for this recommendation. Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation by Andrew Marantz – well-written and depressing at the same time. Unlearn: Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary Results by Barry O’Reilly. Lots of great insights personal and organisational change. (Barry is, in fact, Irish – Andy got it wrong in the podcast). Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know by Malcolm Gladwell. Beyond The Prototype: A roadmap for navigating the fuzzy area between ideas and outcomes by Douglas Ferguson. Connect with This is HCD Follow This is HCD us on Twitter Follow This is HCD on Instagram Sign up for our newsletter (we have lots of design giveaways!) Join the practitioner community on This is HCD Slack Channel Read articles on our This is HCD Network on Medium Support the show.
Gerry and Andy discuss the new plans for Design Politics 2020 in the light of the coronavirus situation, a bumper crop of books in Andy's Book Corner for your reading now that you're stuck at home all day, a study in how Canadians go to the toilet, and Gerry gets out his guitar and sings... No, really. Please help us with our conference survey! https://thisishcd.typeform.com/to/Kwhmnw This is HCD Design Politics Conference site Power of Ten with Andy Polaine EthnoPod with Jay Hasbrouck Bringing Design Closer with Gerry Scullion ProdPod with Adrienne Tan Getting Started in Design with Gerry Scullion Talking Shop with Andy Polaine and Gerry Scullion Decoding Culture with Dr. John Curran Andy's Book Corner Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging by Afua Hirsch From Notes to Narrative: Writing Ethnographies That Everyone Can Read by Kristen Ghodsee, which is really a good book about writing in general. Great for design researchers. Hat tip to Chris Hayward for this recommendation. Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation by Andrew Marantz – well-written and depressing at the same time. Unlearn: Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary Results by Barry O’Reilly. Lots of great insights personal and organisational change. (Barry is, in fact, Irish – Andy got it wrong in the podcast). Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know by Malcolm Gladwell. Beyond The Prototype: A roadmap for navigating the fuzzy area between ideas and outcomes by Douglas Ferguson. Connect with This is HCD Follow This is HCD us on Twitter Follow This is HCD on Instagram Sign up for our newsletter (we have lots of design giveaways!) Join the practitioner community on This is HCD Slack Channel Read articles on our This is HCD Network on Medium Support the show.
Barry O’Reilly, is a business advisor, entrepreneur, keynote speaker, and is the author who has pioneered the intersection of business model innovation, product development, organizational design, and culture transformation. Barry is the founder of ExecCamp, the entrepreneurial experience for executives, and management consultancy Antennae. He wrote an amazing book, “Unlearn: Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary Results” and he is also the author of “Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale.” We’re diving deep into “unlearning” and how it can help organizations thrive in this era. Contents How did you get into the study, research and practice of unlearning? A change in mindset What’s the learning organization and what’s unlearning instead? Recognizing what’s not working Learn fast and rapidly innovate Is disruption organizational or it happens at an individual level? How does the Cycle of Unlearning work? Not a one-and-done cycle What are the key characteristics of unlearning? Curiosity Ownership Commitment Recap of the key characteristics to master unlearning What’s status quo leadership and why it might be damgerous? Avoid to just copy and paste frameworks Define the outcomes Build a system to continuous innovation through unlearning How to use the Three Cultures Model to build a successful company? What are unlearning prompts? And why they matter? How do you know you need to unlearn? Is there a number one reason people don’t unlearn? Build a growth mindset Fixed vs. growth mindset Switch the focus from the person to the process Recap about growth vs. fixed mindset What suggestions do you have for executives to bring this process in their organizations? Key takeaways
Manuj Aggarwal and Barry O'Reilly, the author of the Book "Unlearn: Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary Results", and co-author of the international bestseller "Lean Enterprise: How High-Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale", discuss many things about the process of unlearning and relearning of organizations and individuals in order to achieve continuous success. What are you waiting for? Tune In Now!In this episode, we will learn about:Why do you need to unlearn and relearnHow to learn from the challenges you faceWhat unlearning – relearning isWhat success isHow to navigate while facing uncertaintyHow to convince others to unlearnWhat to do when you are failingHow to deal with business transformationCommon characteristics of successful organizations and individualsAbout Barry O'ReillyBarry O'Reilly is the author of "Unlearn: Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary Results," and co-author of the international bestseller "Lean Enterprise: How High-Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale" —included in the Eric Ries series, and a Harvard Business Review. He is an internationally sought-after speaker, frequent writer, and contributor to The Economist, Strategy+Business, and MIT Sloan Management Review.Barry O'Reilly works with business leaders and teams from global organizations that seek not to fear the future but invent it. He has been an entrepreneur, employee, and consultant. After several startups, his focus shifted towards the enterprise, where he has pioneered the intersection of business model innovation, product development, organizational design, and culture transformation.Education: Barry O'Reilly is graduated from the Technological University Dublin in Business Information Systems and Management.Experience: Barry is faculty at Singularity University, advising and contributing to Singularity's executive and accelerator programs based in San Francisco, and throughout the globe.Links & Mentions From This Episode:Barry's website: https://barryoreilly.com/TetraNoodle consulting services: https://go.tetranoodle.com/boot-podcastTetraNoodle professional training: https://courses.tetranoodle.comThanks for Tuning In! Thanks so much for being with us this week. Have some feedback you'd like to share? Please leave a note in the comments section! Enjoyed the episode? Kindly share it with your friends. Don't forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes to get automatic episode updates for our "Bootstrapping Your Dreams Show!"Support the show
Unlearn With Barry O'Reilly TableXI is now offering training for developers and products teams! For more info, email workshops@tablexi.com. Summary Our guest today is Barry O’Reilly, author of the book “Unlearn: Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary Results”. In it, he sets out a process for defining outcomes, identifying behaviors that might help or hinder reaching the outcomes, and then unlearning existing behaviors and relearning new ones. We talk about how that process works, how to use it yourself, how it might fail, and what Barry unlearned for himself in the process of writing the book. We’d like to hear from you. What’s something you’ve needed to unlearn to reach success? Let us know at techdoneright.io/57 or on Twitter at @tech_done_right Guest Barry O’Reilly (https://twitter.com/barryoreilly): Author of Unlearn: Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary Results (https://amzn.to/2EJtfBy). Unlearn website (http://www.unlearn.online). Author of Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale with Jez Humble and Joanne Molesky (https://amzn.to/2NOoSsX), barryoreilly.com (https://barryoreilly.com/). Summary 03:15 - Letting Go and Unlearning Past Behavior 07:17 - How to Achieve and Define Positive Outcomes BJ Fogg (https://www.bjfogg.com) Behavior Design (https://www.behaviormodel.org) 15:25 - Unlearning as a Continuous Cycle 20:25 - Think Big, Smart Small, and Learn Fast 26:14 - When People Don’t Succeed 29:03 - Being Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable 31:30 - Learning to Unlearn 33:00 - Focusing on Deliberate Reflection 34:55 - Unlearning and Leadership Roles 36:56 - Getting Started with Unlearning Special Guest: Barry O'Reilly.
Webinar by Barry O'Reilly March 6 from 1:00 - 2:00 ET Presented by Barry O'Reilly In this session, you will: Learn to use a systematic approach to adapting your behaviors and mindset in order to meet the demands of an exponential rate of innovation. Discover how to let go, reframe, and rethink past successes in order to succeed in the future. Identify and address the personal obstacles that you need to unlearn. Challenge your thinking, get outside your comfort zone, and achieve results beyond what you thought was possible. Effective leadership comes with a large learning curve. In today’s rapidly evolving business climate, this is truer than ever for seasoned leaders and entrepreneurs alike. Many leaders rely too heavily on past achievements, practices, and ways of thinking to drive positive business results today, but they often need to unlearn those behaviors before they can take a step forward. Join executive coach Barry O’Reilly as he breaks down a transformative framework that shows leaders how to rethink their strategies, retool their capabilities, and revitalize their businesses for stronger, longer-lasting success. "Unlearn: Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary Results" shows leaders and entrepreneurs how to deliberately move away from once-useful mindsets and outdated behaviors that were effective in the past and embrace new behaviors that are effective in a world ripe with emerging technologies and accelerated change. Barry O'Reilly Barry O’Reilly is a business advisor, entrepreneur, and author who has pioneered the intersection of business model innovation, product development, organizational design, and culture transformation. Barry works with business leaders and teams from global organizations that seek to invent the future, not fear it. Every day, Barry helps with many of the world’s leading companies, from disruptive startups to Fortune 500 behemoths, break the vicious cycles that spiral businesses toward death by enabling culture of experimentation and learning to unlock the insights required for better decision making, higher performance and results. Barry is the author of Unlearn: Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary Results, and co-author of the international bestseller Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale—included in the Eric Ries series, and a Harvard Business Review must read for CEOs and business leaders. He is an internationally sought-after speaker, frequent writer and contributor to The Economist, Strategy+Business, and MIT Sloan Management Review. Barry is faculty at Singularity University, advising and contributing to Singularity’s executive and accelerator programs based in San Francisco, and throughout the globe. Barry is the founder of ExecCamp, the entrepreneurial experience for executives, and management consultancy Antennae. His mission is to help purposeful, technology-led businesses innovate at scale.
It's two Barrys in a row on the podcast, as my guest for Episode #335 is Barry O'Reilly and we're talking, in depth, about his latest book, Unlearn: Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary Results. Barry is a business advisor, entrepreneur, and author who has pioneered the intersection of business model innovation, product development, organizational design, and culture transformation. See his full bio. Last week, I shared a shorter discussion with Barry that served as a preview of the webinar that he's presenting on Wednesday. You can find a link to register for the live webinar (or to view the recording) at leanblog.org/335. Barry and I chat about topics including 1) experimental approaches to entrepreneurship, 2) how leaders need to make it safe for people to try new things, and 3) why you have to unlearn before you can learn something new – that's the pathway that allows you to then achieve breakthrough results. These are good ideas in business and they also talk about the interesting case of tennis legend Serena Williams and how she reinvented her game to extend her greatness. I hope you enjoy the conversation as much as I did and do hope you'll pick up the book.
A preview of an upcoming webinar to be presented by Barry O'Reilly on March 6. http://www.kainexus.com/webinars Why Great Leaders Must Unlearn to Succeed in Today’s Exponential World March 6 from 1:00 - 2:00 ET Presented by Barry O'Reilly In this session, you will: Learn to use a systematic approach to adapting your behaviors and mindset in order to meet the demands of an exponential rate of innovation. Discover how to let go, reframe, and rethink past successes in order to succeed in the future. Identify and address the personal obstacles that you need to unlearn. Challenge your thinking, get outside your comfort zone, and achieve results beyond what you thought was possible. Effective leadership comes with a large learning curve. In today’s rapidly evolving business climate, this is truer than ever for seasoned leaders and entrepreneurs alike. Many leaders rely too heavily on past achievements, practices, and ways of thinking to drive positive business results today, but they often need to unlearn those behaviors before they can take a step forward. Join executive coach Barry O’Reilly as he breaks down a transformative framework that shows leaders how to rethink their strategies, retool their capabilities, and revitalize their businesses for stronger, longer-lasting success. "Unlearn: Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary Results" shows leaders and entrepreneurs how to deliberately move away from once-useful mindsets and outdated behaviors that were effective in the past and embrace new behaviors that are effective in a world ripe with emerging technologies and accelerated change. Barry O'Reilly Barry O’Reilly is a business advisor, entrepreneur, and author who has pioneered the intersection of business model innovation, product development, organizational design, and culture transformation. Barry works with business leaders and teams from global organizations that seek to invent the future, not fear it. Every day, Barry helps with many of the world’s leading companies, from disruptive startups to Fortune 500 behemoths, break the vicious cycles that spiral businesses toward death by enabling culture of experimentation and learning to unlock the insights required for better decision making, higher performance and results. Barry is the author of Unlearn: Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary Results, and co-author of the international bestseller Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale—included in the Eric Ries series, and a Harvard Business Review must read for CEOs and business leaders. He is an internationally sought-after speaker, frequent writer and contributor to The Economist, Strategy+Business, and MIT Sloan Management Review. Barry is faculty at Singularity University, advising and contributing to Singularity’s executive and accelerator programs based in San Francisco, and throughout the globe. Barry is the founder of ExecCamp, the entrepreneurial experience for executives, and management consultancy Antennae. His mission is to help purposeful, technology-led businesses innovate at scale. Read Barry’s blog at: www.barryoreilly.com See what he has to say on Twitter: @barryoreilly
Barry O’Reilly, Author of “Unlearn: Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary Results”, shares how to unlearn outdated behaviors and mindsets and embrace experimentation. Get the latest updates from the show at www.thisisproductmanagement.com.
Barry O’Reilly is the Author of Unlearn: Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary Results and Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale. He and Brian Ardinger discuss creating a culture of experimentation in enterprises and seeing everything as an assumption. Barry came to the U.S. originally from Ireland on a student visa and worked at City Search “putting people on the Internet.” He soon joined a mobile games development company and created a popular game called Wireless Pets. Soon large corporations started calling asking the company to build games. This caused Barry to develop an experimental mindset. Soon Barry moved to Australia to build next-gen content for E-learning in Southeast Asia. Game design and game theory is teaching new skills in safe environment. It allows for rapid experimentation and behavior. Then Barry joined a consultancy in London called ThoughtWorks. They were pioneers in Agile software development where he worked with companies to reinvent portfolio management and how to fund and test ideas. Barry’s first book, Lean Enterprise, highlights how to create experimentation in enterprises. Amazon does this well because they have a culture that makes experimentation cheap and fast. They are able to gather better data and are unlearning existing beliefs and learning new ones that can help them break through and innovate. In his new book, Unlearn, Barry says people recognize that we always have to be learning, but it’s tough to learn new stuff. The limiting factor is the ability to unlearn behavior especially when it’s made you successful. Letting go and moving away from things that limit us, like outdated info. Barry highlights the most bureaucratic regulated companies in his book and describes how these people are making amazing changes. Barry also hosts Exec Camp, where execs leave their businesses for up to 8 weeks to launch new businesses to disrupt their existing companies. It’s like an accelerator for senior leaders. They learn and unlearn new things about themselves. For example, the International Airlines Group came to Exec Camp, to launch six new ideas to disrupt the airline industry. They tested ideas with customers and had to unlearn the behavior of pushing ideas on customers. They soon began to see everything as an assumption. We’re conditioned to believe that the way we solve a customer problem is the only way to do it. Tech changes how to solve problems. Startups are able to start with a blank set of assumptions. Individuals get disrupted not companies. If you are adapting your features and behaviors, you won’t be disrupted. May need to shift your tactics or beliefs. FOR MORE INFO To find out more, go to Barryoreilly.com on Twitter @BarryOReilly. You can also find his book on Amazon. If you liked this podcast, try Ep 99 Ryan Jacoby with Machine, Ep 43 Ash Maurya, Author of Scaling Lean, and Ep. 20 Lisa Kay Solomon with Design a Better Business GET THE LATEST RESOURCES Get the latest episodes of the Inside Outside Innovation podcast, in addition to thought leadership in the form of blogs, innovation resources, videos, and invitations to exclusive events. SUBSCRIBE HERE For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Individuals get disrupted, not companies Barry O’Reilly is the Author of Unlearn: Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary Results and Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale. In this episode, Barry and Brian Ardinger discuss creating a culture of experimentation in enterprises and seeing everything as an assumption. Barry came to the U.S. from Ireland and worked at City Search “putting people on the Internet.” He then joined a mobile games development company, which helped him develop an experimental mindset. After this, he moved to Australia to make next-gen content for E-learning in Southeast Asia. Finally, he joined a consultancy in London called ThoughtWorks, where he helped companies reinvent their portfolio management and learn how to fund and test ideas. In Lean Enterprise, Barry’s first book, he highlights how to create experimentation in enterprises. Amazon does this well because the culture encourages cheap and fast experimentation. They can gather better data, unlearn existing beliefs, and learn new behavior which helps them break through and innovate. In Barry's new book, Unlearn, he says people recognize that they always have to be learning, but it’s tough to learn new things. The limiting factor is the ability to unlearn behavior especially when it’s made the person successful. Barry highlights the most bureaucratic regulated companies and describes how they are making amazing changes. Barry also hosts Exec Camp, where execs leave their businesses for up to eight weeks to launch new companies that are intended to disrupt their existing companies. It’s like an accelerator for senior leaders. They learn and unlearn new things about themselves. For example, the International Airlines Group came to Exec Camp, to launch six new ideas to disrupt the airline industry. They tested ideas with customers and had to unlearn the behavior of pushing ideas on customers. They soon began to see everything as an assumption. We’re conditioned to believe that the way we solve a customer problem is the only way to do it, however, tech changes how we can solve problems. Individuals get disrupted not companies. FOR MORE INFO To find out more, go to Barryoreilly.com on Twitter @BarryOReilly. You can also find his book on Amazon. If you liked this podcast, try Ep 99 Ryan Jacoby with Machine, Ep 43 Ash Maurya, Author of Scaling Lean, and Ep. 20 Lisa Kay Solomon with Design a Better Business GET THE LATEST RESOURCES Get the latest episodes of the Inside Outside Innovation podcast, in addition to thought leadership in the form of blogs, innovation resources, videos, and invitations to exclusive events. SUBSCRIBE HERE For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
In this episode of the IoT Product Leadership podcast, we discuss how Product Leaders accelerate IoT innovation. My guest is Barry O'Reilly, a business advisor, entrepreneur, and author who has pioneered the intersection of business model innovation, product development, organizational design, and culture transformation. In my IoT practice, I talk to many IoT Product Leaders overwhelmed by the complexity of bringing and IoT product to market. That’s why I’m very excited to have Barry on the show and have him share his experience on how large and small companies alike can innovate much faster and with much less effort. This is an episode that no IoT Product Leader should miss. About Barry O'Reilly: Barry O’Reilly is a business advisor, entrepreneur, and author who has pioneered the intersection of business model innovation, product development, organizational design, and culture transformation. Barry works with business leaders and teams from global organizations that seek to invent the future, not fear it. Every day, Barry helps with many of the world’s leading companies, from disruptive startups to Fortune 500 behemoths, break the vicious cycles that spiral businesses toward death by enabling a culture of experimentation and learning to unlock the insights required for better decision making, higher performance and results. Barry is the author of Unlearn: Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary Results, and co-author of the international bestseller Lean Enterprise: How High-Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale—included in the Eric Ries series, and a Harvard Business Review must-read for CEOs and business leaders. He is an internationally sought-after speaker, frequent writer, and contributor to The Economist, Strategy+Business, and MIT Sloan Management Review. Barry is faculty at Singularity University, advising and contributing to Singularity’s executive and accelerator programs based in San Francisco, and throughout the globe. Barry is the founder of ExecCamp, the entrepreneurial experience for executives, and management consultancy Antennae. His mission is to help purposeful, technology-led businesses innovate at scale. Topics we discuss in this episode: Barry shares his background and how he got to where he is today Why do large organizations struggle to capitalize on rapid-changing trends like IoT The “Connected Learning Loop” and how Barry applied it on a project with the London subway to save millions of dollars. Barry explains the big picture of the value companies can derive from IoT. And he does that by walking us through a smart coffee maker example How to leverage prototypes and how to manage the speed of experiments to accelerate innovation Barry shares a teaser of his new book: Unlearn For more information, visit the full show notes at iotproductleadership.com