Rebroadcast - Unlearning for Success with Barry O’Reilly

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 In this episode, Bryce talks to Barry O’Reilly about the need for leaders to “unlearn” things that are no longer valid or no longer serve them and explains how major corporations have used his unlearning process to achieve greater success.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 KEY MOMENTS: 1:30 What is Unlearning? 7:23 Capital One case study 11:45 Decision-making process vs practice 13:50 Why so many digital transformations fail 16:19 Crises as springboard 24:15 Becoming a more agile, 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 Links: Read Barry’s blog http://www.barryoreilly.com/ See what Barry has to say on Twitter   / barryoreilly   Subscribe to Barry’s podcast http://www.barryoreilly.com/podcast Join Barry’s newsletter http://www.barryoreilly.com/newsletter For more information about this episode head to https://www.redteamthinking.com/ 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/rttas... As well as watching here on YouTube, you can also listen to this episode on your favorite podcast platform: https://www.redteamthinking.com/podca... Follow us on LinkedIn:   / redteamthinking   Connect with Bryce:   / brycehoffman   Connect with Marcus:   / 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!