Barry OReilly talks with Dave Rael about experiences experiments, culture, writing, learning, teaching, and unlearning
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
Find out more about Unlearn at: www.unlearn.online
See what he has to say on Twitter: @barryoreilly
Chapters:
0:32 - Dave introduces the show and Barry OReilly4:25 - The impact of working with exceptional people10:32 - How Barry became an author15:32 - Decomposing huge tasks16:33 - Barry's synthetic thinking19:38 - Unlearning to make room for growth24:44 - Barry's new book: Unlearn: Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary Results29:33 - Barry on Antifragility32:00 - Barry's story of failure - innovation without the right context and then creating the right context to test assumptions38:56 - Barry's book recommendations41:29 - Measuring and creating experiments by first creating success criteria43:40 - "The blind spot of expertise"46:40 - Barry's top 3 tips for delivering more value49:05 - Keeping up with Barry
Resources:
Unlearn: Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary Results - Barry O'Reilly
Barry's Workshops
ExecCamp
Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale (Lean (O'Reilly)) - Jez Humble, Joanne Molesky, Barry O'Reilly
Joanne Molesky
Jez Humble
Jim Webber
Alistair Jones
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto) - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Fallacies of Distributed Computing
Developer On Fire Guest Book Recommendations
Tom Gilb on Developer On Fire
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change - Stephen R. Covey
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success - Carol S. Dweck
Barry's book recommendation:
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers - Ben Horowitz
High Output Management - Andrew S. Grove
How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business - Douglas W. Hubbard
Unlearn: Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary Results - Barry O'Reilly
Barry's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
Stay curious - when you encounter something you think is not right, ask "why do you think that" with curiosity
Get comfortable with being uncomfortable
Start small and feel successful