Unlearn, Barry OReilly
Unlearn, Barry OReilly
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Unlearn
Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary Results

Author: Barry O'Reilly

Narrator: Barry O'Reilly

Unabridged: 7 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/27/2018


Synopsis

The transformative system that shows leaders how to rethink their strategies, retool their capabilities, and revitalize their businesses for stronger, longer-lasting success.

There’s a learning curve to running any successful business. But once you begin to rely on past achievements or get stuck in outdated thinking and practices that no longer work, you need to take a step back-and unlearn. This innovative and actionable framework from executive coach Barry O’Reilly shows you how to break the cycle of behaviors that were effective in the past but are no longer relevant in the current business climate, and now limit or may even stand in the way of your success.

With this simple but powerful three-step system, you’ll discover how to:

1. Unlearn the behaviors and mindsets that prevent you and your businesses from moving forward.

2. Relearn new skills, strategies, and innovations that are transforming the world every day.

3. Break through old habits and thinking by opening up to new ideas and perspectives to achieve extraordinary

results.

Packed with relatable anecdotes and real-world examples, this unique resource walks you through every step of the unlearning process. You’ll discover new ways of thinking and leading in every industry. You’ll identify what you need to unlearn, what to stop, what to keep, and what to change. By intentionally and routinely applying the system of unlearning, you’ll be able to adapt your mindset, adopt new behaviors, acquire new skills, and explore new options that will totally transform your performance and the business you lead. This book will help you let go of the past, and encourage your teams and organization to do the same. When you think big but start small, choose courage over comfort, and become curious to tackle uncertainty, you can achieve new levels of success you never dreamed possible.

Good leaders know they need to continuously learn. But great leaders know when to unlearn the past to succeed in the future. This book shows you the way.


About Barry O'Reilly

Barry O'Reilly works with ThoughtWorks, consulting with leading global organizations on continuous improvement using lean and agile practices and principles. He has been an entrepreneur, employee, and consultant. His passion is business model innovation, product development, organizational design, and cultural transformation.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sebastian on April 24, 2019

I respect Barry for "Lean Enterprise", but "Unlearn" will not be on the list of books I recommend to my co-workers. It's not that the book is bad, but I'm allergic to the idea of "over-bloating" single ideas to the size of book if an essay (article) or short series would be enough. The whole "Cycle o......more

Goodreads review by Adrian on February 10, 2019

Barry's produced a super little book here. His framing of the problems many leaders and organisations have as an inability to break old habits, rather than a problem with adopting new ones, seems so obvious in hindsight. It's a book I'm going to be pushing into a few people's hands.......more

Goodreads review by Chintushig on September 02, 2020

Self help номнууд дотроос утга санаагаараа ялгарна гэдэг маш чухал. Энэ номны гол санааг бодох бүрт улам илүү үнэн болж таараад байгаа нь сонирхол татах боллоо. Бид гаргасан амжилтандаа дулдуйдан явж ирсэн зам, сурсан зүйлээ хамгийн зөв гэдэгт бат итгэдэг. Арга барил, мэдсэн зүйлээ шинэчлэх сайжруул......more

Goodreads review by Bill on December 01, 2018

(Disclaimer: Barry is a friend and I provided input into “Unlearn.”) Over the last five years, a significant part of my job at IBM has been driving positive change in large enterprises—both IBM and with large commercial clients. I believe Barry’s book is an important contribution to the literature on......more

Goodreads review by Matej on March 18, 2022

Appreciate reference to B.J. Fogg. Other than that my first unlearn book. Creating safe-to-fail environment is way to go achieve generative culture with performance focus. Where people has sense of security to take initiative and be creative and try. ≥Success comes to those who are willing to do thing......more