Unlearn
The way to think differently is to act differently and get comfortable with being uncomfortable. For business leaders, entrepreneurs, managers and anyone who wants to improve how they work and live: Welcome to the Unlearn Podcast. Host Barry O’Reilly, author of Unlearn and Lean Enterprise seeks to synthesize the superpowers of extraordinary individuals into actionable strategies you can use—to Think BIG, start small and learn fast, and find your edge with excellence.
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How To Achieve Collective Success with Temi Ofong
Barry O'Reilly welcomes Temi Ofong, Chief Operating Officer for Corporate Investment Banking at Absa, to share the lessons he learned and unlearned throughout his career, in particular, the importance of putting people first to achieve success.
34 min
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Product Management Thinking For Policy and Gove...
Karen Tay, Smart Nation Director for the Prime Minister's Office of Singapore, chats with Barry O’Reilly about how she is helping to modernize government by applying product development thinking to policy, organizational and talent development.
43 min
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Being Your Best In A Crisis with Eric McNulty
This week’s guest on the Unlearn Podcast is Eric McNulty, head of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard. Eric is a crisis leadership expert who has worked on crises such as the Boston Marathon bombing, Hurricane Sandy and Deepwater Horizon, the BP oil spill off the coast of Mexico.
35 min
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Pretotyping to Build the Right "It" with Albert...
Alberto Savoia, successful former CTO of companies like Sun Microsystems turned entrepreneur, chats with Barry O’Reilly about the pivotal unlearning moments in his life and his new approach to product development.
38 min
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Creating Sustainable Inspiration with Jen Grace...
Jen Grace Baron joins Barry O'Reilly on this week's episode to discuss the findings of her research in the secrets of sustaining inspiration as revealed in her book, Dare to Inspire: Sustain the Fire of Inspiration in Work and Life.
33 min
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Testing Business Ideas with David J. Bland
In this week’s show, Barry O’Reilly and David J. Bland discuss his new book, Testing Business Ideas: A Field Guide for Rapid Experimentation, including what it takes to do experimentation right.
43 min
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How Empathy Drives Innovation with Dr. Gail Leb...
Dr. Gail Lebovic is a surgeon and entrepreneur whose work has made a great impact on the healthcare space, particularly by devising innovative surgical techniques and developing medical devices aimed at improving the lives of women with breast cancer.
37 min
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People-Centered Leadership at NASA with Dr. Ed ...
46 min
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Season Finale: AMA with Barry O’Reilly
In this finale episode of Season 1, Barry O’Reilly takes the time to answer questions posed by listeners.
33 min
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Using Vision, Mission and Data To Transform Org...
Tanya Cordrey started her career as a journalist for a road haulage magazine. Today she serves on several boards and consults with many leading organizations.
50 min
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Pioneering the Cloud and DevOps Paradigm with S...
38 min
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How Alignment Scaled a Unicorn with Kim Atherton
As a trained occupational psychologist, Kim Atherton has worked with leaders and organizations to understand how they create high-performance teams.
42 min
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If We’re Not Winning We’re Learning with Martin...
When he started ProductTank in the back of a London pub, Martin never imagined that his small meetup of 25 product managers would be the genesis of a community over 150,000 strong from 180 cities, or that they would be hosting 5 conferences around the world.
31 min
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Brave Narratives for Bold Change with Thaniya K...
39 min
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The Lean Startup Pivot with Eric Ries
Barry O’Reilly is excited to welcome Eric Ries to the Unlearn Podcast. Eric is an entrepreneur who currently heads the Long Term Stock Exchange. He is best known, however, as the author of the international bestseller: The Lean Startup.
43 min
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Embracing Failure to Create the Future with Sne...
Snehal Kundalkar, Senior Director of Engineering at Reddit, grew up in a world of dualities. On the one hand she was taught that her place as a woman was between the kitchen and the kids, but on the other hand she was encouraged to embrace uncertainty to solve complex problems.
49 min
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Design Sprint Your Defaults with Jake Knapp
35 min
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Outcomes For Human Systems No Matter The Busine...
You always want to look back on your life and say that your path from point A to point B was linear. It almost never really is. Today’s guest on the Unlearn Podcast is Mark Graban, author of Lean Hospitals and Measures of Success, who started out as an engineer for General Motors. It’s been quite a journey.
41 min
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The True Story of Struggles and Success Of A St...
Entrepreneurs tend to talk about the success, the fun and excitement of running a company. Fewer talk about struggles. Today, on the Unlearn Podcast, Barry O’Reilly talks to Teresa Torres, Product Discovery Coach at Product Talk. They get into what’s hard about the path to success, and at the end of the day, what really matters.
38 min
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CEO School and the Future of Work with Stephane...
In this episode of the Unlearn Podcast, Barry O'Reilly speaks with Stephane Kasriel, the CEO of Upwork—the world’s largest freelancing platform where businesses and independent professionals connect and collaborate remotely.
36 min
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Solving Problems Safely with Mary and Tom Poppe...
Barry O’Reilly has had many mentors over the years, and among them, Mary and Tom Poppendieck have been some of the most inspirational. In today’s conversation, they talk about challenges the Agile community faces, debunk the myths of scaling agility, and finally, Mary and Tom reveal how they have stayed relevant for decades as they continue to coach, mentor, and help others.
47 min
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Living Your Leadership Principles To Learn and ...
Joe Norena is the Managing Director at HSBC and the Global Markets Americas COO. From corporations to startups to corporate digital, his experience has run the gamut of organization. Joe has led a life of unlearning, and every new thing he learned he has applied to the next situation. In this episode, Joe and Barry talk about the pivotal moments in his career that brought him where he is today.
36 min
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Keeping Skills, Strategy and Structure Unstuck ...
Have you ever felt boxed in based on your job description? Join us today as Katri Harra-Salonen, the Chief Digital Officer of Finnair Oyj, shares what she’s learned and unlearned throughout her career of mixing industries, mixing roles, and being comfortable with being uncomfortable.
27 min
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Delighting Customers, in Hard-to-copy, Margin-e...
On this episode, we have Gibson Biddle, a speaker, advisor, and teacher who is the former Vice President of Product Management at Netflix. He’s been involved with many startup companies to help them develop products, and today we’re talking about consumer science, metrics, and experimenting our way through work and life.
47 min
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Product Thinking for Product Management with Me...
Melissa Perri is a champion for product management who’s built her business around helping others understand it. She now teaches product thinking for product management to all types of companies and excels at experimenting small and fast for big results. Unlearning Business Analysis and relearning Product Management.
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