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UNLEARN

Let Go of Past Success 
 to Achieve Extraordinary Results

@barryoreilly @execcamp #unlearn #leanenterprise bit.ly/unlearnbook

having fought successively against all peoples, 
 they always gave up their own practices 
 as soon as they found better ones..

Baron de Montesquieu

• Today’s problems come from yesterday’s “solutions.”
• The harder you push, the harder the system pushes back.
• Behavior grows better before it grows worse.
• The easy way out usually leads back in
• The cure can be worse than the disease.
• Faster is slower.
• Cause and effect are not closely related in time and space.
• Small changes can produce big results—but the areas of highest 


leverage are often the least obvious.

• You can have your cake and eat it too—but not at once.
• Dividing an elephant in half does not produce two small elephants.
• There is no blame.

LEARNING ORGANIZATIONS

Knowledge grows, and simultaneously 
 it becomes obsolete as reality changes. 
 
 Understanding involves both learning new knowledge and discarding obsolete and misleading knowledge.

Bo Hedberg

1998 2008 2018 Microsoft Exxon Apple General Electric General Electric Amazon Exxon Microsoft Microsoft Shell AT&T Alphabet Merck Procter and Gamble Facebook

WORLD MOST VALUABLE COMPANIES

Disruption does not actually apply to organizations. The truth is it applies to individuals

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Unlearning is… the conscious act of letting go of outdated information 
 and actively engaging in taking in new information 
 to inform effective decision making and action.

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CYCLE OF UNLEARNING

Barry O’Reilly, Unlearn bit.ly/unlearnbook

I want YOU (NOT ME) to transform

ExecCamp

Break The Model. Reinvent The Business

HOW DOES IT WORK?

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• Curiosity
• Courage
• Commitment
• Comfort with being uncomfortable
• Create safety to succeed


CHARACTERISTICS YOU MUST CULTIVATE TO UNLEARN

Barry O’Reilly, Unlearn bit.ly/unlearnbook

“The challenge we have in this company is that we just need to change the leadership mindset”

• every executive team ever!

UNLEARN LEADERSHIP MINDSET

$365 Billion invested in

executive development each year

1 in 4 say training was

critical to business outcomes

UNLEARNING LEADERSHIP MINDSET

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• The parent company of Aer Lingus, British Airways, Iberia, LEVEL,

Vueling, Avios Group Limited, and IAG Cargo.

• The sixth largest airline in the world, based on revenue of €22.9

billion in 2017.

• 63,000 employees, 547 aircraft, and carries some 105 million

passengers each year.

INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES GROUP

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CxO CxO CxO Customer Customer Customer

What do you think of my amazing idea? Dumb customer… Get me another one… And another… And another… Wait.. maybe it does suck? It sucks It still sucks Awesome! How can I make it better? What do you think of this idea?

Unlearn Zone Relearn until Breakthrough Extraordinary Results

It sucks

Part of unlearning is not getting stuck doing only what worked in the past. When 97 percent of people think you should just go back to doing what you've been doing, or resist the change that you are trying to make, you know you’re on to something, and that’s where the breakthrough journey begins...

Stephen Scott Chief Digital Officer at IAG’s AVIOS Group Limited

“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen” Ernest Hemingway

UNLEARN KNOWING IT ALL

UNLEARNING IS NOT A ONE TIME EVENT ———— IT’S CONTINUOUS

“Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something” Morihei Ueshiba

UNLEARN MISTAKES

NASA was great at learning, but we usually had to fail really big before it became important enough for us to unlearn and then move forward

Edward J Hoffman, PhD, Former, NASA Chief Knowledge Officer

SURVIVAL ANXIETY vs LEARNING ANXIETY

Edgar Schein, Organization Culture and Leadership

THE PYRAMID OF ADVANTAGE OR CATASTROPHE

Ed Hoffman and Barry O’Reilly, bit.ly/unlearnbook

GOOGLE ARISTOTLE PROJECT

Project Aristotle https://rework.withgoogle.com/print/guides/5721312655835136/

Leading indicator for high performance teams was not how smart you are but how safe the team feel with

• ne another

THE PYRAMID OF ADVANTAGE OR CATASTROPHE

Ed Hoffman and Barry O’Reilly, bit.ly/unlearnbook

The best way I know is for us to share our stories —not in PowerPoint—but personally We strive for a culture of speaking up 
 with concerns, and a culture of 
 leaders who stay curious

Robert Lightfoot, former NASA Acting Administrator

“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending”

• C. S. Lewis

HOW YOU CAN THINK BIG AND START SMALL TO UNLEARN TODAY

THINK BIG START SMALL COURAGE OVER COMFORT SCALE SAFETY

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In order to succeed, it's critical for everyone from executives to entrepreneurs to know how to let go of behavior and methods that have helped them achieve in the past but are now limiting. UNLEARN explains how to enter into a continuous cycle of replacing old ideas and models with new

• nes in order to adapt in an ever-changing world.

Founded on clear principles and filled with stories from the field, it advocates for courage over comfort not just now, but in whatever circumstances the future offers up. — Eric Ries, founder LTSE and 
 author of "The Startup Way” and “The Lean Startup”

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Barry O’Reilly
 Business Advisor, Entrepreneur, Faculty Singularity University and Author of Unlearn: Let Go of Past Success to
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