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Episode 391 | Barry O'Reilly - Comfortable with Uncomfortable

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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

Barry's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
  1. Stay curious - when you encounter something you think is not right, ask "why do you think that" with curiosity
  2. Get comfortable with being uncomfortable
  3. Start small and feel successful

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