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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

779: How to Unlock Greater Potential through Unlearning with Barry O’Reilly

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

Sharpening, Self-improvement, Meaning, Winning, Development, Money, Interview, Writing, Health & Fitness, Speaking, Mental Health, Success, Wins, Fun, Skills, Business, Careers, Training, Education, Collaboration, Decisions, Career, Selfhelp, Mockaitis, Thinking

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Barry O’Reilly shares his strategies on how to unlearn the mindsets and behaviors that hold us back. 


— YOU’LL LEARN — 

1) The key to breakthrough improvement 

2) How to identify what you need to unlearn 

3) How to overcome the fear of change 


Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep779 for clickable versions of the links below. 


— ABOUT BARRY — 

Barry O’Reilly is the founder and CEO of ExecCamp, an entrepreneurial experience for executives, and the management consultancy Antennae. A business advisor, entrepreneur, and sought-after speaker, O’Reilly has pioneered the intersection of business model innovation, product development, organizational design, and culture transformation. He works with the world’s leading innovators, from disruptive startups to Fortune 500 companies. 

He is a frequent writer and contributor to The Economist, Strategy+Business, and MIT Sloan Management Review, as well as a coauthor of the international bestseller Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale―included in the Eric Ries Lean series and a Harvard Business Review “must-read” for would-be CEOs and business leaders. He is also an executive advisor and faculty member at Singularity University. 

• Book: Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale 

• Book: Unlearn: Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary Results 

• Studio: NobodyStudios.com 

• Website: BarryOReilly.com 


— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — 

• Book: Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace by Ricardo Semier


— THANK YOU SPONSORS! — 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast.

0:04.1

The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required

0:08.6

to flourish at work.

0:10.1

Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money with your host, Pete McIdoz.

0:16.1

Hello and thanks for joining us here episode 779 with Barry O'Reilly.

0:24.8

Barry's got a cool perspective on how to achieve more, through not learning more, but

0:29.6

rather, unlearning.

0:30.6

So, you'll learn one, the key to breakthrough improvement, two, how to identify what you

0:35.0

need to unlearn, and three, how to overcome the fear of change.

0:38.4

So, if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items that

0:41.7

we mentioned here, please, pay a visit at awesometyourjob.com slash EP779.

0:46.2

And if it's your first time listening to How to Be Awesome at Your Job, welcome.

0:50.2

You might want to check out episode 0 start here and then episodes A, B, C, D, E, F. It

0:56.4

will sampler of the kinds of topics we cover here to get you oriented.

1:01.0

You can find those in your podcast app if you sort from oldest to newest and then they'll

1:05.2

be right at the top for you.

1:06.2

Now, here's Barry's story.

1:07.7

Barry O'Reilly is the founder and CEO of Executive Camp, an entrepreneurial experience for

1:12.0

executives and the management consultancy and deny.

1:15.8

A business advisor entrepreneur and sought after speaker O'Reilly has pioneered the

1:19.7

intersection of business model innovation, product development, organization design,

1:23.8

and culture transformation.

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