Craig and Tony are at YOW! Conference in Brisbane and (despite a bin rolling by) sit down with Barry O’Reilly, co-author of “Lean Enterprise” and author of “Unlearn” and they talk about:

• Reminiscing about Barry’s resume that includes CitySearch (and its competitor Zip2 owned by Elon Musk), Snake, Wireless Pets on Nokia and Lilo & Stitch using J2ME and eventually onto ThoughtWorks
• Lean Enterprise was written after “The Lean Startup” was released but to explain how it works if you are not a startup and increase experimentation in organisations
• When people can design good disciplined experiments, you have system to break down problems and grow your system and people
• Fortune 15 executives and successful startup leaders don’t sit around and ask “if we are doing the framework correctly”- they have their own system, in the same way as Toyota created their own system
• If you choose an off-the-shelf framework it is just a starting point – you need to evolve your system of work to your context to have a competitive advantage
• ExecCamp – take execs out of their business for up to 8 weeks with the aim to disrupt themselves in a safe environment
• Unlearn – we are in an industry where we need to learn but that is not the limiting behaviour, it is our inability to unlearn our existing behaviours that holds us back from getting breakthroughs of higher performance
• YOW! talk “Why Great Leaders Must Unlearn to Succeed“
• Mean time to discovery – how quickly can you see that an assumption is invalid so that you can then make better decisions
• How often are you spending time with customers, how are you getting customer feedback and how are you feeding that information back into your system of work to improve it
• Think big but start small and learn fast – safe to fail experiments
• Agility is hard…
• Everybody has a need to unlearn

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