Keynote: Unlearning - The Challenge of Change
summary
Unlearning is framed as a concrete skill with three levels—individual, team, organizational—and two scenarios: habits absent or deeply ingrained; retraining a motor habit takes five minutes a day for eight months to relearn a backwards bike. Practical tools include experiential exercises like space numbers, paper-airplane confessions, escape-thinking, walkshops and unlearning reviews. A worked example shows improv-based training adapted for visually impaired students and yields measurable engagement, and startups are warned that founder mental models harden into culture as headcount passes ~8–25.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:33UNLEARNING: The Challenge of Change
- 4:31What is UNLEARNING?
- 15:28SPACE NUMBERS
- 18:41LET'S GET PERSONAL
- 26:39UNLEARNING ORGANIZATIONS
- 29:30OF UNLEARNING AT WORK
- 30:11UNLEARNING THE ORG CHART
- 31:31SURFACE THE RESISTANCE HAFTA VS WANNA
- 38:49BRING AN OUTSIDERS' PERSPECTIVE
- 41:03ESCAPE THINKING
- 42:15CONDUCT UNLEARNING REVIEWS
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