Overcoming Self-Sabotage: Jennifer Selby Long on the Neuroscience of Change – Part Two

Part Two.

Jennifer Selby Long, who has spent the last 30 years helping tech leaders navigate the waves of tech evolution, leading and managing organizational change. In recent years, her focus has been on cybersecurity, digital transformation, and user experience.

But don’t tune out just yet if you’re not in those fields—what Jennifer shares is relevant to anyone looking to thrive in today’s fast-changing world.

This episode (and the last one) is all about how to guide yourself through personal transformation and step into your next opportunity.

A leader can’t successfully drive organizational change without first mastering their own personal transformation. So, we’ll dive into why understanding the natural process of personal change can help you fast-track your transformation, how to manage self-doubt, avoid sabotaging your own progress, and how to make career moves that truly work in your favor—instead of simply running away from one undesirable situation to the next.

Episode Breakdown:

2:52—Taming Your Inner Saboteur: How to Outsmart Self-Doubt Like a Ninja

“When you start to feel yourself self sabotage, that’s not you. That’s the saboteur neural networks in your mind firing up.”

7:03—Carrie Bradshaw Says, “We All Judge”—But Are We Our Own Worst Critics?

“You can weaken that judge in so many different ways. One is to gently make a little fun like you would with a little kid. Ah, I see you. I caught you. I found you. Hide and seek.”

20:08—Freeze, Change, Unfreeze: A Throwback to Kurt Lewin’s Classic 3-Step Change Model

27:26—Career Jumps or Career Jumbles? How to Leap Toward Success Instead of Another Bad Boss

39:53—Office Politics Unplugged: Is It a Leadership Problem or Just People Being… People?

“Politics can exist for extremely unhealthy reasons in all seriousness, because you have a leader at the top, Who literally has a personality disorder. Another situation that is much more common is that politics exists because people have different needs.”

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Host: Vince Chan | Guest: Jennifer Selby Long

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