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Episode 66 – Stop Outsourcing Thinking: Rebuilding Your Team’s Problem-Solving Muscles

Episode 66 – Stop Outsourcing Thinking: Rebuilding Your Team’s Problem-Solving Muscles

Jennifer Long

It’s critical that you know that Episode 66 of Leadership Kung Fu is here!

Welcome to February’s topic of what outsourcing thinking actually does to your team and how your practices can keep the problem-solving muscles healthy. Sandi and Jen dive right into:

  • How the cost of time with critical thinking is a lie
  • Low accountability and leaderned helplessness
  • The role of psychological safety
  • System 1 and System 2 thinking
  • The importances of exploring your problem-solving tools
  • Critical Thinking and A.I.
  • Leadership self-reflection and the role it plays
  • Managing discomfort
  • How many places you might have abandoned thinking

and much more!

Thank you so much for listening! If you like what you hear, leave us a review on your favorite podcast platform, and make sure to check out the video cast under the “Videos” tab or over on the Leadership Kung Fu Youtube Channel!
Connect with Jen on LinkedIn and visit her website Own Up!®
Connect with Sandi on LinkedIn and visit her website Satori Consulting, Inc!

Have a comment, question, or topic for Sandi and Jen? Email us at podcast@own-up.com or leave us a comment on LinkedIn. If you like what you hear, leave us a review on your favorite listening platform!

Jen’s Website

Sandi’s Website

Episode 65 – Strategy is Not a Slide Deck

Episode 65 – Strategy is Not a Slide Deck

Jennifer Long

Starting off 2026 strong, it’s episode 65 of Leadership Kung Fu!

Join Sandi and Jen in this new year as they revisit the topic of strategy in the workplace and how to get it unstuck from your meeting slide deck and out in action in your workforce. Listen along as they discuss:

  • Strategy to action
  • How strategies from Q4 are looking in Q1
  • Personal anecdotes
  • The importance of your “No” list
  • Facing the fears of “what if”
  • Real risk vs. risks we THINK are real
  • What strategy is and is not
  • Operationalizing
  • How alignment is an ongoing conversation
  • What happens when everything is deemed important
  • What each level of leadership needs to do with the strategy from the top
  • The importance of choosing the right words
  • Strategy upkeep and metrics
  • How strategy can die and what happens if it does
  • The effect of run-time on strategy
  • The 5 take-aways of strategy

and more!

Thank you so much for listening! If you like what you hear, leave us a review on your favorite podcast platform, and make sure to check out the video cast under the “Videos” tab or over on the Leadership Kung Fu Youtube Channel!
Connect with Jen on LinkedIn and visit her website Own Up!®
Connect with Sandi on LinkedIn and visit her website Satori Consulting, Inc!

Have a comment, question, or topic for Sandi and Jen? Email us at podcast@own-up.com or leave us a comment on LinkedIn. If you like what you hear, leave us a review on your favorite listening platform!

Jen’s Website

Sandi’s Website