744: Where Being Selfish is Better, with Jenny Wood

744: Where Being Selfish is Better, with Jenny Wood

Jenny Wood: Wild Courage

Over an 18-year career at Google, Jenny Wood grew from entry-level to executive, most recently leading a large operations team that helped drive billions of revenue per year. In 2021, she started a passion project within Google called Own Your Career, which grew to one of the largest career development programs in Google’s history. Her work has since been featured in Harvard Business Review, Entrepreneur, and Forbes, and she’s now the author of Wild Courage: Go After What You Want and Get It*.

Leadership is about serving others – and it’s also ensuring that we take care of ourselves along the way. Sometimes leaders over-index on helping their organizations and teams, to their own detriment. In this conversation, Jenny and I explore where being a little more selfish might actually be better for everyone.

Key Points
  • Selfish redefined means having the courage to stand up for what you want.
  • People want to join a winning team, even if they don’t say that out loud.
  • Guilt is natural, but always caving to it is self-defeating.
  • Don’t do work that’s not actually promotable. There’s no prize for an empty inbox.
  • A belief like “I owe it to them,” may signal an over-commitment to the organization. They will not love you back.
  • Appreciate truth when you get it, but don’t sign up for a burned-out boss.
  • It’s inefficient to always be in the lead. Draft in another leader’s wake.
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