Useful
Hi! I’m Molly. I write about what it actually takes to lead inside growing, changing companies: the frameworks that help, the honest truth about what it feels like, and the messy work of shaping a career that actually fits.
Lessons is where those ideas live — both the writing and the conversations around it. (If you want to learn more about how Lessons and the community work, you can read more here.)
Useful. It’s my favorite word and a word that can change the trajectory of your career.
To be honest, useful has been a north star for me — it was the word I organized my energy around when I was working inside of companies.
AND I have seen over and over again that if you’re inside a growing company, being useful is like finding a jet pack for your career.
My biggest career transformation came after I had done a good job with a project in my People role at Facebook, and someone came and asked me if I wanted to work on a mobile project. I’ve talked about it more in the J-Curve vs Stairs article. It was a defining moment in my career: I could never have dreamed up that opportunity for myself, but someone saw potential in me, and that experience taught me that I was capable of more than I knew or would have guessed if I had stayed in HR/Recruiting.
That experience has repeated itself again and again in my weird, winding career.
