Useful
👋Hi! I'm Molly. This is where I share the lessons I’ve learned from building fast-moving, messy, ambitious companies. For more from me, you can also find me on the WorkLife Podcast, on LinkedIn, and in Glue Club, a community for leaders who care about building great companies.
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.
