Happy friction is like a speed bump. It’s something you add on purpose to make people pause. Ideally, not because you’re afraid to delegate, but because the cost of getting it wrong is higher than the cost of going slow. It’s friction that sends a message: this matters.| mollyg.substack.com
Over the years, I’ve come to see that many of us fall loosely into two career archetypes: the leavers and the stayers.| mollyg.substack.com
There are a handful of recurring, company-wide activities that influence how everyone spends their time, including board meetings, business reviews, goals, budgeting, headcount planning, and performance reviews.Good sequencing saves time. One of the things that pains me the most is when I see startups invest weeks of energy prepping for their Board meetings. While Board meetings can be invaluable, it simply should not take weeks to build materials for a meeting that is primarily for your bene...| mollyg.substack.com
I hate OKRs. Let me explain... I believe strongly in having a goal-setting process. The purpose of goal setting in my mind is to ensure that everyone is aligned on what success looks like for the next period of time and how we know if we got there. A good goal setting process is important for two reasons: 1) it creates clarity so that your team knows what to prioritize and can make aligned choices day-to-day and 2) it is an essential learning process for discovering how to govern and run your...| mollyg.substack.com
My work-life right now is casually titled “experiments with friends.” I’ve been exploring what I want to do next by (a) focusing on finding joy at work and (b) creating experiments that feel impactful to me with people that I love working with every day.| mollyg.substack.com
In 2013, I had breakfast with a friend.| mollyg.substack.com
“Organizations are horrible at subtraction.” Someone said that to me a couple of months ago, and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it since. It is so true. Organizations are so much better at adding things than they are at taking things away. We’re better at setting goals and talking about what we’re going to do than we are at talking about what we’re NOT going to do. It's easier to add process than it is to ask why we're still doing that thing that worked great two yea...| mollyg.substack.com
First of all let me say, I seem to only take jobs that I feel super unqualified for, and the number one thing it has taught me is that it is actually an extraordinarily powerful skill to ask the “stupid” questions that everyone else is afraid to ask. Stupid questions have the ability to create clarity in places where people didn’t even know there was confusion.| mollyg.substack.com