Layering and Being Layered - by Molly Graham - Lessons

How to Hire Above Someone — and How to Handle Being Hired Over

This article was also adapted into an episode of the WorkLife podcast, complete with my friend Don Faul’s story about being layered at Facebook and everything he learned from that experience. You can listen to the episode wherever you get your podcasts or watch it on YouTube. Layering is one of the hardest — and most essential — management skills to build inside a growing company. By “layering,” I mean deciding that you need to add someone more senior above a person who has been owning a function or leading a team. Sometimes the function has simply gotten too big for one person to run.…

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