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Rob Maloney: From Being Important to Being Useful

Rob Maloney/Hemophilia of Georgia

Oct 23, 2026, 08:21

Rob Maloney: From Being Important to Being Useful

Rob Maloney, Chief Executive Officer of Hemophilia of Georgia, shared a post on LinkedIn:

“For most of my career, I was trying to become important.

I wouldn’t have said it that way at the time. I would have called it ambition.

I wanted more responsibility. A bigger job. Another hospital. The next opportunity.

And to be clear, I don’t think ambition is a bad thing. It pushed me. It opened doors.

It helped me provide for my family and gave me the chance to lead organizations and people I cared deeply about.

But somewhere along the way, the question started changing.

It used to be, ‘How far can I go?’

Now it’s, ‘What is all of this for?’

There wasn’t one dramatic moment.

Maybe it was raising four children. Maybe it was losing a job I thought was part of the plan. Maybe it was getting older and realizing there are only so many chapters in a career.

Maybe it was my faith becoming less theoretical and more central to how I wanted to live.

Then I came to Hemophilia of Georgia.

It’s a smaller organization than many of the health systems where I spent my career.

My world got smaller.

Strangely, the work got bigger.

I know the names of the people doing the work. I hear stories about individual patients. I see where the money goes. I can watch an idea move from a conversation in a meeting to something that actually changes a family’s life.

That forced me to rethink the scorecard I’d carried for a long time.

Title.

Size.

Revenue.

Recognition.

Those things aren’t meaningless. But I’m not sure they answer the question I care about now:

Was I useful with what God gave me?

I still have ambition. I still like to build things. I still push too hard sometimes.

But at 52, I’m less interested in becoming important.

I’d rather be useful.

And I’m learning those aren’t always the same thing.”

Rob Maloney: From Being Important to Being Useful