# Goal Setting Okrs

Help users establish high-impact goals that bridge the gap between abstract company...

- Repository: https://github.com/RefoundAI/lenny-skills (1456 stars)
- Category: Engineering
- License: MIT
- Last updated: 2026-07-16
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add RefoundAI/lenny-skills --skill goal-setting-okrs -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add RefoundAI/lenny-skills --skill goal-setting-okrs -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add RefoundAI/lenny-skills --skill goal-setting-okrs -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add RefoundAI/lenny-skills --skill goal-setting-okrs -g -a gemini-cli -y`

## Description

Help users establish high-impact goals that bridge the gap between abstract company vision and daily execution while maintaining radical focus.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# Goal Setting and OKRs

Drive organizational focus by translating long-term strategy into ambitious measurable outcomes.

Help the user with goal setting and okrs using insights from 19 guests and posts across Lenny's Podcast and Newsletter.

## How to Help

1. **Contextualize the Hierarchy** - Help the user map their current mission and vision down to specific measurable goals.
2. **Calibrate Ambition** - Guide the user in setting crazy big goals while identifying the first microscopic steps needed to start.
3. **Validate Metric Selection** - Ensure chosen metrics are predictive of user success and based on absolute volume rather than easily gamed percentages.
4. **Draft Success Headlines** - Assist in writing qualitative headlines that describe the desired state of the product by the end of the period.

## Core Principles

### Absolute Volume Growth
Archie Abrams: "When you have teams naturally break up the world into different funnel stages or different points in the journey, it gets very seductive to look at my part of the funnel and what's my conversion rate through that part of the funnel, right? And then the team starts to optimize for that conversion rate as their north star. But in practice, it's actually almost always easier to just make it harder to do the thing right before your step in the funnel to increase your conversion rate."

Focus on total users hitting milestones rather than conversion rates. This prevents teams from gaming metrics by narrowing the top of the funnel to artificially inflate percentages.

### Radical Focus
Christina Wodtke: "It creates alignment. There's no question what the single most important thing to do in the company is, assuming you're doing radical focus and you don't have 20 OKRs every quarter."

Limit the number of OKRs to ensure the team is not spreading resources too thin. Focus on the single most important priority to drive real movement every quarter.

The rest: https://github.com/RefoundAI/lenny-skills/blob/HEAD/skills/goal-setting-okrs/SKILL.md