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💡⚙️📈 Fix Your OKRs Using AI

Published 5 days ago • 1 min read

Please don’t write your OKRs using AI. OKRs should reflect YOUR strategy. Your choices. Your strong opinion. Your tradeoffs.

What you CAN do is use AI to fix your OKRs.

Here are some ways you could go about doing that:

  1. Collaborate with AI to create a prompt that reflects your perspective on what makes great OKRs
  2. Point AI at an OKR expert you’re following and tell it to create a prompt based on that expert’s advice. (Your OKR Hot Seat with that expert)
  3. Point AI at a set of OKR experts and ask it to create a prompt to act as an OKR advisory board, weaving in the expertise/advice from the panel of experts.
  4. Read an OKR-related book or take an OKR-related workshop, and take notes in the form of an AI prompt.

Whatever way you create this prompt, I like to save it as context, for example, as instructions or a file attached to a Perplexity space.

One of the advantages of this approach is that it works even when using an enterprise LLM, which is often more secure but weaker than publicly available ones.

Once you create the prompt wherever you want, you can take it inside the firewall and use it on your enterprise OKRs without the risk of sharing your strategy and priorities with a public large language model (LLM).

P.S. I’m creating a ‘Fix Your OKRs’ AI prompt swipe file. Join the waiting list to get it when it’s ready.

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Yours,

Scaling w/ Agility

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