Dave Kashen discusses how to set goals with a 66% success rate, balancing stretch and credibility. The conversation covers OKRs, target probabilities, and why specificity matters when defining outcomes for your organization.
Because some teams, you know, Google then was famous for the OKRs and their thing was two-thirds. So basically they were like, you know, you know, we want to set goals that we believe we have roughly 66% chance of achieving. And that's different than a team that might set goals that they have a 90% chance of achieving or 50% chance of achieving. And there's not like a right answer. I mean, there's some research I've seen where like 50% They recommended 50%. But I think it's useful to also just know thyself and be clear, like, what is the— how much risk is enlivening for us and how much is actually demotivating? So, there's not a right answer. Again, back to like, what's your authentic? This is something I really want and is in the realm of believable, even if it's a stretch. But not so much of a stretch that it's not, you know, it's not credible.
Yeah. And I think the other area related to this where I see people not, they're like not actually specific enough.
Yes.
And you know, we've done, it's like, how many clients actually? How many employees? What will the org chart look like? Like what is the actual vision and future of what you're trying to create? And I think when you lack specificity, you end up kind of again, creating what you came up with, which is this, it's not tight, you know?
