The Prompt That Turns Goal Theater into Business Wins
Copy-paste workflow for goals that solve expensive problems
Hey Adopter,
Teams spend weeks crafting goals that sound professional but accomplish nothing measurable.
I sat through a quarterly planning session where a product team spent four hours debating whether their goal should be "enhance user engagement" or "optimize user experience metrics." Neither version told anyone what to actually do Monday morning.
Six months later, their app still had the same retention problems. Their goals looked impressive in PowerPoint. Reality stayed broken.
The SMART goals trap
The SMART framework works when used correctly. Most teams butcher it by focusing on format over function.
They create goals that check every SMART box while avoiding hard decisions about what actually needs fixing. Specific becomes verbose. Measurable becomes mathematical theater. Achievable becomes excuse-making.
Real SMART goals force uncomfortable conversations about priorities, resources, and accountability. Most teams skip those conversations and wonder why nothing changes.
What business-focused goals actually solve
Successful teams use goals to eliminate specific business problems. Not improve things generally. Not enhance capabilities broadly. Fix what's broken and measure the fix.
The best goals answer one question: "If we hit this target, which expensive problem disappears?"
Everything else is documentation.
The no-nonsense goal generator
This prompt cuts through corporate goal-setting theater and forces clarity from the start: