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Leading Org Change

by RefoundAI in RefoundAI/lenny-skills

Help users navigate complex transitions, from scaling new business units to managing crises and driving AI adoption across large organizations.

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Install Leading Org Change

skills CLI
$ npx skills add RefoundAI/lenny-skills --skill leading-org-change -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install RefoundAI/lenny-skills leading-org-change --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/RefoundAI/lenny-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/leading-org-change .claude/skills/leading-org-change && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
leading-org-change
GitHub stars
1.4k
Token cost
~1.8k tokens
SKILL.md length
995 words
Files
3 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
76
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Help users navigate complex transitions, from scaling new business units to managing crises and driving AI adoption across large organizations.

  • Works in 4 steps: Diagnose the friction - Identify whether… → Align stakeholders - Map key influencers… → Structure the rollout - Design phased… → …
  • SKILL.md covers How to Help, Core Principles, Templates & Frameworks and Questions to Help Users, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Leading Org Change is an agent skill from RefoundAI/lenny-skills. Help users navigate complex transitions, from scaling new business units to managing crises and driving AI adoption across large organizations.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.8k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 3 other files, including reference files (for example `references/artifacts.md` and `references/guest-insights.md`).

The repository describes itself as: 86 product management skills from Lenny's Podcast for Claude Code and AI agents. Hiring, user research, strategy, shipping, and more. The licence is MIT.

Example prompts

  • “/leading-org-change”

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Diagnose the friction - Identify whether the change is driven by growth, crisis, or technological shifts to determine the right posture.
  2. Align stakeholders - Map key influencers and translate product principles into language that resonates with different departments.
  3. Structure the rollout - Design phased implementations, from small-scale pilots and isolated teams to company-wide adoption.
  4. Establish rituals - Create feedback loops and cultural milestones to cement the change into daily operations.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 13598cc. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Leading Org Change loads about 1.8k tokens when it runs, and up to ~24k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 41 tokens; SKILL.md has 995 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~41
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.8k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~24k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from RefoundAI/lenny-skills at commit 13598cc, republished under its MIT licence (© RefoundAI). 995 words, ~1,778 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/leading-org-change/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 2 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
leading-org-change
description
Help users navigate complex transitions, from scaling new business units to managing crises and driving AI adoption across large organizations.

Leading Organizational Change

Transform culture, structure, and operations without breaking the business.

Help the user with leading organizational change using insights from 29 guests and posts across Lenny's Podcast and Newsletter.

How to Help

  1. Diagnose the friction - Identify whether the change is driven by growth, crisis, or technological shifts to determine the right posture.
  2. Align stakeholders - Map key influencers and translate product principles into language that resonates with different departments.
  3. Structure the rollout - Design phased implementations, from small-scale pilots and isolated teams to company-wide adoption.
  4. Establish rituals - Create feedback loops and cultural milestones to cement the change into daily operations.

Core Principles

Act as a gardener, not a builder

Alex Komoroske: "What I look for instead are things that can be gardened, things that can grow on their own and that you can direct or maybe give a little bit of extra energy to or curate over, and is a totally different mindset for it. If you do this properly, it looks like magic."

Nurture emergent, self-sustaining ideas rather than forcing rigid structures. Identify low-risk projects that can grow independently with minimal intervention.

Prioritize internal alignment over external research

Chris Hutchins: "But you think that customer research is all you need to build a product at a company, but figuring out how to create excitement internally and get buy-in from other teams because they're the ones that are going to build it. They're the ones that are going to help market. It's all a team effort."

Innovation within large orgs requires a shift in focus toward intensive internal alignment. State your vision at every opportunity to keep the team inspired.

Target sacred cows

Kayvon Beykpour: "The sacred cows are like their own roadmap. What are all the things that you think we're not allowed to change? Let's start there."

Explicitly identify and target the unwritten rules and perceived constraints that prevent the team from taking creative risks.

Humanize difficult transitions

Matt Mochary: "The biggest marker that I've seen between a botched layoff and a successful layoff is at the moment someone hears that they no longer have a job, did they hear it from their manager in a one-on-one? If that's when they heard it, it'll be okay. But if they heard it in an email, in a group chat, in any kind of thing where they were sitting next to or they're hearing it along with other people, it wasn't personalized, it wasn't one-on-one, that is terrible. That's when people get really angry and that's when they start going on to Twitter and going to newspapers and et cetera, because it feels dehumanizing."

The success of a major change, like a layoff, is determined by whether the news is delivered personally by managers rather than through mass announcements.

Prioritize value over frameworks

Melissa Perri: "I do not recommend using SAFe. Every single person I have talked to who likes SAFe, found success with SAFe, they ended up ripping it up and making it into something else."

Avoid dogmatic implementations of scaling frameworks. Focus on core agile principles like rapid iteration and delivering customer value.

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Templates & Frameworks

  • Five Factors for Adaptive Resilience During Change (Surviving reorgs, tactically and emotionally - Issue 32) - A framework combining Dr. Michael Cavanagh's Four-Factor Model (Perspective, Purpose, Dialogue, Mindfulness) plus Katherine Hosie's addition of Humor, for build
  • Bridges' Transition Model (Ending → Neutral Zone → New Beginning) (Surviving reorgs, tactically and emotionally - Issue 32) - William Bridges' three-stage model for understanding any transition, used here to explain why constant reorgs create 'transition fatigue' when you're stuck in t
  • Ally Mapping for Organizational Change (Turning around an underperforming team - Issue 17) - A framework for categorizing stakeholders into three groups when driving change on a team.
  • Bureaucracy Mirror Doc (This Week #9: Breaking into growth, leading with influence, and (not) stepping on toes 🦶) - A doc or deck format for highlighting organizational inefficiency and proposing fixes
  • Internal Team Communication During Crisis Checklist (Leading your company through a pandemic - Issue 20) - Guidelines for maintaining team morale and trust through transparent communication during uncertainty
  • KPI + Narrative Leadership Model (Tim Holley) - Josh Silverman's approach to driving organizational change by combining a clear KPI with a consistent narrative repeated over time
  • Motivation Mapping for Change Management (Turning around an underperforming team - Issue 17) - A framework for connecting proposed team changes to individual team members' personal motivations to build intrinsic buy-in.
  • Three-Step Layoff Process (Matt Mochary) - A step-by-step guide to conducting a company-wide layoff that minimizes trauma.
  • Give Away Your Legos (Scaling Metaphor) (Essential reading for product builders—part 2) - A mental model for managing the emotional challenge of scaling teams—instead of grabbing back responsibilities from new hires, find bigger problems to solve.

See references/artifacts.md for the full list with details.

Questions to Help Users

  • "What specific unwritten rules or constraints are currently preventing your team from changing?"
  • "Is this change being driven by a growth opportunity, a defensive crisis, or a technological shift like AI?"
  • "How are you protecting your new innovation teams from standard corporate performance management?"
  • "What is the core principle of your founder that must be preserved during this transition?"
  • "Have you mapped out your internal stakeholders to identify who will be your champions versus your skeptics?"
  • "Are you delivering high-impact news personally, or relying on mass communication channels?"

Common Mistakes to Flag

  • Copying operational rituals blindly - Adopting the processes of companies like Amazon or Netflix without understanding their context leads to cultural rejection.
  • Reflecting high-level stress - Leaders who project their own anxiety onto the team cause paralysis rather than productive urgency during a crisis.
  • Over-investing in rigid frameworks - Focusing on process adherence rather than customer value delivery leads to bloated organizations that cannot innovate.
  • Hiding the difficulty - Minimizing the reality of a hard situation destroys trust; employees need leaders to acknowledge struggle while affirming their ability to handle it.

Deep Dive

For all 50 sourced insights from 29 guests, see references/guest-insights.md

  • Hiring Product Talent
  • Interviewing Evaluating Candidates
  • Org Design
  • Building Growth Team

© RefoundAI, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 2 other files (references) in skills/leading-org-change of RefoundAI/lenny-skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/artifacts.md
  • references/guest-insights.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 13598cc

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Questions about Leading Org Change

What does Leading Org Change do?

Help users navigate complex transitions, from scaling new business units to managing crises and driving AI adoption across large organizations. Leading Org Change is an agent skill from RefoundAI/lenny-skills. Help users navigate complex transitions, from scaling new business units to managing crises and driving AI adoption across large organizations.

How do I install Leading Org Change in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add RefoundAI/lenny-skills --skill leading-org-change -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/leading-org-change in RefoundAI/lenny-skills) into .claude/skills/leading-org-change in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Leading Org Change in Codex?

Run `npx skills add RefoundAI/lenny-skills --skill leading-org-change -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/leading-org-change in RefoundAI/lenny-skills) into .agents/skills/leading-org-change in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Leading Org Change in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add RefoundAI/lenny-skills --skill leading-org-change -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/leading-org-change, .gemini/skills/leading-org-change, .github/skills/leading-org-change and .opencode/skills/leading-org-change in your project.

What does Leading Org Change need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Leading Org Change is instructions for the agent only.

Does Leading Org Change access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Leading Org Change safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Leading Org Change use?

Leading Org Change is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Leading Org Change use?

About 1.8k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7.1k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 22k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

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Who maintains Leading Org Change?

RefoundAI (a GitHub organization) maintains it in RefoundAI/lenny-skills, which has 1,382 GitHub stars. The repository holds 76 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on July 16, 2026.

Source: RefoundAI/lenny-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.