The Priorities of Getting it Right and Getting Along

By Peter DeMarco | September 18, 2020

Getting it Right and Getting Along are vital priorities to a good team and healthy organizational culture. “Getting it Right” means that we know the principles at stake and choose the correct action to fit the situation. “Getting Along” refers to how well and how correctly we relate toothers, particularly in relation to the action—the “it”—that has been chosen. Thoughtful, respectful, constructive (and sometimes heated) dialogue is often necessary to Getting it Right and Getting Along in an authentic way.

Think of the priorities as interacting along two axes. Get it Right is the vertical axis, reflecting people’s natural orientation toward what is true, good, even beautiful. Get Along is the horizontal axis, showing people’s need to relate to one another socially and in a healthy way. Properly practicing these two priorities form an arc that is the frontier where the leader makes optimal judgments about particular situations people so that results are achieved effectively and ethically. Putting the priorities of Getting it Right and Getting Along together is a necessary skill for a leader to be successful in the world today.