The Complete New Manager

72 Understand the Second Intent: Get It Right

Getting it right is another task-focused intent that influences behavior. Have you ever sought to avoid a mistake by doing everything possible to prevent it from happening? When getting it right is your highest priority, you slow things down enough to see the details. You probably take a good, long look before leaping—if you ever leap at all. You may avoid taking any action because you feel unsure about what might happen as a result.

When the intent to get it right becomes thwarted or threatened, everything around this person begins to seem haphazard and careless. To add insult to injury, people seem to address these concerns with increasingly fuzzy terms.

When sufficient intensity is reached, the ...