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# You Can’t Get There
- URL: https://www.darlison.com/you-cant-get-there/
- Published: 2025-11-04T13:21:12.000Z
- Updated: 2026-02-20T19:23:05.000Z
- Description: You can't get from here to there if the structure doesn't support it.
- Author: Byron Darlison

Assuming you [know what you want](https://www.darlison.com/purpose/)—which in itself is a big ask—let's set that aside for now. To get what you want, you must:

- clearly state where you are going
- quantify what there is, give it a number
- have the right people in the right seats to help you get there
- continuously remind your people where there is
- give them one thing at a time to get done to get you there
- give them what they need to get that one thing done
- give them a number by which they can measure their contribution
- reward them for hitting that number and vice versa
- review their performance quarterly and change seats if underperforming for 2 quarters
- as a company review progress towards plan weekly, learn, and correct
- as a company review the plan quarterly, learn, and correct

If you are wandering, it isn’t the effort that is the problem, the root cause is the structure you have put in place. If it doesn’t look like the above, no matter what you do, you will zig and zag, and take forever to get what you want, or worse, never get it.