Do Managers Really Need to Do 1:1 Meetings?: Working Capital

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“Recurring meetings were meant to create alignment, but in reality they sap momentum. They become placeholders for progress rather than engines of it.”

As a manager who used to faithfully schedule weekly one-on-one meetings with direct reports (and frequently struggled with the follow-through), I read these lines in Bruce Daisley’s Make Work Better blog this month as both a provocation and blessed validation.

The statement was the synthesis of an interview Daisley recently did with serial entrepreneur Howard Lerman. He, too, used to cram his calendar with ...