A lot of the ideas and heuristics for one-on-ones came from “high output management” which was published in 1983. I’ve been doing this tech stuff a long time.

A lot of the ideas and heuristics for one-on-ones came from “high output management” which was published in 1983. I’ve been doing this tech stuff a long time. Companies I worked at started doing regular 1 on 1s before regular use of instant messaging. More importantly, the heuristics most use for 1 on 1s clearly came before use of instant messaging and digital collaboration tools.