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Re:The unreasonable effectiveness of one-on-ones by jmchuster on Monday January 31, 2022 @04:43PM (#30154895)
From the employee standpoint, that means they've never tried to achieve the goals layed out by the company and their managers?

And from the manager standpoint, that means that they've never tried to assign work that matches up with the interests of people they manage?

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Re:The unreasonable effectiveness of one-on-ones by thethought on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @01:35AM (#30159311)
Seems asymmetrical the way it’s phrased.

Did you simply mean to say both fucked up?

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Re:The unreasonable effectiveness of one-on-ones by jmchuster on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @02:08AM (#30159494)
The parent theorized there was no way for a 1:1 to be effective because there are no overlapping common goals and incentives between managers and employees. So then I've presented two common examples of how such goals might exist.

I would be surprised to find that neither of these have ever applied. That would seem to indicate that their entire professional working experience has been only ever adversarial and toxic. Just not a great look, especially if you've also been responsible from the manager side.

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