One-on-ones with executives

Re:One-on-ones with executives by CityOfThrowaway on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @11:20AM (#32825461)

"Trust, but verify"

If the executive is consistently reaching across the organization that's a bad thing. If they do it once in a while to ensure they have made good staffing decisions, that's a good thing.

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Re:One-on-ones with executives by laserlight on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @03:00PM (#32828762)

> Trust, but verify.

I don’t like that “but”. It implies trust and verification are opposites. To the contrary, verification is there to ensure that trust is not hurt in case of a mistake, misunderstanding, or whatever. “Trust and verify” is much better.

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Re:One-on-ones with executives by JohnFen on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @04:07PM (#32829574)

Thank you for this. "Trust but verify" never made any sense to me at all. If you have to verify, then there is no trust.

Ensuring that there hasn't been a misunderstanding makes a lot more sense. "Verify" is still a misleading word in that equation, though.

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