One On Ones

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Ross: Replace one-on-ones and private emails with open communication to eliminate politics
“And so when you are leading groups of people, if you want to reduce the amount of politics and people going off and, you know, forming side cliques and all this, stop having one-on-ones, have big meetings with everyone who you want to tell something and tell t…”
Jonathan Ross Jul 5, 2026 ▶ 17:28 Why Asking the Right Questions Is the Most Important Skill in the AI Age
IN DEPTH Insight
Small mixed-group feedback discussions are more constructive than traditional 1-on-1s
“Instead of one-on-ones, we try to do like smaller groups of discussions, like one-on-three or whatever, one-on-four. And we try to bring like people from within the team, but maybe someone who joined recently, someone who's been there for a while, someone who'…”
Gorkem Yurtseven Oct 22, 2025 ▶ 55:14 The pivot that paid off: How fal found explosive growth | Gorkem Yurtseven (Co-founder and CTO)
20VC Prediction Not checkable as stated
James Gibson: Revolut Business is cutting 1-on-1s to focus on product reviews
“I'm actually reducing them at the moment where we're pushing more into product reviews.”
James Gibson Sep 26, 2025 ▶ 22:05 20Product: Revolut Business $1BN Revenue: Five of the Biggest Product Lessons | How Revolut Structures Product and Design Teams | How Revolut Experiments and Invests in New Product Bets | How Revolut Ships Product So Fast with James Gibson
SAASTR Insight
Norton: Unstructured 'this is your time' one-on-ones are delinquent management
“So many people run one-on-ones as like, okay, this is your time. You know, I'm here to be a resource to you. I think that's a sort of a delinquent version of running one-on-ones. I prefer to give people a structure to use. And if you can bring some structure, …”
Kyle Norton Jan 29, 2025 ▶ 33:48 The RevOps Playbook: Owner.com CRO’s Secrets to Scaling
Shackleton: Discussing product work in 1-on-1s is an anti-pattern
“A lot of work and project work tends to get discussed in one on ones. And actually that's like an, it's really an anti pattern. It's a pattern you should try to avoid. So if you're talking to your manager about product work what's not happening in that moment …”
Lane Shackleton Oct 1, 2023 ▶ 53:17 What sets great teams apart | Lane Shackleton (CPO of Coda)
Cole: Refining marriage check-ins improved professional one-on-ones with her team
“It was rooted in one-on-ones that I already had with my team, but my one-on-ones with my team got better as my check-ins with my husband became more refined and consistent.”
Kat Cole Jun 21, 2022 ▶ 49:44 TKP Insights: Sex and Relationships
Kat Cole: Monthly relationship check-ins directly improved team one-on-ones
“And so we have done this every month since we met. It has been an incredible enabler to our relationship and then reverse engineered it to have a similar practice for my business. It was rooted in one-on-ones that I already had with my team, but my one-on-ones…”
Kat Cole Aug 10, 2021 ▶ 57:23 #117 Kat Cole: The Power of Possible
Fournier: Regular one-on-ones prevent minor workplace issues from causing resignations
“The reason that you have one-on-ones, the reason that you try very hard to honor whatever frequency is the right frequency for your team, Even if you don't have anything planned to talk about is that like, you need to make it comfortable for them to feel like …”
Camille Fournier Jul 17, 2019 ▶ 7:58 Camille Fournier on Managing Technical Teams · Y Combinator

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