The Old New Thing

Microspeak: 1 – 1 is not zero

August 5, 2014 Aug 5, 2014 08/5/14

Raymond Chen

In his reddit AMA, Joe Belfiore wrote i have regular 1-1 meetings with my counterparts in Office, Skype, Xbox. The little bit of jargon there is 1-1 meeting. This is an abbreviation for one-on-one meeting, a common business practice wherein two people, typically a manager and a direct report, have a face-to-face meeting with no one else ...