{"id":333,"date":"2014-08-05T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2014\/08\/05\/microspeak-1-1-is-not-zero\/"},"modified":"2014-08-05T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T07:00:00","slug":"microspeak-1-1-is-not-zero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20140805-00\/?p=333","title":{"rendered":"Microspeak: 1 &#8211; 1 is not zero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his reddit AMA, <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.com\/html\/pacificnw\/2008177548_pacificpendgame14.html\"> Joe Belfiore<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/windowsphone\/comments\/24jtcy\/hi_im_joe_belfiore_from_the_windows_phone_team_ama\/ch7vtqx%22\"> wrote<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\"><p> i have regular 1-1 meetings with my counterparts in Office, Skype, Xbox. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> The little bit of jargon there is <i>1-1 meeting<\/i>. This is an abbreviation for <i>one-on-one meeting<\/i>, a common business practice wherein two people, typically <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/work-in-progress\/2013\/11\/11\/the-secret-to-effective-one-on-one-meetings-with-direct-reports\/\"> a manager and a direct report<\/a>, have a face-to-face meeting with no one else present. In the case Joe used, the meeting is not between a manager and a direct report but between two peers.\n The term is also abbreviated <i>1:1<\/i>, which like <i>1 &minus; 1<\/i> also looks like a bit of mathematical nonsense. But it&#8217;s not zero or one. It&#8217;s just an abbreviation for business jargon.\n Of course, Microspeak isn&#8217;t happy with the abbreviation as-is. Microspeak takes it further and nounifies the abbreviation. &#8220;I&#8217;ll bring that up in my 1&ndash;1 with Bob tomorrow&#8221; means &#8220;I&#8217;ll bring that up in my one-on-one meeting with Bob tomorrow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Note that the abbreviation <i>OOO<\/i> is not used to mean <i>one-on-one<\/i>. That abbreviation is used to mean <i>Out of the office<\/i>, although it is more commonly abbreviated <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/kclemson\/archive\/2003\/09\/25\/53795.aspx\"> OOF<\/a> at Microsoft. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[105,26],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-microspeak","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}