While the times always fill up, the practice also creates a sense of accessibility for team members who never take advantage of the time slots. One-to-one meetings are open-ended, strategic conversations with one person on your team. They aren’t goals check-ins or task management but focus on broad topics, such as the vision for a product or feature, leadership development or cultural troubleshooting. One time at Pinterest their CEO accidentally sent out the meeting notes from an executive meeting to the entire company.
Key Takeaways:
- Michael Lopp has worked for Apple, Pinterest, Peter Thiel’s shadowy intel company—Palantir and now he runs the engineering team at Slack, the cloud-based intranet service.
- It turns out that this high level tech exec also likes playing Destiny, the first person shooter from Activision.
- Playing online has taught him a lot about leadership, because it encourages the kind of teamwork that requires someone to take the helm.
“It turns out that this high level tech exec also likes playing Destiny, the first person shooter from Activision.”
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