The Missed Meeting: What One Conversation Reveals About Everything Else

Most one-on-one meetings are a waste of time. Yours might be telling you something worse.

When a direct report gives you one-word answers, shows up unprepared, or seems checked out, that is not an attitude problem. That is a signal. And most managers miss it entirely.

The Missed Meeting reveals what your one-on-ones are really communicating about your team's engagement, trust, and performance and delivers a science-backed framework to fix it.

Drawing on four decades of research in Self-Determi...