The One-on-One That Is Just Coffee

The Buddy’s one-on-ones are the best on the floor. Thirty minutes, no agenda, how was your weekend, how are you really doing. People leave them feeling seen. Here is what they never leave with: anything hard. The deadline that slipped does not come up. The thing he noticed in the meeting does not come up. He thinks the warmth is the relationship. It is the thing he has substituted for one, because a relationship where only one kind of thing can be said is not a relationship. It is a waiting room.

Tomorrow: the Buddy from another angle.

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