Agenda, structure and status report is not the way I usually see 1:1 being talked about. Contrast with Horowitz's [1]: "The key to a good one-on-one meeting is the understanding that it is the employee’s meeting rather than the manager’s meeting. This is the free-form meeting for all the pressing issues, brilliant ideas and chronic frustrations that do not fit neatly into status reports, email and other less personal and intimate mechanisms."

Not saying there's not a time and place for Ryan's style.

1 - http://bhorowitz.com/2012/08/30/one-on-one/

1' - http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2010/09/22/the_update_...