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The Rule
The 2 pizza rule is a guideline for deciding how many attendees should be invited to a meeting. According to the rule, every meeting should be small enough that attendees could be fed with two large pizzas.
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The Hippo
An important goal of the 2 pizza rule is to prevent groupthink, a phenomenon that occurs when a large group’s need for consensus overrides the judgment of individual group members.
The rule also discourages HiPPO, an acronym that stands for the "highest paid person’...
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The Optimal Number of Team Members
After devoting nearly 50 years to the study of team performance, the late Harvard researcher J. Richard Hackman concluded that four to six is the optimal number of members for a project team and no work team should have more than 10 members.
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Jeff Bezos ideology
The 2 pizza rule is often credited to Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon. Bezos is known to have used 'two pizza' meetings and small project teams to foster a decentralized, creative working environment when Amazon was a startup. He decided to keep meetings small in order to e...
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In the early days of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO, instilled the following rule:
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- Clarity about his purpose and position helps Jeff Bezos get things done.
- Recognizing meetings are prospective time-wasters, Bezos steers clear of meetings that are not needed.
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Meetings with too many people
Five people can have a productive meeting, but 300 people can't.
Jeff Bezos uses the two-pizza rule to decide if he will attend a meeting: He will only attend if two pizzas can feed the whole group. The basic idea is that one should consider where to draw the line...
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