The' 'Two Pizza Rule' Is Jeff Bezos' Secret To Productive Meetings

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The more people there are, the less productive most meetings will be.

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The idea is that most attendees will end up agreeing with each other instead of voicing their own opinions and own ideas.

Amazon's Jeff Bezos has a solution for this problem. He calls it the "two pizza rule": Never have a meeting where two pizzas couldn't feed the entire group.

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In fact, Bezos advises to only have meetings when absolutely necessary.

"[Bezos] wanted a decentralized, even disorganized company where independent ideas would prevail over groupthink," writes Richard Brandt at The Wall Street Journal.

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In The WSJ profile, Brandt interviews a former Amazon executive who recalls Bezos saying "communication is terrible!" during an offsite retreat.

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Disclosure: Jeff Bezos is an investor in Business Insider through his personal investment company Bezos Expeditions.