Olimova Mohinur

Further reading: 

1. Why Your One on One Needs a Meeting Agenda (+ 

making them great) 

 

4. Remember the “2 Pizza Rule” 

The larger a team grows, the more difficult it is to manage. 

Communication lines grow geometrically as your team 

scales: 

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A similar effect happens in meetings, where each person 

you add to the meeting makes it more and more difficult to 

come to any kind of meaningful decision or move forward 

on anything. 

It also can waste a lot of time and money, when you 

consider the wasted salaries of everyone in a meeting. 

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Jeff Bezos uses what he calls the “2 Pizza Rule” for these 

reasons. The basic idea is to never have more people in a 

meeting than what two pizzas can feed. With an average-

sized pizza typically being cut into eight slices, at a 

reasonable two slices per person, that’s eight people.  

More than eight people and communication tends to break 

down, meetings run too long, people get frustrated sitting 

around not being consistently engaged, and you end up 

wasting a lot of time. Your risk of having trouble finding a 

big enough conference room, or call issues in a video 

conference are much higher then as well. 

That’s why as part of planning for a meeting, these 

questions should be asked: 

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Who really needs to be here? 

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Who could simply be updated about what happened, 

but doesn’t need to attend? 

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Is anyone invited to this meeting that doesn’t really 

need to be? 

A little discipline on the invites to your meetings can go a 

long way toward improving the quality of them. 

 

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