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Small teams work more efficiently and achieve greater success. This is claimed by the founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, who follows the rule of two pizzas in business. If his team needed more food, he would reorganize it.
Six to ten people can eat two pizzas comfortably, without feeling full or, on the contrary, hungry. And this is exactly the size of the team that should be ideal.
Jeff Bezos came up with the idea (calculation) and immediately applied it in his business. Since then, dozens of other employers have implemented it. Several scientific teams have also investigated the actual effectiveness of the two-pizza rule.
The result? Teams of six to ten people are actually more effective than having just one more in a meeting. The same applies to a smaller number of people.
More heads know more, but...
What do work meetings and meetings look like for you? Are they effective, full-value and at the same time meaningful for all involved? Will everyone get to speak? Is his word, opinion, idea taken seriously or will it be lost in the flood of other colleagues' words? Is everyone really getting involved or are some employees just sitting it out?
All these questions and obstacles disappear when there are as many people at a meeting as eat two pizzas. They know how to listen to each other, complement each other, give counter-arguments - simply the whole debate is effective. And it doesn't matter whether the results of the previous period are evaluated or a solution to the current problem is sought.
J. Bezos claims that all the innovations that Amazon has come up with over the decades have been created in team meetings with a small number of people. It is true that more heads know more, but too many heads cause chaos.
What about mutual cooperation?
This, of course, does not exclude the need and meaningfulness of meeting people across departments, teambuilding or other HR activities aimed at employees getting to know each other, strengthening the collective or strengthening loyalty to the employer.
It is extremely important that all employees from all departments know about all important things in the company. To keep them informed, feel included and part of the team. In addition to meetings (with smaller teams), company days, family days or various team building activities are used for this.
Even during them, the two-pizza rule can be applied. After the joint meeting, where basic important information is given, people are divided into smaller groups where they can further discuss, come up with ideas or get to know each other.
Larger teams are slower, administrative obstacles, but also interpersonal interactions can slow down and hinder all processes. Conversely, interactions within a smaller team are more relaxed, lively, personal and fast-paced, which encourages creativity and collaboration.
Employers who create the conditions for meeting teams so large that two pizzas are enough gain many advantages compared to the competition (innovation, new products and services that are introduced to the market in a relatively short time) and at the same time increase their credit as an employer , because employees feel important and beneficial to the company.
