Speaker 1: Helping leaders motivate their people to a higher level of
Speaker 1: performance through strong human relations, team building, and goal achieving.
Speaker 1: This is the seven Minute Leadership Podcast with your host
Speaker 1: Paul Fellovledo.
Speaker 2: Hello everyone, and welcome to the seven Minute Leadership Podcast.
Speaker 2: It's episode two fifty nine. Today we're talking about a
Speaker 2: simple yet highly effective leadership principle, the two pizza rule,
Speaker 2: and if you haven't heard of it before, this idea
Speaker 2: comes from Jeff Bezos, who famously said that if two
Speaker 2: pizzas are not enough to feed your meeting or work group,
Speaker 2: then the group is too big. It's a straightforward concept,
Speaker 2: but it carries a powerful message about efficiency, decision making,
Speaker 2: in the value of time. Meetings are one of the
Speaker 2: biggests on productivity in any organization. We've all been in
Speaker 2: meetings that could have been emails or ones where too
Speaker 2: many voices created chaos instead of progress and nothing got accomplished.
Speaker 2: The two pizza rule keeps meeting small, focused and effective.
Speaker 2: A smaller group means three key points. Number one, faster
Speaker 2: decision making, the fewer people involved, the quicker you can
Speaker 2: reach a conclusion or a decision, which means you can
Speaker 2: actually get things done. There's nothing that drives me more
Speaker 2: crazy than when we have to revisit topics at follow
Speaker 2: up meetings because no decision could be made at the
Speaker 2: last meeting. When too many people are in a room,
Speaker 2: discussions drag on and nothing gets finalized, oftentimes leading to
Speaker 2: tabling key important issues for later. And number two is
Speaker 2: more engagement. In a big meeting, people tune out. With
Speaker 2: small groups, everyone has a voice in their input actually matters.
Speaker 2: And number three is less wasted time. If fifteen people
Speaker 2: are in a one hour meeting, that's fifteen hours of
Speaker 2: lost productivity. By keeping meetings smaller, you ensure only the
Speaker 2: necessary people are involved, allowing others to stay focused on
Speaker 2: their work. So how do you use the two pizza
Speaker 2: rule effectively? So invite only the essential people. Before scheduling
Speaker 2: a meeting, ask yourself who absolutely needs to be here.
Speaker 2: If their presence won't impact the decision or discussion, they
Speaker 2: don't need to attend, and that might be a hard
Speaker 2: pill for some people to swallow. And then you have
Speaker 2: to define the goal. Every meeting should have a clear purpose.
Speaker 2: If you can't define the goal in one or two sentences,
Speaker 2: then you probably don't need to have the meeting or
Speaker 2: you're over complicating the issue, and then encourage small team collaboration,
Speaker 2: break large groups into smaller teams that can tackle problems efficiently,
Speaker 2: then bring their recommendations to leadership, and use other communication methods.
Speaker 2: Not everything requires a meeting. If an email, a quick call,
Speaker 2: or a group chat can solve the problem, use that
Speaker 2: method instead. As a leader, your time in the time
Speaker 2: of your team is one of the most valuable resources
Speaker 2: you have. Wasting it on bloated, ineffective meetings is not
Speaker 2: just frustrating, it's inefficient, and it's costly. If you follow
Speaker 2: the two pizza rule, you empower your team to spend
Speaker 2: more time executing and being focused in less time sitting
Speaker 2: through unnecessary discussions that oftentimes don't lead to productive decisions.
Speaker 2: A meeting should drive action, not stall it. When you
Speaker 2: keep your meetings small and intentional, you'll notice faster decision making,
Speaker 2: clearer communication, and a team that feels more engaged and valued.
Speaker 2: So the two pizza rule. If you're struggling with meeting
Speaker 2: attendee overload, challenge yourself this week to trim your attendee
Speaker 2: list to find your objectives clearly, and ask is this
Speaker 2: meeting really necessary? You might be surprised at how much
Speaker 2: time you free up just by implementing this one small change,
Speaker 2: and how much more productive your meetings actually are when
Speaker 2: you trim the attendee list. And remember, leadership isn't about
Speaker 2: filling calendars, It's about getting results. And don't forget to
Speaker 2: find out what everyone's favorite toppings are. This has been
Speaker 2: the seven Minute Leadership Podcast and I thank you for listening.
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