Amazon Two-Pizza Teams
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1 min readAug 28, 2020
Source: Wall Street Journal
Published: October 2011
Amazon Two-Pizza Teams
Circulated: August 28, 2020
Founding Amazon, Jeff Bezos wanted a decentralized, even disorganized company where independent ideas would prevail over groupthink.
He instituted, as a company-wide rule, the concept of the “two-pizza team”: any team should be small enough that it could be fed with two pizzas.
The more people you pack into a team, the less productive the meetings of that team will likely be.
For each additional person over seven members in a decision-making group, decision effectiveness is reduced by approximately 10% (source: Bain & Company).
