The Productivity Rule That Built Amazon

Hey, are you a business owner and are you struggling with your people inside of your company getting enough of the work done? I have a really simple system that I'm going to give you that'll help everyone work better together. The reason you're going to want to listen to this video is one of the six books that I've written is called Meeting Suck. And this concept is embedded about halfway through. And I can shortcut that for you and give it to you here. The second reason you want to listen is I actually scaled a company called 1-800-God-JUNK and and this system is one of the key ways that we grew that business as well. If you're not following the system that I'm going to walk you through, you're going to have a lot of people showing up at meetings that they shouldn't be at. You're going to have a lot of people being frustrated with the time that they're wasting. And you're going to have a lot of people getting over involved in things that they have no business being a part in. And one of the biggest problems that's going to come out of that for you if you don't follow this is the amount of money that is being wasted when this compounds itself over the 250 operating days over the course of a year. So when this problem compounds itself over the 250 operating days of the year, you're wasting a ton of money and this system is going to help you not waste that money in the future. This system is actually so powerful that Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, has used this rule every single day of operating that business. And you've seen how successful it's going to be. This system will really work inside of your company too. So the rule that we're going to talk about is the two pizza rule. Jeff Bezos, when he was building Amazon, put a rule in place that said that you can only invite people to a meeting if the total number of people coming to that meeting could be fed by two pizzas. And these are two normal sized pizzas. The reason for this rule is if you have so many people showing up at a meeting, nothing's going to get done. You're going to have way too many people to be involved into a discussion. You're going to have so many people showing up in a meeting that nobody's going to really be able to contribute. So the two pizza rule means you have to think critically about who should actually be showing up at that meeting. So here's the way that I actually execute this system day to day inside of the business. The first step is when we're booking a meeting, you teach people to think about the purpose of the meeting and a maximum of three outcomes that you're going to have during that specific meeting. What are the three big things you're going to get done? Then you create a short agenda. What are you going to cover? How many minutes are you going to spend on each agenda item? And who specifically do you need inside of the company to come in and have a discussion, have the debate, share their ideas and opinions, and don't invite any more than those specific people. And then use that two pizza rule as a final litmus test. At the end, after you've come up with the purpose, the outcomes and the agenda, just ask yourself, can all these people really be fed by two pizzas? Or are you inviting 14 people to a meeting that could really be handled by six? Now that you understand team sizes and the efficiency inside of your company, do you want to know how the top leaders grow their businesses to beat the competition? Watch this video next because I'll share these game changing tips with you.