Many articles have been written about Jeff Bezos’ famous “Two Pizza Rule” for productive meetings. When there are too many people at a meeting, it will become less productive. Jeff’s remedy is never to have a meeting where two pizzas couldn’t feed the entire group. The concept makes sense, but how many people are too many?
Andy Grove’s (former Chairman and CEO of Intel) guidance is no more than eight. In his book “High Output Management,” he devoted a whole chapter to how to make meetings productive. Rather than looking at meetings as a waste of time, he suggested we use the time spent in them as efficiently as possible. Even though his book was written in 1983, much of it is still relevant today. In this edited extract from his book, I have compiled a list of suggestions from Andy on making meetings productive. I hope you will find it helpful, too. Read More...
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