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Amazon's meeting strategies can be applied in various industries to enhance productivity and efficiency. The 'two-pizza rule' can be used to keep meetings small and focused, ensuring that everyone's voice is heard and decisions are made more quickly. The practice of starting meetings with a shared reading of a detailed memo can also be adopted to ensure everyone is on the same page, reducing misunderstandings and promoting high-quality discussions. Industries that require collaborative decision-making, such as tech, healthcare, and education, could particularly benefit from these strategies.
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In 2018, the Amazon CEO shared some insights into the company culture around meetings. For starters, he uses a "two-pizza rule" to keep meetings small. If two pizzas won't feed the room, there are too many people at the meeting. Bezos also requires all meetings to provide a six-page memo that everyone reads together in silence at the beginning of each meeting before discussing the topic in depth. This is to provide a high-quality conversation where everyone has the same key details to work from, like a study hall.
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