If two pizzas aren’t enough to feed the people in the room, there are too many people in the meeting. Meetings become inefficient and ineffective when there are 15-plus people in the room. Last year, during our brutal elimination of meetings, we also recalibrated who needed to be in the room and took one meeting from 12 people down to 8. The meeting was cut down to about 15 minutes. And focus and productivity increased.
