How Jeff Bezos keeps meetings productive: With a roulette-style wheel

Amazon is famous for trying new techniques to keep its meetings orderly and productive — CEO Jeff Bezos famously keeps meetings small by encouraging the ‘two-pizza rule’ meaning never have a meeting where two pizzas couldn’t feed the entire group.

However, that becomes a huge challenge as Amazon continues its pace of growth. A new blog entry from Amazon Web Services (AWS) details how the many divisions in their department had to come up with a clever solution to keep the regular weekly meeting productive. And thus, the Amazon Wheel was born.

It’s exactly what it sounds like: a roulette-style wheel, with the name of all the groups on it. Each week, the wheel is spun at the start of the meeting. The lucky (or perhaps unlucky) manager of whichever group it lands on is called on to present.

The wheel has now become a software project. Not only that, you can download it and try it for yourself, filling in your own spots on the wheel. Who knows, it could help you make your next dinner decision.