Goofy Corporate News You Can Use

I know, I know: I could be getting all bent out of shape over Ted Cruz’s escape to Cancun during the recent Texas ice storm. Or I could be gloating over Rush Limbaugh’s final demise. But I’m not gonna do it.  My heart’s just not in it.  Instead, I’m gonna focus on some goofy corporate news you can use. Why?  Because that’s just how I roll. Also, it’s my blog, my rules. You got a problem with that? Good. I didn’t think so. Now sit up straight and pay attention.

Click-bait stories like this one I usually skip over. But, I dunno, something about the words “Oreo Doomsday Vault”  hooked me and drew me in. Just the thought of Oreos wrapped for posterity in mylar, locked inside a secret safe on a Norwegian island? Well, that appeals to my sweet tooth as well as my cockeyed sense of adventure. Also, it’s a cookie marketing man’s dream come true. So click and read, if you are so inclined. There are multiple stories about Elon Musk, of course: I consider him king of the corporate kooks. Also there is some good dirt on Facebook and Google, as well as Col. Sanders’ secret KFC recipe. But perhaps my favorite is Amazon’s “two-pizza rule,” reprinted below for your enjoyment.

 

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Pizza played a role in the foundational days of Amazon, when CEO Jeff Bezos was still just an online bookseller with a vision of world domination. Bezos knew smaller teams of people are more productive. The smaller the team, the less time it spends coordinating, and the more time it spends on the task at hand. Any company can scale up and down much much more easily if all that’s required is  add or remove small teams from any given effort. Bezos established the two-pizza rule, which would become part of Amazon’s philosophical bedrock: Two pizzas should be enough to feed any team in one sitting. If more pizza is required, or if people are still hungry, the team is too big. Today, Amazon is the world’s biggest online retailer — but it’s actually just a huge collection of tiny teams. With pepperoni.

 

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All this and Oreos too – who could ask for anything more?

Not me, that’s for sure.