Jeff Bezos has a two-pizza rule for Amazon workers that ensured company's success

Jeff Bezos has a rather unorthodox rule of ensuring success during the continued success Amazon.

Long before it was the global behemoth we recognise today, selling everything from groceries to home gym equipment, Amazon was a small online bookstore in Seattle, Washington.

At the time, nobody could've predicted what the company would later become but it seems that Bezos wasn't short of ambitions, with the CEO keen to introduce management techniques which ensure everyone within the company is able to work efficiently together.

Referred to as the two-pizza rule, Bezos asked that every internal team within the company should be no larger than a group of people able to be fed by two pizzas - roughly around five to eight people in total.

"We try to create teams that are no larger than can be fed by two pizzas," Bezos said of the idea.

"We call that the two-pizza team rule."

Now you may be wondering what an earth eating pizza has to do with running a business, but the idea of the two-pizza rule isn't about cutting down on food costs or delegate more work to less employees either.

In fact, the idea is actually that smaller groups of employees are able to work more efficiently as a team.

If implemented properly, Bezos argued the rule would create a more productive and collaborative team, which in turn gives them the edge over competitors when it comes to speed.

The Amazon boss has a very particular way of working. (Photo by Taylor Hill/Getty Images)

"A key factor in enabling constant innovation and speed in a two-pizza team structure is empowering them with a single-threaded focus," Amazon's Web Services page outlining the policy adds.

The strategy also allows for individual members of the team actively contribute to the project, which allows them a greater sense of ownership and empowerment over their work.

Bezos is also said to apply the same line of thinking to how many people should be in attendance at a meeting.

So no, Jeff Bezos' two-pizza rule does not mean Amazon employees are just sat around in groups eating pizza and talking about the impact that technological advancements will have on the world, it's a just time-management with a gimmicky name.

The tech company has grown massively in the past decade. (Dilara Irem Sancar/Anadolu via Getty Images)

The two-pizza rule isn't the only example of Bezos' unique approach to running his company either, with the CEO also implementing an 'unusual' meeting technique to make sure every employee is pulling their weight.

He's also been known to fire off some pretty strange questions in interviews as well, with one employee recalling how she was hired after just two questions.