The Best Companies Are Gamers Eating Pizza
Every company is a two-player game and the best organizations have a structure like a pizza.
Bring your business structure to the next level for more fun at work.
In my last business, I was fortunate to work with Fabio on my team.
He was our Geeks & Culture Manager.
Yes, we had a lot of fun inventing our titles. 😂
Together, we designed a lot of the company's culture.
We noticed it took new starters a long time to understand how we operated and worked together.
This is when Fabio found the pizza model and extended it with our two-player company metaphor.
It was the perfect fit for our company—gamers eating pizza.
I can't stress enough how important it is for everyone on the team to understand your culture.
So, I would say the pizza model is the best organizational structure for any company.
Let's take a bite and see why pizza and games are good for business.
I hate organizational charts.
They contain no information that helps me:
- build better products,
- make my customers happy,
- or have more fun working.
I can read someone's rank and sometimes decision-making power from an organizational chart.
It tells me where I am in the food chain compared to my colleagues.
How is my rank of any use?
The pizza model is another way of representing my company's organizational chart.
In the pizza model, I replace hierarchies with each person's ownership.
The Pizza Model
Benefits of the Pizza Model
It has a lot of benefits if my company is a pizza instead of an organizational chart:
- Everyone's goals and ownership are clear.
- There is no space for political agendas.
- There are no hierarchy ladders to climb.
- There are no empires to build.
