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The Five Habits of
Highly Effective Hives
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Introduction
One of the popular
misconceptions about honey
bees is that their lives are
ruled by a queen.
After forty years studying
bees, scientists learned thattheir colonies are remarkably
complex and democratic.
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Life-or-Death
Challenge
And every year, theyare faced with some
important life-or-death
challenges:
Problem of choosing anew home.
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Life-or-Death Challenge
A bee returns to the
cluster and perform a
dance
A decision is taken based
on the number of the
bees that follows the
dance
The hive is overpopulated
10,000 Bees leave home
and gather in a branch
300 most experienced bees
take off searching for tree
cavities
Tree Cavity Features
10 meters off the ground
40 liters cavity
A bee discovers a
promising site
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Important
For millions of years, the bees
have faced the task of selecting
proper homes. Evolution by natural selection has
structured these insect search
committees so that they make the
best possible decisions.
What works well for bee can also
work well for human groups.
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Remind the groups members of
their shared Interests
Remind the group's
members of their shared
interests and foster mutualrespect, so they work
together productively.
Working togetherproductively avoids
clashing situations and
arguments.
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Explore diverse solutions to the
problem Explore diverse solutions to
the problem, to maximize
the group's likelihood ofuncovering an excellent
option.
The scout bees search farand wide to discover a
broad assortment of
possible living quarters.
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Aggregate the group's knowledge
through a frank debate
Use the power of a fair
and open competition todistinguish good options
from bad ones.
The scout bees rely on a
turbulent debate amonggroups supporting different
options to identify a
winner.
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Minimize the leader's influence on
the group's thinking By functioning as an impartial
moderator rather than a
proselytizing boss, a leaderenables his group to use its
combined knowledge and
brainpower.
The scout bees have no
dominating leader and so can
take a broad and deep look at
their options.
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Balance interdependence and
independence among the group's
members
Balance interdependence
(information sharing) andindependence (absence of peer
pressure) among the group's
members.
Only if ideas are shared publicly butevaluated privately will the group be
good at exploring its options and
making good choices.
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Conclusion
Even though an individual bee
is not particularly intelligent, the
collective intelligence of thegroup produces impressive
results.
Almost always about 90percent of the time in important
experiments the swarm
chooses the best of the
alternatives.
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Lico Reis Consultoria
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