the five habits of highly effective hives

8/4/2019 The Five Habits of Highly Effective Hives

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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

& LnguasRoberto Lico Reis

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