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The Wisdom of Bees: What the Hive Can Teach Business about Leadership, Efficiency, and Growth Hardcover – 13 May 2010

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  • Hardcover: 214 pages
  • Publisher: Portfolio (13 May 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 159184326X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1591843269
  • Product Dimensions: 18.6 x 16.8 x 2.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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HardCover. Pub Date: 2010 Pages: 240 Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated It seemed to me that the bees were working on the very same kinds of problems we are trying to solve How can large. Diverse groups work together in harmoniously and productively Perhaps we could take what the bees do so well and apply it to our institutions.When Michael O'Malley first took up beekeeping. he thought it would be a nice hobby to share with his ten-year-old son. But as he started to observe these industrious insects. he noticed that they do a lot more than just make honey. Bees not only work together to achieve a common goal but. in the process. create a highly coordinated. efficient. and remarkably productive organization. The hive behaved like a miniature but incredibly successful business.O 'Malley also realized that bees can actually teach managers a lot about how to run their o...

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4.0 out of 5 starsEnvironmentally sound business advice
By Mr. L. Biason on 5 Aug. 2010
Format: Hardcover
Well, I won't dwell on the specifics of this book other than consider it a further reminder that the narrow anthropocentric ideology that has screwed things up for the past decades ought to be revised in favour of a more humbly open-minded approach to our all-encompassing natural environment, from which we have very much to learn and about which we do know very little indeed; in fact, to date we have barely scratched the surface and - in the process - managed to overlook what is on display.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Management can bee easy 31 Oct. 2016
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It is an interesting comparison to the social work of bees and business organizations. The author has some fun with the text and yet still demonstrates a good correlation between the two. Good reading, particularly if you have an interest in bees.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Still chewing on it. 30 May 2013
By Maren LaSallean - Published on Amazon.com
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This book has a lot of good information that can definitely be used in every level of life from home, children, work and beekeeping. I kind of got bogged down in the weightiness of the information and had to re read a lot but overall it is a useful book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars educational book 6 April 2012
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This a great book to buy weather or not you have a
business. It has a ton of wonderful suggestions that can be used for everyday life. I never stop reading
and find something good in everybook. It is important
to keep ourselves educated at any age. If we pay attention to the bees we learn truely about leadership and working in harmony with each other.
Just buy the book.
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1.0 out of 5 stars A Beehive Isn't a Corporation 15 April 2012
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First off, this book has nothing to offer the would-be beekeeper. In the same category as "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People," this is the kind of book a corporate CEO picks up in an airport newsstand, hoping to glean a few gems of inspiration to bolster, perhaps, his or her subordinates. Unfortunately, to reach out to CEO's and managers, the author, a management consultant and beekeeper, presents the hive as analogous to a corporation with the queen bee as a benevolent ruler in charge, who magnanimously delegates authority and keeps the whole operation running smoothly. Alas, a beehive is nothing of the sort to those in the know. Although her pheromones play an organizational role, the queen bee is primarily a specialized, egg-laying machine, laying a thousand or more eggs a day, and she certainly doesn't tell the other bees what to do. In fact, if the the other worker bees feel she isn't satisfactorily fulfilling her task, they'll bump her off and raise up another queen to take her place. Rather than a model for the would-be capitalist, a beehive is more like a communistic cooperative in which each member subordinates themselves for the good of the whole and knows his or her particular task without being given any orders. No one visible to the eye is in charge of this superorganism and there isn't any one bee at the top. If bees have any wisdom to teach humankind, it won't be found by seeing them as something they simply are not. Faulty premises and stretched analogies sink this promising book.
4.0 out of 5 stars LEARN FROM ANYONE, INCLUDING THE BEES 16 Aug. 2014
By KHOO CHEOK KAU - Published on Amazon.com
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I had read an article on the wisdom of bees in a journal, but it was only yesterday the book caught my attention at a bookstore and I bought and read it on the day I came back home.
It may take a while to understand the behavior of bees for those who are unfamiliar with the study of bees. It will be better written if the author, Michael O'Malley begin with a short description of the behavior of bees in a more direct, plain manner, without giving too much statistics on the bees on page 2 of the book. It takes time to digest those numbers like pounds of nectar, etc.
The real stuff comes alive from Lesson 1 until Lesson 25. Comparing and contrasting the working of the bees to how the organization operates offer numerous truths which cannot be denied. The section at the end of every lesson, More Pollen, is useful as it enable the reader to apply the lessons taught. There are occasions when I nod my head in agreement in particular about collaboration at work in the organization. Managers and their employees have the tendency to operate within silos, and not as a community like the bees. Short term thinking creates win-lose outcomes. Overall, it is good to learn from anyone including the bees or any other creations by God. My suggestion to potential readers of this book is to read it with an open and critical mind. There are good gems from this book and like any other book it is not perfect.
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