The Five Habits of Highly Effective Hives

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 that their colonies are remarkably complex and democratic.

Life-or-Death Challenge
And every year, they are faced with some important life-or-death challenges:
Problem of choosing a new home.

Life-or-Death Challenge
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 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

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.

Remind the groups members of their shared Interests

Remind the group's members of their shared interests and foster mutual respect, so they work together productively. Working together productively avoids clashing situations and arguments.

Explore diverse solutions to the problem

Explore diverse solutions to the problem, to maximize the group's likelihood of uncovering an excellent option. The scout bees search far and wide to discover a broad assortment of possible living quarters.

Aggregate the group's knowledge through a frank debate

Use the power of a fair and open competition to distinguish good options from bad ones. The scout bees rely on a turbulent debate among groups supporting different options to identify a winner.

Minimize the leader's influence on the group's thinking

By functioning as an impartial moderator rather than a proselytizing boss, a leader enables 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.

Balance interdependence and independence among the group's members

Balance interdependence (information sharing) and independence (absence of peer pressure) among the group's members. Only if ideas are shared publicly but evaluated privately will the group be good at exploring its options and making good choices.

Conclusion
Even though an individual bee is not particularly intelligent, the collective intelligence of the group produces impressive results. Almost always about 90 percent of the time in important experiments the swarm chooses the best of the alternatives.

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