The Five Habits of Highly Effective Honeybees (and What We Can Learn from Them)
The Five Habits of Highly Effective Honeybees (and What We Can Learn from Them): From "Honeybee Democracy"
THOMAS D. SEELEY
Series: Princeton Shorts
Copyright Date: 2010
Edition: DGO - Digital original
Published by: Princeton University Press
Pages: 18
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The Five Habits of Highly Effective Honeybees (and What We Can Learn from Them)
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Studies of animal behavior have often been invoked to help explain and even guide human behavior. Think of Pavlov and his dogs or Goodall and her chimps. But, as these examples indicate, the tendency has been to focus on "higher," more cognitively developed, and thus, it is thought, more intelligent creatures than mindless, robotic insects. Not so! Learn here how honeybees work together to form a collective intelligence and even how they make decisions democratically. The wizzzzdom of crowds indeed! Here are five habits of effective groups that we can learn from these clever honeybees.

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eISBN: 978-1-4008-4116-5
Subjects: Zoology, Management & Organizational Behavior
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  1. THE FIVE HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE HONEYBEES AND WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM THEM
    THE FIVE HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE HONEYBEES AND WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM THEM (pp. 1-21)

    Let us now consider what lessons we humans can learn from honeybees about how to structure a decision-making group so that the knowledge and brainpower of its members is effectively marshaled to produce good collective choices. This is an important subject, for human society relies on groups to be more reliable than individuals when it comes to making weighty decisions. This is why we have juries, boards of trustees, blue-ribbon panels, and nine justices on the U.S. Supreme Court. But as we all know, groups don’t always make smart decisions either. Unless a group is properly organized, so...

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