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The Hive Mind at Work
Siobhan McHale
3.86 (22 Reviews)
Corp Culture
Leadership
Business
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Discover how organizations function like beehives in McHale's groundbreaking guide. Featured as a Harvard case study, this book reveals nine laws of group dynamics used by Amazon and SpaceX. What hidden patterns are sabotaging your team's potential?

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When Organizations Buzz Like Beehives: The Hidden Patterns That Transform Companies

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What if the secret to transforming your struggling company was hiding in a beehive? Growing up on an Irish farm, watching bees work with uncanny precision, one insight changed everything: these tiny creatures weren't just making honey-they were demonstrating the most sophisticated form of collective intelligence on Earth. Fast-forward three decades, and this farm girl had become the executive who helped lift ANZ Bank from industry laggard to global sustainability leader. The revelation? Your organization isn't a machine to be fixed or a network to be influenced. It's a living ecosystem that thrives or dies based on invisible patterns most leaders never see. Microsoft's Satya Nadella understood this when he orchestrated one of history's greatest corporate turnarounds, transforming a stagnant giant into a trillion-dollar innovation powerhouse. Think your workplace chaos is random? It's not. Just as Karl von Frisch won a Nobel Prize for decoding how bees perform a "waggle dance" to share food locations, organizations follow nine predictable laws that determine success or failure. When a bee faces danger, it releases an alarm pheromone that smells like bananas, instantly mobilizing the entire colony. Your organization works the same way-every action ripples outward like dropping a stone in water. The question isn't whether your organization has these hidden patterns-it's whether you can see them before they destroy you.

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The Laws of Organizational Ecosystems and the Intelligence That Matters

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Seeing the Invisible Patterns and Building the Case That Actually Moves People

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The Courage to Experiment, Tap Collective Wisdom, and Distribute Leadership

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The Gentle Power of Nudging and Reaching the Tipping Point

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Building the Infrastructure That Makes Change Permanent

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The Marathon Mentality That Outlasts Every Sprint

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