Learn management wisdom from bees: how do bees keep growing for a long time?

Humans have been keeping bees for thousands of years, which is enough to make us admire this creature. Dogs are loyal, cats are curious and bees are hardworking, which is the spiritual portrayal of today's businessmen. Bees are great organizers, risk evaders and distributed decision makers. In the fast-paced and complex financial hive we have built, what kind of people can swim in it and maintain excellent learning ability? In a blog post for Harvard Business Review, Michael o'malley, vice president of human capital at Sibson Consulting, said: With bees controlling risk management, o'malley pointed out that when a hive is too big to be used, the whole hive will move, just like a company. The hive "avoids the famine cycle after the feast" by constantly sending out "wild expeditions". Bees use their research and development budgets wisely. When the hive has to make important decisions, bees with different views "vote" through complicated dance movements (this is called "swing dance", really). What I like best about o'malley's article is that Hive has deployed a "well-trained career development plan". This is absolutely true! The hive may be an extremely complex organization, but it is also a family (in fact, this may make the problem more complicated). The role of bees in the hive changes with age. It all started in the nursery, which was fed and cared for by the older females and then played the same role as them. When another batch of bees are born, now a little older bees will train them. Next, its task is to store food and clean the hive. Finally, it will fly outside to look for pollen. When it is too old to cope with the work outside the hive, it will return to the hive and do more housework. Surprisingly, at every step of this process, a larger bee will take care of a smaller bee and teach it a link in the whole chain. The same is true of the Catholic family in structure. However, there is a key difference between honeycomb organizations and efficient enterprises (well, there are many differences, but please listen to me first) for three reasons: first, every job is tied to the age of bees; Second, those tasks undertaken by a single bee are repeated thousands of times throughout the hive; Finally, every job is vital to the continuous survival of the hive, but it is not reliable. Eliminate a generation of bees, do not feed, do not have a new generation of worker bees, do not clean, and the hive will be invaded by any animal (mainly wax moth and ants) that craves honey; Without nectar and honey, the hive will be in famine. What has disrupted this work cycle from generation to generation on a large scale? It's us humans. "If you shorten the life span of bees, only a few days, and young bees have to be taken into the wild, then the whole thing will be in chaos," Dave hackenberg told me. He runs an industrialized pollination service company, and the business of the company is very interesting: hackenberg keeps many bees and rents beehives to farmers whose crops need pollination. There is nothing better for crops than bee pollination. But it's not that simple. The problem is that those crops carry pesticides, which will shorten the life span of bees, just for a few days, but the whole thing is messed up. It's totally screwed up. When this happens, the whole hive will collapse. This kind of thing happens frequently recently, and it has a formal name and abbreviation: Colony Failure Disorder (CCD). As a result, this organized and hard-working insect that I admire is being killed by our industrialization process. Ironically, the increasing scarcity of beehives has increased the rent of beehives pollinated by industrialized crops. We may learn some lessons from it. Excessive complexity may accelerate the collapse of the organization, or the means we use to protect ourselves may be the most harmful, or everything is just interrelated. Let the bees judge what it is.