A Tale of Two Beehives
Leveraging the Power of Engagement and Working Culture
Editorial Review
Do you sometimes feel that you are not efficient enough to be a leader? Do you feel that everything has gone out of hands, and you can’t manage it anymore? Maintaining change seems out of reach? Learn how to turn things around by creating a culture of engagement that provides satisfaction, fulfillment and recognition in A Tale of Two Beehives. A Tale of Two Beehives brings new insights to an important topic – employee engagement and working culture. The contemporary corporate fable is written in an engaging style that tells us how to be better leaders in today’s competitive market and provides tactics on leading the organization working culture. When you achieve employee engagement, profitability will often follow, and you can implement new methods for your own team’s success.
Book Reviews
Books on Related Topics
There is a naturally occurring pattern, a way of thinking, acting and communicating that makes some leaders able to inspire others. Those leaders may have come into the world with a predisposition to inspire. However, this ability is not reserved for them exclusively. We can all learn this way of thinking
Winning from Within combines insights from Western psychology and Eastern philosophy with practical applications from real business situations and everyday life. Fox shows that the ability to achieve mastery over how we interact with each other comes from within, from the center where desires, thoughts, feelings, and impulses to take action
Every human being needs to undergo an intellectual journey that will span the remaining course of their life and help them develop their emotional and character integrity. The idea here is to combine personal change with organizational change. A leader can attain a positive, organizational change only after they engage in
Wisdom to Share
There are two kinds of hives. The old-fashioned kind is where you have an authority figure at the top. The leader collects business information, makes decisions, and issues directions to subordinates. The other type of organization is one that’s structured more like a team. The CEO is the coach.
Your website—and your social media accounts—can be like a window into your company. You can see your customers, and they can see you.
One of the advantages of social media is the low cost. Rather than spending millions of dollars for a World Cup TV ad, for example, we’ve learned to generate interest by creating viral content and encouraging shares and likes.
At Venus hive, if a bee made a mistake, they would work together on fixing it without blaming or firing that bee. They would recognize a series of mistakes all along the process of development and production and work on making changes. They embraced the concept of “Be a coach, not a boss.”
At Venus hive, if a bee made a mistake, they would work together on fixing it without blaming or firing that bee. They would recognize a series of mistakes all along the process of development and production and work on making changes. They embraced the concept of “Be a coach, not a boss.”
At Venus hive, they conducted daily meetings that lasted only for 10 minutes. It went around three main questions: “What did I accomplish yesterday?” “What will I do today?” And “what obstacles are impeding my progress?”
At Venus hive, they would cover for each other and show appreciation, while at Minerva hive; managers only exerted their authority on employees. They would never show gratitude for any good job done. They looked for authority, dominance and power.
At Venus hive, they had SMART goals. SMART was an acronym that stood for specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Specific was to avoid generalities. Measurable was to know how to measure success. Achievable meant that accomplishing the goal was within the hive’s realm of authority and capabilities. Relevant meant that the goal should be met and could be met. And time-bound showed the importance of time.
“What do you think is the most important key to achieving employee engagement?” Susan asked the queen. The queen answered, “It’s in hiring the right people.”
We couldn't find public videos for this title. Please check back later.
