The Hive Mind at Work: Harnessing the Power of Group Intelligence to Create Meaningful and Lasting Change

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Learn a new model for understanding how organizations really operate and implement changes that get real results.With so many forces of change buffeting the business world today, a scary state of flux has replaced any sense of certainty, stability, and familiarity, delivering a wake-up call to make crucial changes happen, make them happen quickly, and make them stick. Traditional approaches to change management fall into one of two categories: Organizations function like machines, where managers pull change levers to &“fix&” problems with an engineer&’s mindset (IQ). Or People form social networks wherein individual &“influencers&” make change happen by developing effective interpersonal relationships (EQ). Neither of these models offer a full picture to what really happens in an organization.In this groundbreaking new book, change expert Siobhan McHale offers a third option: organizations are complex ecosystems that require a Hive Mind or Group Intelligence (GQ) to bring about meaningful and lasting change. We can learn a lot of lessons from how bees operate:Hard work: An individual bee spends its entire 40-day life span gathering food for the hive.Teamwork: Inside each teeming beehive an entire community works collectively to achieve shared goals.Role clarity: Every bee has a specific job, with the queen, drones, and worker bees faithfully playing their part.Resilience: Bees can overcome daunting challenges, including all the parasites, pathogens, pesticides, and climate fluctuations from Maine to Miami and beyond.See how a hive mindset solves many of the common problems all businesses struggle with today!
Copyright:
2024

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ISBN-13:
9781400246236
Related ISBNs:
9781400246243, 9781400246229
Publisher:
HarperCollins Leadership
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Copyrighted By:
Siobhán McHale
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No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Business and Finance, Sociology
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Bookshare Staff
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