I am a Beekeeper and an Aerospace Engineer. I am naturally interested in social insects and have noticed analogies between large human organizations and ant and bee colonies. Some years back I was reading Holldobler and Wilson’s pulitzer prize winning book ‘The Ants’ and was startled by some profound information in the chapter ‘Social Homeostasis and Flexibility.’ It has changed the way I approach cooperative and business relationships.
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