A recent Time magazine article tells us that the bee populations are decreasing in the USA and an endemic is imminent. The reason for this is that we rely on Bee pollination for almost all the food we eat, from fruit, to vegetables and other foods. An example is that most fruits rely 90% on bee pollination to reach 'fruition' (pun not intended), many essential vegetables 80% and something as innocuous as almonds require 100% pollination from bumble or honey bees.
If we think about a parallel with business today, the Bee hierarchy is overseen by the Queen Bee, the Drone takes care of the reproduction inputs, but the worker bees actually do all the work. Now is this not peculiar with regard to my comparison? In business today we have the Executive Management (Queen Bee), Middle Management (Drones) and then the workers who actually do the work?
In terms of progress we are continuously retrenching workers either to cut costs, or install technology and all the while, right across the globe the same trends are in evidence, and the global economy is declining. At what level was the Global Crisis 2007-2010 most felt, at worker level of course.
Now workers (read Arab spring uprisings) or rather shall I put it; unemployed workers, are revolting against the Drones and Queen Bees - they too have stopped listening to these scientists telling them what they can or cannot do. Let Executive Leadership never ever forget at what level, the actual money is made.
