How to Do More with Less

Introduction

Do you ever feel like you've been so busy, but at the end of the day, felt like you didn't accomplish much? In my years of working in a corporate sphere, I have felt that feeling. I felt like a busy bee. A whole day would go by with back-to-back meetings and then at the end, I've scribbled up so many pages of notes that now take me more time to decipher and parse. It seems like now the real work begins. We weren't taught the smart way to approach work. We weren't taught to use our energy at the right places. So by the end, we feel burnt out. This book's aim is to teach you how to approach work differently, so that you are no longer the busy bee, with a million things to do, but instead a beekeeper, someone that controls the “bees” to get what you want.

And before we go into all of that, here's a bit of a science lesson, because bees are fascinating creatures.

Watch a single honeybee for a minute. And if you haven't, I suggest you take a moment to notice the next one that crosses your path. It wasn't until a couple of years ago when I watched a documentary on bees that I got to know this fascinating species. I used to just think that's how we got honey, and I was oblivious to its importance in our agricultural world where about one third of our harvest is possible because of the work of bees.

On its own, a bee looks minor, almost fragile. A single bee carries a small behavioral toolkit. It can sense smell and polarized light; it can fly and forage. But it's pretty ...