The Art of Making Honey: A Fable About Turning a Business Around

“The hive is dying.” It is the third thing anybody says to Bea after they make her queen. Nobody has offered her a chair.

Forty-four days of a hundred-day clock have already been spent by other bees. She does not get them back. She gets what is left: fifty-six days to find a new home for forty thousand bees, and something for a hundred thousand bees to do.

Everybody is working hard. The numbers are getting worse. What Bea does about that, in the order she does it, day by day, with the clock on the wall, is the story.

Part Two is the playbook underneath the story, the Profitable Growth Operating System, in four repeating phases: Segment. Simplify. Zero-Up. Grow.

Nobody gets a clean start. You get a clock and a team. Read the story. Then start your own Day One.

Narrated by a digital replica of the author's voice.