The Art of Making Honey

A Fable About Turning a Business AroundBy Bill CanadyRecorded Track
Length4h 5m

About this audiobook

“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.

Audiobook details

GenreBusiness and Economics
Length4 hrs 5 mins
Narrated byRecorded Track
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateOct 13, 2026
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Opening Credits
2Dedication
3Before You Start
4Part One. Chapter One: A Queen Is Chosen
5Chapter Two: Queen Bee Meets Her Team
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6Chapter Three: The Team Creates a Plan
7Chapter Four: The Critical Few
8Chapter Five: The Math
9Chapter Six: First Town Hall
10Chapter Seven: The City Council
11Chapter Eight: The Three Searches
12Chapter Nine: Turbo Meets the Customers
13Chapter Ten: Rusty Meets the Suppliers
14Chapter Eleven: Gabby Rebuilds the Workforce
15Chapter Twelve: Second Town Hall
16Chapter Thirteen: Bee Updates the Board
17Chapter Fourteen: The Debt Holders
18Chapter Fifteen: Results Debated
19Chapter Sixteen: The Pitch
20Chapter Seventeen: Decision Made
21Chapter Eighteen: Third Town Hall
22Chapter Nineteen: Moving Day
23Chapter Twenty: Our New Home
24The Fifty-Sixth Day
25Part Two. The Art of Making Honey
26Phase One: Segment
27Phase Two: Simplify
28Phase Three: Zero-Up
29Phase Four: Grow
30Earn the Right to Grow
31The Cadence
32The Three Roles
33What Success Looks Like
34The Thousand Days
35Where to Go Next
36It Is the Same System at Home
37The Last Instruction
38Five Questions
39The Instruments
40For Your Team
41Acknowledgments
42About the Author
43Keep Going
44This has been The Art of Making Honey

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