High-Output Management

Biological Parallel

Ant colonies optimize output through ruthless efficiency: foragers follow pheromone gradients to minimize search time, workers execute tasks in assembly-line sequences (cut-transport-process-integrate), and the queen allocates larvae to castes based on colony needs—maximizing resource conversion into biomass. There's no wasted motion, no ambiguous roles, no meetings about meetings. Grove's framework mirrors ant colony economics: management is about maximizing organizational output (value created per unit time) through relentless removal of friction, clarity of roles, and intelligent resource allocation.